Only good thing to ever come out of McGregor was watching him get knocked out.

Yay!

This is the despair that your fellow countrymen are missing somehow. It breaks my heart. I can honestly say that in your position I’m not sure what I would do. I have been close to suicide many times. More than I can actually remember. For a while it was just a daily chore to make it to the next. Somehow I continued. I found a way to fight for myself. Eventually I found a new partner who didn’t treat me like an expendable bank card and crazy weirdo and along with them I built a good life. A hard life but a good one.

Hang in there. It can get better. I’m not sure what you do to turn it around but please know that other humans care about what is happening to you simply because you are also human. That it matters how you feel and what will make you happy. Don’t let them just take that from you. Go down screaming and kicking and biting the bastards.

I will not Americanize myself for your benefit. I will not remain silent when I see something that affects another human negatively. I will stand up for them as others have stood up for me. I will keep my humanity thank you and even fight for it.

I worked as a paramedic for almost two decades. I saw the outcomes of your joking and people’s negative attitudes towards those with mental health issues. I held the dead and dying, I comforted the sick and weak. I did my best to help them and failed often. It drove me into the same place as all those I helped at work. I won’t encourage that from anyone. Ever.

I’m glad you’re offended. Perhaps you’ll think twice next time

Have a great evening.

Sorry for my directness but I have many of the same problems this person speaks of. It is very easy for me to relate to them. The big difference is I am 50 years old and have dealt with this shit my entire life. To me, even joking about self medicating with booze when someone is reaching out for help is exceptionally offensive.

I am someone who lost years of my life, jobs, relationships, money, stability, trust and more to alcoholism caused by untreated mental illness that for most of my life was even frowned upon as a real medical condition and in many circles still is.

I can appreciate your point if view but I would really ask you to consider the seriousness of things as opposed to the levity of them when it comes to another human’s well being.

PLEASE DO NOT SELF MEDICATE WITH BOOZE OR OTHER SUBSTANCES.

You are Canadian and you have options. I self medicated with booze and lost most of my life to alcoholism because there was no mental health help for me then. It simply didn’t exist. That’s a terrible suggestion to someone having a mental health crisis. This person should be ashamed of themself as should those who supported the suggestion.

That and your parents should be there to help you. As I have learned from our interaction they do not. Normalizing this person’s ideas of morality is fucked. Please don’t listen to this bullshit.

People will care about you but this person does not. They are suggesting things that can only further hurt your.physical and mental well being.

Please don’t wait for the appointment. Push it. See doctors until someone takes you seriously. It’s a problem in our medical system across the nation that people with mental health problems often get ignored or forced to wait because it’s not seen as on par with physical medical distress. The feelings you are having and the fact you are reaching out is important. It’s a sign that it’s not ok for you no matter how much you try to normalize it in your own mind.

It’s ok to ask for help. It’s ok to be demanding for your own health benefit. No one will advocate for you except you when it comes to your health and mental well being. You can do this and it can get better. It doesn’t have to be like this for you.

Forgetfulness can be tied to both PTSD and neuro divergency. The brain is a complicated thing. It certainly sounds like the trauma you experienced from your arguments and treatment from your father could be a possibility for why you are feeling this way. I am no mental health expert for sure but I have worked in emergency medicine extensively and experienced these things in my own life.

It’s a tough world and the chaos that surrounds us now will weigh heavily in those with any form of mental illness or distress. Please just know you aren’t alone. There are many of us out here experiencing the same things and some of us have even managed these feelings and thrived within our own lives.

I am an old man. I have often felt like this a lot in my life. I also have had problems with PTSD and depression from my history. Within the past few years my kids have been diagnosed with various neuro divergencies and this has taught me much about myself and this way if thinking.

I have learned fairly recently that a lot of my feelings like this are related to the differences in my brain and a so called “normal” brain and learning about why I had this thought process really has helped me understand why this happens to me. It all was because I cared about my kids and saw the same things happening to them. I just wanted them to avoid all the mental anguish I experienced in life.

It has been so enlightening and mostly came from sitting with them during their diagnosis and treatments and learning about how these things are genetic (possibly why it’s so difficult to talk to your family about it as well) and passed from parents to kids.

Go to a doctor. You are Canadian I assume by your user name. Tell them how you feel. Ask for a referral to a mental health professional. Depending on where you live there may also be a mental health help line to do all that stuff so you don’t actually have to go anywhere.

Please take care of yourself. Should you find that I am someone you could perhaps talk to about your problems feel free to reach out. If not I encourage you to find someone. Keeping all that inside leads to more problems than fewer and can easily destroy your life and those you love when unchecked and unchallenged. You can do this! One step at a time and one day at time.

Sorry I’m Canadian. I don’t know all the stuff. Apologies.

Not judging just giving a different point of view. I was A very heavy drinker for decades.

Take some earplugs…please. and please don’t travel in or to Canada. We allow babies on planes here. Even crying ones.

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Fuck that. Who made you dictator of travel like Cheeto supremo?

But muh CAP_italism!!!

Keep fighting them!

LG as well in North America.

Our new washer (Aug 2024) has already been repaired once. Fried wiring harness. It’s Maytag.

No kidding. We also bought a new washer in August. Had a repair man in last week. The entire wiring harness was fried. He says it’s very common and we live in a very rural area. That appliance is basically brand new. Maytag brand.

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Personally I didn’t use an excuse. Just seemed a waste of time to hide like that. As bad as hiding the booze. I told folks I was an alcoholic and I had a really hard time quitting. It took me decades to even admit there was a problem. It was hard to do and some judged me for it but it helped keep me focused on my goal as everyone around me knew what was going on and my closest friends helped hold me to it by just knowing.

I am Canadian. We have a large German and Austrian ex pat community here that I am friends with. The Europeans were the most difficult. They could not even understand alcoholismand still cannot, though many of them are alcoholics themselves. “It’s just a drink” “there’s no harm in a little alcohol” “just try a little bit, it’s so good.”

Stand your ground. It will become much harder than just today. We understand what you will go through to make this happen. It isn’t easy but it is so worth it.

Canada please take note.

Just been flying through refrigerators because we can no longer find a second hand older model. 5-6 years on a ~$2500/cad fridge that you can’t even get parts for. That’s fucked.