Anxiety/depression

[Tomshardware]

"Been through bad time lately with suffering with this. Dark thoughts as well. I know some posters on here suffer with this. Anyone come through the other side of this shit?

"A number of posters have been yellow carded and told to stay off this thread unless they have anything constructive to add.This is a thread that has been very useful to so many, for any other posters with scores to settle, argue on another thread. This thread is sacrosant.Thank you"

[normannomates]

Listen in.. You are here temporarily.. A speck on the arse of the infinity Your only purpose is procreation.. That's it. You.. as an individual.. mean fook all..

[normannomates]

Mop top.. We all have losses. What is this? A competition in who is more fucked up? Maybe brexit will cheer you up? Reckon brexit has fucked up likes of Leonard.. üëç

[normannomates]

Bunch of girls you lot..gawd help us if we had another world war.. Most of you soft lads would be fooked Special mention for Leonard.. Keep trucking and all that

[Hani]

Diet & exercise and sleep helps hugely and cutting out bad habits. When the Black Dog chases you kick it in the bollocks!

[Bungo]

alfs barnet 3:58 Sat Feb 1 I make you right.

[alfs barnet]

"One of the hardest things to go through when someone close to you has killed themselves is the morbid fascination and excitement that some people have with it. People thinking they had the right to turn up at the inquest to see what happened, like it was an episode of eastenders. That ""jumper"", or the person hosed out of the front of a Eurostar train was someone's son, daughter, mother, father."

[bruuuno]

"I used to know a fella years ago who was a tube driver. He said if you hit a jumper you got six months paid leave, if you hit a total of three in your career then you got to retire on full pension"

[Son of Sam]

"Been reading this with interest, its time to join in , having watched that 90 minutes Im seriously depressed"

[Westham67]

True alfs

[alfs barnet]

Not 100% sure that this is really the right thread to discuss the right and wrong way to kill yourselves...

[Cheezey Bell-End]

"My friend used to work on the underground as well. Seems the platforms are constantly monitored for anything out of the norm, and they kill the power of it looks like someone is going onto the track. Told me he once arrested a post op transsexual who wanted to die because he couldn't have his dick back. He regularly had to attend scenes where there was blood and brain spattered on the wall. Personally, I think it's a highly inconsiderate way to kill yourself. Drivers aren't soldiers and aren't paid to kill people and get a medal."

[Westham67]

Bungo 11:34 Sat Feb 1 I would say that would be London Underground

[Westham67]

"I have seen the results of a few jumpers and an accidents. The railway and cutting tunnels as the 2 most dangerous environments to work and play in What people do not realize is when you are standing on of next to the track you cannot hear a train coming . If you have your back to on the track itself it will be the last thing you here At 125mph a body explodes . The procedure for trains and workers on track is the train with blow the horn and you acknowledge by raising your right, basically to let the driver know you are aware there is a train coming your way I was walking through Harrow and Wealdstone station and the way the driver blew the horn I knew there was something wrong and I walked back and there was a leg in what we call the 4 foot , the middle of the track. I was working in Kings Cross platform area and they took all the passengers off of the platform and brought a train in and there a hole where a head hit the canopy ribbons of light blue cloth in the cloth and a red mist down the side of the engine"

[Bungo]

"On balance, that would seem the better way to go!"

[Cheezey Bell-End]

"He told me one about someone who got hit square on by a Eurostar at speed. Seems they have a nose cone that opens up to reveal a coupling unit for when they join trains together. Seems the forces involved drove the body, in liquefied form, into the nose cone. So they basically opened it up and hosed him out."

[Bungo]

"Cheezey Bell-End 10:59 Sat Feb 1 When my wife worked in various London A&Es, the paramedics she knew had many stories about jumpers. Apparently it is not uncommon to still be alive when run over by a train. The weight seals the arteries and stops a lot of bleeding. It's when they back the train off that they quickly bleed to death."

[Cheezey Bell-End]

"I have a good friend who is an inspector in the British Transport Police. He doesn't talk about his work much unless you ask, but once he gets started, has many interesting anecdotes. He currently heads a team dedicated to suicide prevention. In purely financial terms, each suicide on the railway costs the rail company about £1.5m, whereas this team of 8 costs £600k a year, so even stopping 1 jumper is worth it to the company. It seems that when someone is killed by a train, the ambulance people and fire brigade don't want to get involved, so his team have to retrieve the remains. Sometimes the body is intact, sometimes it is disintegrated and scattered over miles of track, but other times it gets wrapped around the wheels and he has to get in there with a bone saw to cut up the body, photographing every step for the benefit of the coroner. Occasionally, one will turn out to still be alive up there. He said the worst ones are when the person's family go to the station to wait for news. Seems to prefer that to getting back into IT though."

[Cheezey Bell-End]

"A think a lot of us have a condition called disthymia. It's a constant low level depression that becomes your normal state, but can turn into something more serious depending on circumstances."

[Tomshardware]

Fair enough Oxsaw.

[Alfs]

"When I was first diagnosed with depression I felt a little ashamed and only told my partner. A month or so later, with the medication doing its thing, I went to a meeting with a producer I'd known for some time and she commented that she'd been worried about me as when we last met I seemed out of sorts - though you seem a lot better, she added. So I told her. She was also a Samaritans volunteer so I knew she'd keep it confidential. ""!'m taking Seroxat"", I said. And as quick as a flash and with a big smile she said: ""So am I. Great, aren't they""! All my shame lifted. If Stevie, a very attractive and successful young woman could happily admit it, why couldn't I? The more people I told the more others told me that they too suffered. It really was a matter of a problem shared is a problem halved. If you look at it logically, depression is caused by the lack of serotonin entering the brain. Why should anyone be ashamed or embarrassed by that? Diabetics are deficient of insulin though there's little stigma there - but what's the difference? Oh, and Stevie went on to beat cancer and is a happy (still thanks to Seroxat) mum of two."

[Alfs]

"When I was first diagnosed with depression I felt a little ashamed and only told my partner. A month or so later, with the medication doing its thing, I went to a meeting with a producer I'd known for some time and she commented that she'd been worried about me as when we last met I seemed out of sorts - though you seem a lot better, she added. So I told her. She was also a Samaritans volunteer so I knew she'd keep it confidential. ""!'m taking Seroxat"", I said. And as quick as a flash and with a big smile she said: ""So am I. Great, aren't they""! All my shame lifted. If Stevie, a very attractive and successful young woman could happily admit it, why couldn't I? The more people I told the more others told me that they too suffered. It really was a matter of a problem shared is a problem halved. If you look at it logically, depression is caused by the lack of serotonin entering the brain. Why should anyone be ashamed or embarrassed by that? Diabetics are deficient of insulin though there's little stigma there - but what's the difference? Oh, and Stevie went on to beat cancer and is a happy (still thanks to Seroxat) mum of two."

[Mike Oxsaw]

I think the general consensus is that we would rather chat with you than about you.

[Tomshardware]

"Thanks sxboy. I'm getting the help I need, GP has been good, I've also started some online CBT. I've been doing some running and going to a yoga class. I've had some better days where I can see hope for the future. Still have bad days and bad thoughts but I like to think I would talk to someone if things get very bad. If Norm is struggling then I hope he feels he can seek help, but having a pop at people on this thread isn't helpful to anyone. I speak as someone who didn't use to understand mental illness."

[Sxboy_66]

"Tomshardware 7:48 Mon Jan 13 Ignoring the clueless 'man up' knobheads, I've been there mate. Step one is go and see your GP. There's lots of help available and accepting it doesn't make you feel useless. I know it's been a couple of weeks since you posted and I missed originally. Hope things are looking better but if you need help please just speak to someone, it's the hardest step but one you have to take, Good luck."

[Leonard Hatred]

The bloke's an embarrassing pissed up twat who needs to deal with his drink problem.