Mental Health And Physical Pain This is where mental health and physical pain are about to collide. For 3-4 months leading up to 15th Sept 2019 I had reasonable mental health stability. I was holding down a 32hr per week job as a carpenter. I had moved into my own apartment, and had a company…
Suicide Prevention Hi, as we all knew, Thursday 10th September was ‘Suicide Prevention Day’. A day where the whole world was united in the sharing and expression of grief over the tragic loss of love one’s to suicide. Here In New Zealand we lost 685 lives to suicide for the 12 month period ending in…
Hope…
It’s such an emotionally loaded word.
It is also a concept characteristically hard to define. It can be even harder to apply practically in our own lives. We all know the stats of NZ and Aus suicides and have experienced the strong undercurrent of depression and isolation. All too often people cannot see hope – all they see is their circumstances, and that includes myself.
I have a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder type II, Major Depression and Generalised Anxiety. It has been a roller-coaster journey which has certainly shaped me into the person I am today. Fitness has been one of the 8 key areas I’ve build back into my lifestyle/routine to help me maintain stability. Let’s take a closer look at what that looks like…