thank god for lifeline

i wanted to commit suicide yest and rang lifeline, they were amazing and put me in touch with invercarg mental health. im alive today and they changed my meds and im starting to feel a bit better. i have never wanted to kill myself ever before, had bouts of depression all my life. i did take about 8 pills but they just gave me a high, partner hid the rest from me. i wish i was normal aye
hope all is well with you guys xx

Great to see you are still with us in the land of the living and good on you for having the sense to seek help.

glad to hear that you phoned lifeline, hopefully your life will never do that to you again.

You sought help and that is good

Sooo pleased you are still with us and feeling a little better

agreed pp

Biddy, congrats for having the courage to phone and talk with them, and also for making contact with a mental health team. That is huge stuff hon, so please, don't beat yourself up over anything, you deserve to treat yourself much more kindly than that. Truely, and I'm never wrong on important stuff like that.

If you would like to I dunno, have a yarn someday or whatever, you are more than welcome to email me anytime - my email is patq60@xtra.co.nz.

Before you come down too hard on yourself, Biddy, please remember some of the amazing things you have done? You had the courage to move your Home from the far side of the planet to NZ and thats a huge thing. I'm picking that amongst other things, you're missing family, friends, familiar sights, sounds and probably tastes, even.

Please, Biddy, allow yourself to recognise what you have achieved and be kind to you - I know its very hard to; but you have had some pretty major upheavals in your time and it would be more surprising if you were saying everything is perfect and peachy.

Normal? We are. All of us. If one in five of the general population has some form of mental illness, then I'd say we are quite 'normal'. You included, hon.

Pat.

hey biddy

how are you today?