@FitiverMin firstly, I just want to say thank you for sharing your story. Mental health needs to be taken seriously and you are so right just because you might look okay doesnt mean you aren’t suffering and in need of help. ?
I don’t personally suffer with mental health issues, but have a parent and a sibling who do. My parent has had severe mental health issues my whole life. I’ve seen my Mum be unable to physically get out of bed, wash and care for herself, even unable to feed herself during her bad days. I’m in my 30s now and my Mum can still be affected in this way. She has a social worker, but she’s only interested in supporting the social aspect of depression.. going for a coffee and cake, setting an alarm to get up and showered and dressed each morning. My mum can ignore calls from my siblings and I for days on end when she’s in the depths of depression, never mind meet a carer for a cuppa and a bun!
Just last week, my mum was struggling with her depression - it greatly affects her sleep and she goes from being up for 3 days to sleeping constantly.. she downed a bottle of wine at 7am in the hope of it helping her sleep. She then called the out of hours crisis line 6 times before hanging up... after this she called her social worker and left a message. That was the Wednesday and she didn’t call my mum back until 4:50 on the Friday night to say if she needed anything over the weekend to call the out of hours.
My sister deals with anxiety.. she takes medication for this. All be it a very mild dose but if my sister has a panic attack, that feeling something bad is going to happen she’s floored by it. She can’t get dressed, just wants to stay at home and hide away, can’t face anyone.. but to look at her you would never know it. She’s married with 2 kids and a nursing student..
This is the point when you are good and you’re feeling fine, outwardly you can look like you’ve really got your shit together. When you don’t “look” sick it’s hard for people to relate.
I genuinely hope that Rebecca isn’t using all this as a spin for some good engagement. Mental health is so important but when you look at what she is trying to post and then the stories Pat is putting up, not a care in the world. His stupid skits to try and seem like he’s so happy go lucky. Why is he not showing her more support? It’s such a sad state of affairs that now we have come to only expect the worst when it comes to these two. Even if she did do something genuine and sincere, she’s completely tarnished it with her past behaviours.