Good to share it Matt Please get her straight via therapy if you haven't done so already If you work with her using the easy classic Mind over Mood book it should open doors because I already feel you are also anxious over your good lady's depression ... How is that helping either one of you? Look it up on Amazon I still read mime ... I have to I am QPR promise yourself at least one laugh a day and sincere best wishes I agree with Sussex Brazil has the ears of millions that requires responsibility
I have worked in a secure unit and therapy unit with adolescence (8 to 17) and its scary that some have a primal urge to not live and attempt suicide. I myself have had to stop an 8 year old from trying to hang themselves with their dressing gown. It has given me a deep understanding and respect for mental health and the debilitating affect it has on the sufferer. No matter what family, friends or medical pro's do its sometimes not enough. RIP Robin and other non-famous people to this illness.
Thanks DT. The situation is complicated but I will definitely look at that book. No fear on the anxiety - don't think I've been anxious in my life (well social situations aside but that's just me). Thanks again and keep shining!
Matt, also a massive respect due to you Sir. What you have just posted there is very personal mate. I hope you and the future Mrs QPR Matt have the best possible future together.
In the midst of an ocean of crap on this board at the moment (and I don't exclude myself from contributing to that), many of the posts on this thread are a credit to those who wrote and shared them. Respect to all.
Thanks mate but no credit due for posting about someone else's problems. The only thing I will say is that I'm not ashamed of what she goes through and am very proud of her - who she is and how she battles her demons. If people ask about her at work, I'll tell them too. To deny what she goes through would defeat the purpose of publicising the illness in general whereas keeping it as a virtual taboo as has been the case historically, much to many people's cost.
Cheers Matt, I get and totally respect what you are saying here. Please accept my humble apologies if my post was not very well thought out my friend.
The problem is that depression is not a mind set or something you can just snap out of..........it is a real, genuine, debilitating illness. Medication helps but tbh it is the same as any other physical illness.............. the only difference is you can't physically see it unlike a physical injury. If you have never suffered from it you will never ever have the slightest understanding of what it entails. I speak from experience having been a sufferer for years following a breakdown. You learn to live with it, take your medicine but it never ever leaves you. Supporting QPR doesn't help it at all !!!
Thanks Grinning..............very much appreciated. I always try to explain the illness to people using a Steven Hawkins analagy. Steven Hawkings has a brilliant, healthy and vibrant mind but a poorly body....I am simply an inverse version .......poorly mind but brilliant, healthy and vibrant body! That may be the medication that makes me think that about my body though!!!!! ( according to the BMI I should be 7 foot 6 for my weight so in fact have a height problem rather than a weight one!) but you hopefully get the drift.
It never leaves you is exactly right ... you have to adapt to live with your story However most suicides IMO affect other people's stories hence my opinion that has to be seen as a core selfish act The mind is everything IMO and pity can confuse the issue inside Think of it simply IMO we are all going to die and on each of our chosen days nothing that has gone before will be relevant We are all born and we all die to a story ... it's what we do between birth and death that makes the difference IMO Terms applied to me in my story ... Mad, Out of your mind, Crazy are all places i have seen and I have been lucky and focussed enough to train my mind back ... some people of course don't have active minds in the first place and that is a very difficult issue to understand. I believe today that none of us are in real control of our minds anyhow and i see depression as a spiral or a stuck record. A reboot is required ... as said you must recognise the simple pattern that depression operates within and you must STOP this pattern before you can RESTART and train your mind eventually to recognise when the spiral STARTS again and it will as it never leaves. Laughter is by far the best drug out there but can't be enjoyed with JOY ... There is a simple process to achieve this but requires a focus ... like anything FOCUS is a key within any task or battle IMO artificial drugs made by people who think they are too clever often confuse. I take drugs as most on here do but they are not aware what the word drugs encapsulates. Drugs do control us for good and bad but in my experience Drugs for depression is a patch and wastes valuable time getting people back to having the time of their lives. If you are in a routine then it could be said you are taking drugs i.e.: doing something because your mind says you have to do it ... you are in a circle pattern Anyone up for changing? DO IT Head to Burning Man 2015 Prepare to self express and give I gave away everything in 2001 and never regretted it because I rebooted since then a new life and a new story and since then better things have been given to me
Back to Alan Brazil for a moment. You can't have a go at Alan for talking about something that he does not understand - even if he thinks that he does. That is his problem and hopefully he will receive an education somewhere along the line. Whether he is big enough to go seeking that education is another thing. If not, it might take a while.
