Just bumping it up..
Haven't been on here for a few years, I still remember the day we heard about DvDrip and thump.. Shattered this small community at the time, I remember the generosity and the fund started for Rips family.
After struggling with chronic anxiety in my late teens I'm happy to say that I can now happily do 99% of things anxiety free. Depression comes and goes but it's the people around us that can hep us through it, just got to be willing to ask for it. Takes a bigger man to admit he needs help than to take the easy way out, I've lost 4 friends now to suicide. It's not worth it, no matter how bad you feel, the people that are left behind are hurt even more..
I'm a pilot, and at the start of the year I contracted a rare infection (leptospirosis) which made me lose my dream job, literally thought I was losing my mind (meningitis), chronic back pain, liver failure, infection if the bladder, lungs almost everything.. It's taken 4 months of doing absolutely nothing apart from antibiotics, hospital care, gentle excersise to get back to semi normal.. A lot of old **** resurfaced anxiety wise and I got hit with chronic depression, lost my job that I worked so hard for, lost my father In law, moved back in with my parents and have been on my arse feeling useless..
But, I'm feeling better, I'm about to go back to flying in the next few weeks and life is good.. It gets better!
I always think of the poor kids and mums with terminal illnesses and it puts all my problems back into perspective.. Big time - women come and go, friends come and go, we only live once what's the point in living in fear or being depressed? It's a waste of time. But it does still happen, just got to find a way to tough it out, with friends and family.
Don't take the easy way out, nothing in life is easy, you have to work hard.
RIP to those we've lost. It's never easy, but it gets easier.