Many of you know about my struggles with mental health and with suicide
And also know some of my road to recovery.
It has been hard but it has been worth it. I cannot tell you what sort of wretched state i was in but it was not good and i got help which didn't work so I tried again.
I wonder if this runs in the family, i think my mum had depressive episodes in her life, but did not know what it was.
September 10th was World Suicide Prevention Day. Ironically, it is also the anniversary of my grandmother passing, I wish she had got the help i did.
Please know there is help. ❤
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@Classified speaking from my experience of being there for someone with severe mental health issues I would rather them “burden” me than suffer in silence like the people I cared about tried to at times because they didn’t want to burden me.
Yes it was tough at times to deal with it but I always reminded myself no matter how tough I was finding their issues that they were having it far worse than me.
It was heartbreaking seeing my ex wife breakdown again earlier this year. I really felt for her and In some ways even more helpless as I was not the one she turned to anymore.
@Caraxes That sounds very difficult. It's not your responsibility anymore, but that doesn't make it completely easy all of the sudden.
@BabyLonia Reason that I asked was that sometimes someone decided that they were a burden to me and whether I agreed with that or not didn't change their opinion. That was frustrating.
@Classified No it doesn’t make it easy like you said, however, I didn’t have the day to day strain as other people took that role. We do have a son together and I took full custody during the height of her challenges. Thankfully she’s in a better place with it all now 😊
