Comments on: Sad http://itsamumslife.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/sad/ The ups and downs of mummyhood Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:37:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: milo http://itsamumslife.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/sad/#comment-2999 milo Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:17:29 +0000 http://itsamumslife.wordpress.com/?p=367#comment-2999 I know some days I wake up and feel it's not worth it, but then as the day goes on you snap out of it, I cannot imagine if that feeling stayed with me all day 24/7. I know some days I wake up and feel it’s not worth it, but then as the day goes on you snap out of it, I cannot imagine if that feeling stayed with me all day 24/7.

]]> By: caramaena http://itsamumslife.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/sad/#comment-2968 caramaena Wed, 07 May 2008 07:32:10 +0000 http://itsamumslife.wordpress.com/?p=367#comment-2968 I feel really badly for the train drivers. It must be so hard to know you were driving the train that killed someone and there was not a thing you could do about it. I feel really badly for the train drivers. It must be so hard to know you were driving the train that killed someone and there was not a thing you could do about it.

]]> By: missbliss http://itsamumslife.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/sad/#comment-2957 missbliss Sat, 03 May 2008 16:48:12 +0000 http://itsamumslife.wordpress.com/?p=367#comment-2957 Just posted a very long reply to this, but the computer lost it - mega grumpy!! Have tried to summarise below what I was saying, but it is inferior to my first explanation. I did once know what it was like to feel that way - thankfully now I can't. I've written about my own experience of depression. Once you're over it, the 'rationale', the intensity of emotion and everything cannot be summoned. People who are depressed often do have a family, friends, a support network and know logically where they could go to get help. But when you're depressed you often don't feel like you can seek help. It's humiliating to admit to the way you feel. You feel scared people will just tell you to shrug it off. You feel guilty about putting your emotional anguish on to someone else. Moreover, you feel unworthy of any help or support in the first place. The whole attitude towards mental illness needs to change. It's not shameful, it's not petty. It's not a case of talk + hug = everything OK. There needs to be more understanding and less stigmatising. Just posted a very long reply to this, but the computer lost it – mega grumpy!! Have tried to summarise below what I was saying, but it is inferior to my first explanation.

I did once know what it was like to feel that way – thankfully now I can’t. I’ve written about my own experience of depression. Once you’re over it, the ‘rationale’, the intensity of emotion and everything cannot be summoned.

People who are depressed often do have a family, friends, a support network and know logically where they could go to get help. But when you’re depressed you often don’t feel like you can seek help. It’s humiliating to admit to the way you feel. You feel scared people will just tell you to shrug it off. You feel guilty about putting your emotional anguish on to someone else. Moreover, you feel unworthy of any help or support in the first place.

The whole attitude towards mental illness needs to change. It’s not shameful, it’s not petty. It’s not a case of talk + hug = everything OK. There needs to be more understanding and less stigmatising.

]]> By: Izzy http://itsamumslife.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/sad/#comment-2956 Izzy Sat, 03 May 2008 10:59:45 +0000 http://itsamumslife.wordpress.com/?p=367#comment-2956 It seems impossible to come to terms with why someone would feel that life is not worth living and go the extent of taking their own life-I'm doing my psychiatry placement just now and I find it difficult asking questions about suicidal thoughts and plans but recognising any of these thoughts is so important in trying to help someone see that there is still hope no matter how bad things may seem. It seems impossible to come to terms with why someone would feel that life is not worth living and go the extent of taking their own life-I’m doing my psychiatry placement just now and I find it difficult asking questions about suicidal thoughts and plans but recognising any of these thoughts is so important in trying to help someone see that there is still hope no matter how bad things may seem.

]]> By: Sage http://itsamumslife.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/sad/#comment-2954 Sage Fri, 02 May 2008 11:42:54 +0000 http://itsamumslife.wordpress.com/?p=367#comment-2954 That touched on something I wrote after Mark Speight took his own life... it is truly sad that some people see death as the only way to stop the pain in their life and cannot get(or seek) help to deal with it. Sage That touched on something I wrote after Mark Speight took his own life… it is truly sad that some people see death as the only way to stop the pain in their life and cannot get(or seek) help to deal with it.

Sage

]]> By: Emma http://itsamumslife.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/sad/#comment-2952 Emma Thu, 01 May 2008 15:06:32 +0000 http://itsamumslife.wordpress.com/?p=367#comment-2952 Oh, that is so sad. I can't imagine what brings people to that point myself. Oh, that is so sad. I can’t imagine what brings people to that point myself.

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