Nervous breakdown..

Having found myself sinking to the kitchen floor and totally unable to continue with the simple task of cleaning a cupboard...I still remember what it was I said: I can't do this anymore! Thanks to my family and a first class GP, I recovered. Mental illness can be a killer if there is next to no support.

I have had Two of the spells which jeni has mentioned of reactive depression and like soop was literally floored and difficult to return from,I am a strong person and the one who deals with all crisis and calls for support,sometimes a little think is the final straw,my last episode 8 years ago has left me quite fragile mentally and it dosent take a lot now to have me heading back that way.
I must say that you lot have been really supportive and helpful when I am having a wobblexxxxx

Should be a little thing...

How right you are soop there are times when I find it extremely difficult to cope. It is very hard when you try to be everything for everyone and have no time at all to "be" yourself.

Sometimes it just seems that nothing I do is ever enough and I have come very close to being burnt out.

I don't blame anyone but myself for the way I am.

There is no "blame", gillybob. The mind is a fragile place. Sometimes it gets hurt...as do bodies...when that happens, sharing the pain can assist the healing process.

soop, smol, gilly sharing is the biggest help

soop that is such a lovely statement,minds do get hurt as do bodiesxxxxxx

Deep sigh and broad x

Yes you are right Kali it is comforting when someone at leasts understands where you are coming from.

By blaming myself soop I mean to say that I know I am my own worst enemy. I find it impossible very difficult to say no,even when I have rehearsed it in my head a million times.

NellieSmol I doubt that we shall ever meet. However, thanks to Gransnet, we genuinely care for each other. When I was in a very lonely place [not so long ago] you helped to lift my spirits. The same is true of others. Bags sent me a hug-a-day. I value people like you.

that is true kali talking therapy is the best treatment and the feeling that you are not alone others empathise
soop gilly kali the survivors.

soop I'm here too.

To all survivors

Is there kali and a Smol for me too?

Kali A special, warm sunny especially for you.

butty take your pick (((( hugs))) sorry

OMG nearly forgot to wake GS up, he'll not sleep tonight then I'll be in bad books AGAIN bye

Bye for now, Kali. I really MUST tidy up outside.

butty for you and a
soop have a guilty secret psst down tell anyone,well I started talking to you lot after missing the opticians at 9.30 and got woken by them ringing to where nellie was,and this is the guilty bit nellie is still in the same place as I was 9.30 this morning,have done s*d all today,busy day tomorrow and Friday though

Good for you nellie I know where I would be too if I didn't have to be here in this gloomy, cold office!

Busy doing nothing
working the whole day through
trying to find
lots of things not to do !

I'm busy going nowhere isnt it just a crime
I'd like to be unhappy but.......I never do get the time

Here's a to warm and cheer you and a for your breakxxxxx

Thank you Smoluski I will thoroughly enjoy that and having one made for me (even if it is only virtual) is an extra special treat !

to you all!

It's not a medically recognised term though, is it? Just a colloquial usage that might well cover anything from a tricky afternoon to suicidal depression. Hard to know what someone means and I expect, more often than not, someone is exaggerating. Then it's likely that people might be dismissive about someone having a genuinely terrible time.

absent I'm really not sure whether it used to be a medical term or not, and I think the phrase has often been used as a catch-all phrase for an inability to cope with the pressures that present in day to day life. From my perspective, it often has historical reasons, which come to the fore when external problems collide with unresolved emotional issues. However, I view it as a serious, and totally incapacitating condition which can have serious consequences. Having a 'bad-day' ain't it.