Depression

[NP99]

Here’s another ‘pick me up’ for anyone who’s feeling down ...... well that’s how I experienced it anyway .... a bit different to NP’s

http://www.youtube.com/embed/uaWA2GbcnJU

You can't help but feel good when doing good in SE Asia. I've had some weird looks helping elderly locals in Vietnam, I guess its not what they expect a boofhead to do

[93patrol]

https://m.facebook.com/290611141314/...pe=1&source=48 This is Ben Quilty he is a painter and was asked by the ADF to head over to Afghanistan and paint the soldiers and what it's like over there. When he came back he has hung around a lot of the old diggers and has done a lot of paintings for the national gallery. He's a rockingham local and is family friends if my wife's parents. His parents spend a lot of time in SE Asia helping out orphans and building schools and the like. I thought I would post this up because it hits home about depression and how people deal with it. Please read what underneath under the painting Cheers Shane

This was uploaded from my mobile phone

[NP99]

https://m.facebook.com/290611141314/...pe=1&source=48 This is Ben Quilty he is a painter and was asked by the ADF to head over to Afghanistan and paint the soldiers and what it's like over there. When he came back he has hung around a lot of the old diggers and has done a lot of paintings for the national gallery. He's a rockingham local and is family friends if my wife's parents. His parents spend a lot of time in SE Asia helping out orphans and building schools and the like. I thought I would post this up because it hits home about depression and how people deal with it. Please read what underneath under the painting Cheers Shane

This was uploaded from my mobile phone

Those kids in SE Asia will melt your heart......they sell a lot of trinkets in the bars over there, I enjoy the price haggle with them, get them as low as I can get, then shake on the deal and pay double the original price.

[Stropp]

well sad to say but another old work colleague from the mining days up north has taken his life yesterday and left behind very distraught children, he had split up with his wife some years ago and last i saw him he was struggling as you do but its very upsetting to once again have to attend a funeral of an old mate

[krbrooking]

So sorry to here mate. Suicide is one of the worst things to experience, so many in answered questions. All the best to those left behind.



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[mudnut]

Very sorry to hear that, Stropp. They don't realise the long-lasting and sometimes devastating effect their action has on the people they leave behind.

[Stropp]

yes every time it happens those who really need help still do not reach out.

[BigRAWesty]

Never nice to hear.
Thoughts with the family that's for sure.
The big problem here is it'll get swept under the carpet. The big businesses will blame his personal life.
When really the hours they push for is sometimes unrealistic and very hard to maintain.

[Bloodyaussie]

Been tough of late dealing with all the issues of this year that seem to be compounding and getting very heavy on my chest.... does not help when some make idiotic comments and offer stupid advise that makes as much sense as an ashtray on a motorbike.

Yeah I have a sook but it is part of my coping method and the pom in me but its also out of shear frustration with the situation.

Something has to give as the strain is really starting to show on both my wife and myself.... f$£k this stupid car and f$%k the baggage associated with my mum........ going shooting tonight with some bloody good mates and hope that picks me up..!!!!

I seem to have given up on my years motto??

[Family4x4]

Keep pushing through the shit Johno.