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MustardAndOnions said:
Wowsers! Out of nowhere this week and I’m abroad which ain’t helping

Completely hit me and the anxiety is fever pitch, now struggling to make simple decisions

Just trying to wait it out and hope it gets better, like an opening batsman seeing off the new ball

You think it’s something that’s just always gonna be there?
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My experience is, that it can come from nowhere, and is a chemical imbalance in your body. Fight or flight response, but it can be overcome with life style changes or short to medium term medication, how ever insurmountable to seems at the time.

I've read ahead a little but on your story and I think you're being to hard on yourself. Speak to your Mam bonny lad and just lay it all out there. She'll know what to say and she'll be there dlfor you.

Lads are shite at sharing their feelings, but that doesn't have to be the case with your Mam. She just knars.
 

Jonny5 said:
My brothers been really bad with stomach issues for a few months and tbh he looks like death has lost a ton of weight, etc. Anyway on Sunday he basically said he wanted to die the family kinda played it off but I saw it was genuine. Then today in lifes external mission to try and grind whatever spirit is left my employer have bent over backwards for an a client and chucked me under the bus. Even though that bunch of gits have basically been a complete prick to me. It's been a shite few years.

At this point the only thing that motivates is spite and crisp sarnies.
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Has he been referred to gastro about it?

Sorry to hear about the work situation. It's shite when that happens.
 
Jonny5 said:
My brothers been really bad with stomach issues for a few months and tbh he looks like death has lost a ton of weight, etc. Anyway on Sunday he basically said he wanted to die the family kinda played it off but I saw it was genuine. Then today in lifes external mission to try and grind whatever spirit is left my employer have bent over backwards for an a client and chucked me under the bus. Even though that bunch of gits have basically been a complete prick to me. It's been a shite few years.

At this point the only thing that motivates is spite and crisp sarnies.
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I used to always say the last few years have been shite as shite stuff happens all the time.

Then I realised that later in life I used to look back at some of those years as the food old days. Simply because the memories of the bad times fade and the food ones remain.

Think with life you just don't get runs where everything works out great, there's always some shite thrown in (to different degrees) but best always focus on the food things that are happening.

Awful about you're brother and obviously can't ignore that.

Work though, sometimes it's good to know your employers are just worried about money, forget them and adjust your work thinking to match, go make your money then forget about them, clock out and don't give two fucks about them until it's time to work again. Too many people treat work like family or something and expect loyalty but it's barely ever the case, just treat it as work and then sack it off and get in with enjoying your life.
 
Gennaro Savastano said:
I have the house to myself this weekend and I'm worried. Seems like the perfect opportunity to pull the trigger it seems.
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I think recognising it is a first step. But please stay with us. Plan something, anything that covers the danger time.
Work has been really difficult lately. Exhausted and having mood swings but I'm generally able to see bad days will pass. I'm really looking forward to the weekend as the nipper was selected as a mascot for the Smoggies game and I've not been to a game this season. She is buzzing. I've been struggling weight and my wallet is £300 lighter for the occasion though - small increments and all that 😄
That is a really bad edit by the board joining that post like that, sorry. I cannot undo it either!
 
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Speaking from my own experience, depression is more likely to develop if you’re neurodivergent (autistic, ADHD etc.) and it can be cyclic.

I’ve never been hugely suicidal myself but as I near my 30th birthday I am losing a lot of the hope and positive energy I had a few years ago.

I don’t have an active social life and only have a handful of friends from school and uni. I’m very isolated socially in general too thanks to not having a partner and living alone.
 
LetsPretendWeScored said:
Speaking from my own experience, depression is more likely to develop if you’re neurodivergent (autistic, ADHD etc.) and it can be cyclic.

I’ve never been hugely suicidal myself but as I near my 30th birthday I am losing a lot of the hope and positive energy I had a few years ago.

I don’t have an active social life and only have a handful of friends from school and uni. I’m very isolated socially in general too thanks to not having a partner and living alone.
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Have you got any hobbies? I do a lot of exercise and met some really good friends from clubs.
 
LetsPretendWeScored said:
Speaking from my own experience, depression is more likely to develop if you’re neurodivergent (autistic, ADHD etc.) and it can be cyclic.

I’ve never been hugely suicidal myself but as I near my 30th birthday I am losing a lot of the hope and positive energy I had a few years ago.

I don’t have an active social life and only have a handful of friends from school and uni. I’m very isolated socially in general too thanks to not having a partner and living alone.
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Many people have suggested to me that I am likely to be autistic, especially recently.
 
Gennaro Savastano said:
Many people have suggested to me that I am likely to be autistic, especially recently.
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Frustratingly, all the attention-seeking wankers (with pals, partners and functioning lives) who claim they have everything clog up the system so you have to go on a waiting list to get diagnosed.
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Walter Mitty tossers who'll smirk at real neurodivergent people while wearing it like a costume.
 
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S.S.R.. said:
Frustratingly, all the attention-seeking wankers (with pals, partners and functioning lives) who claim they have everything clog up the system so you have to go on a waiting list to get diagnosed.
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That's a bit disingenuous marra. The waiting list is due to the NHS being run on a shoestring and autism is still massively underdiagnosed in adults.

Plenty of diagnosed autistic people have friends, partners and functional lives.

The attention seekers are the ones who diagnose themselves and post it on their Twitter bios. Those who want to be tested or diagnosed are not likely doing it for attention.
 
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