Dealing with depression - suicidal thoughts - Join the conversation (including helpline details)

[Christoph1945]

I recently had a couple of tough days with brain fog, fatigue, and irritability but realised that wheat, gluten, alcohol, and some e-numbers had been allowed to slip past my normally tight dietary controls.

Things were not helped by acute lack of exercise, due to arthritic knees and a ruptured Achilles tendon.

I will drag out the static exercise bike today and use it to get my blood circulating and perhaps pep up the old brainbox a wee bit.

 

[czechmate]

Welcome Florence

 

[czechmate]

I wish you recover back to your normal good health. May god be with you..

Thank you.
Reedley looks like an amazing place to live

 

[Christoph1945]

I hope you feel better now?

I hope you feel better now

Thanks for the good wishes.

Easy solution ...... just backed off from consuming what I already knew was bad for me but 53 years ago I was like twelve-gauge with a hair trigger and a faulty safety catch; all of which took me to some very dark places and hurt many others.

 

[czechmate]

Woo hoo…… it’s March

well… that was a moment of optimism… now it’s April; and ITS STILL FECKIN WINTER

 

[Christoph1945]

well… that was a moment of optimism… now it’s April; and ITS STILL FECKIN WINTER

And bluddy raining!

 

[kiwi pom]

well… that was a moment of optimism… now it’s April; and ITS STILL FECKIN WINTER

At least you're sliding out of winter.
We're sliding in
Could do with some rain mind.

 

[dragonfly]

You can have all of ours!
It's getting beyond a joke.
It's seriously getting me down!

 

[kiwi pom]

You can have all of ours!
It's getting beyond a joke.
It's seriously getting me down!

I joke about it but one of the reasons I left the UK was I couldn't handle the long, grey, damp, miserable winters.
The sun makes a massive difference to mood, dark in the mornings at the moment as the clocks haven't changed yet, getting out of beds a struggle.

 

[Christoph1945]

You can have all of ours!
It's getting beyond a joke.
It's seriously getting me down!

It's all down to you bluddy farmers; you go praying for rain and are never specific on location and ammount. If a chicken farmer was found dead in his henshed, would the police automatically suspect foul play?

 

[czechmate]

I joke about it but one of the reasons I left the UK was I couldn't handle the long, grey, damp, miserable winters.
The sun makes a massive difference to mood, dark in the mornings at the moment as the clocks haven't changed yet, getting out of beds a struggle.

This last 5/6 months has been extraordinary

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

If a chicken farmer was found dead in his henshed, would the police automatically suspect foul play?

 

[Robt]

One of our forum members. Please all be aware of what you post online. There are some nasty things on here sometimes. Luckily he has been found

 

[Chae1]

Fudge sake.

Never know who will be next.

Bound to be a lot of people feeling down with current pressures. RSABI were doing a push to check up on each other last week.

 

[Bob the beef]

2 young fellas under 30 taken from this neck of the woods in last 3 weeks

 

[Christoph1945]

Grant that God would give us the wisdom and sensitivity to know when to intervene and the patience to wait upon those who are struggling against the slings and arrows of everyday farming battles and burdens.

 

[choochter]

I had to say grace at a do I was at recently and this is what I chose

Thank you for our food in a world where many walk in hunger
Thank you for our faith in a world where many walk in fear
and Thank you for our friendship in a world where many walk alone

 

[Bury the Trash]

I'm just re reading Doug Avery ..'.The Resilient Farmer' as it happens. There's a few video's of Him out there but one with him and His wife Wendy ,an interview on RNZ (tv) that is interesting watch / listen .
The book ,well also I like the large print ,easy on the eyes when the eyesight isn't what it was .

Looking after the 'top paddock'

Doug and Wendy Avery came close to losing everything a few years ago. The farmers from Grassmere, in Marlborough, were hammered by drought for eight long years. Eventually Doug struggled to function under a cloud of depression.

www.rnz.co.nz

Some generalisations yes but some good lines of thought .........
'course it always worth repeating and noting again, that people are all different and approach life in different ways , therefore their probs and challenges come in all sorts of different ways none more or less important than any other .

 

[kiwi pom]

I bet that hurt to make.
Glad he's ok, so sad when families fall out.

 

[CPF]

Yes . He’s got some big bol locks doing that.
I have been a listening ear on two occasions, and it took them a lot of courage to speak out.