It’s funny how your perception of the world changes. On Sunday I was walking to Church and happened to decide to walk past my old child hood haunts, I was surprised by how much nostalgia and emotion lay there. Just walking past made me year to be able to go back and experience it all again. Everywhere I went I was able to attached at least a dozen experiences.
As I sit in the local cafe. I can’t help but think of how much ha changed over the years. Field have gone and houses have been built, shops have changed name or have been taken over by larger corporations. Then I realised not only had the place changed but I had as well.
2011 was the hardest year ever and all I can say is if it wasn’t for the support of my family, friends and church I wouldn’t have managed at all. As the years went on and the depression got hold I became more shielded from what was going on around me. I fell into a pit and couldn’t scramble out.
Last year was a crossroads it could have went completely differently but luckily for me it worked out the way it did. If any of you feels low, tired and can’t be bothered with the world, if you are becoming more distant from the ones you love, if you feel you are unable to face the world in the morning and can’t be bothered to get up. Seek help, make the that decision to acknowledge the problem and make the commitment to fight it. I was forced to make that decision by circumstances beyond my control.
The story of 2011 is a long emotional story and one that I’m not ready to publish although my last blog of last year has a summary, I just urge anyone who feels depressed to get help, it may be medication or counselling or like me both, but you will never regret it. Things can and will get better.
