Sydney MP Alex Greenwich has opened up for the first time about his mental health struggles since being targeted by former Labor leader and NSW upper house MP, Mark Latham.

Mr Greenwich said he had been dealing with anxiety, sleeplessness and post-traumatic stress disorder which pushed him reconsider his political career.

He successfully sued Mr Latham for defamation over a graphic, homophobic tweet in 2023, and was awarded $140,000 in that case.

The member for Sydney in the NSW parliament, who was first elected in 2012, had called Mr Latham a "disgusting human being" after pro-LGBTQI rights protesters were attacked while demonstrating outside an election forum event, which Mr Latham was attending, in Sydney's west.

Mr Latham responded with a tweet targeting Mr Greenwich that graphical

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