Suicide is not a good place to go in your mind. It is not the way to defeat Depression or Anxiety
If you or someone you know is slipping backwards with Depression of any sort, please reach out now, please don’t wait for tomorrow, do it now.
If you are within Australia phone Help Line 131114 and start talking and don’t stop talking until you have worked your way through the darkness.
Click this link for information to access other Emergency Contacts.
dids; is a dedicated support group of men (in Australia) whose immediate concern is to stem the present trend of male suicide due to the trauma of divorce or separation…
Although women are twice as likely to have depression, apparently men are four times as likely to suffer its worst consequence.
Although women attempt suicide three times more often as men, they are far less likely to complete it.
Why is that? ? ? ?
Does the fact that they actually talk with their friends about their feelings have a bearing on the outcome?
Actually, —- that fact could have a lot to do with it!!!!!!
Is Cognitive Therapy a natural part of a womans skills in communication with their girl friends?
Also it has been shown that Men tend to use more lethal means to suicide. Is that because they just want to prove they can do it and they just go and do???
Or is it because they do not talk about it???????????
Unfortunately MEN have learnt to hid behind their very own Mask.
Men tend not to talk about their thoughts or feelings.
You have heard the old saying, Men do not cry, Men do not have feelings.
Well guys, guess what, that is a load of bull shit we do have feelings. We can cry and we can have all the feelings we want and we can express our feelings.
We just NEED to give ourselves permission.
Unfortunately, some Men, for some reason refuse to allow themselves to admit they really are human and that they are hurting and are trying desperately to find answers.
Often the first time anyone else knows about the suffering and pain a man sustains from the pressure of Depression, or Anxiety or Panic is after he has taken his life. Suicided can be a silent killer and it needs to be researched, and demystified, not shunned.
Sometimes friends, Doctors or mental health professionals may have very little chance to recognize and treat a man’s depression. Sometimes the window of opportunity is to short.
Even with good supportive treatment for Depression or Anxiety and even while within the care of someone special, sometimes an unexpected and unexplainable, overwhelming force can just wash over us. There are three occasions when I have walked that line.
I remember, without warning I suddenly believed there was no other choice other than to succumb to my guilt. Suicide became my only escape from my anguish, the despair, the destructive feeling of being worthless. My constant sadness was beyond recovery. There were a lot of dark emotions that played with my logic while I was at that level of torment.
Fortunately I forced myself to stay active, I found things that needed to be finished. I screamed for help and found someone to talk with. I managed to delay my actions long enough to find an alternative action.
I should never make light of such feelings, but when I think about it now, I think it can not be very good over there on the ‘other’ side! As far as I know, no-one has ever come back to brag about it, and I know how much some blokes like to brag about things………
Suicide is not an answer. Look at the alternatives they really can be good and worthwhile if you let them.
Talk to the fellows in The Shed, sometimes we just need time. With a little time we can fight back and get on with life.
Sometimes the good side of life just needs a kick from you to get it started.
Be aggressive against the negatives of the Three Brothers. You remember them!!! Depression, Anxiety, and Panic.
You are better than each of them.
Come on start LIVING again.
And keep reading this ‘crazy’ little Web Site. If I can beat those mongrels – anyone can. And You can……….just tell them to bugger off!!!!!
Tell them Graeme Said.