I agree. It was well written, honest, and comes from a place where he has actual authority.
Another way to look at this particular example is that he's providing an example of owning your sh*t, recognizing the consequences, and controlling your impulses. We all struggle with something. They will need to know how to own their struggles. It shouldn't be your entire identity, of course, but we mustn't toss the baby...
I completely disagree, if this was a one off it might be different, but it's a weekly pity party aimed at making his followers and family feel sorry for him.
He's utterly failed to help himself by refusing medication and talking therapies. He did try one set of antidepressants but he didn't like how they made him feel so he reverted back to doing nothing.
Going to zoom AA a few times during lockdown falls way short of helping himself.
He has the means to pay for private talking therapies but refuses to engage and would rather spend his money on plastic toys for his room.
Actions speak louder than words and he has no actions re helping himself. He should be sharing his thoughts with trained professionals who can help him move on.
He has spent his whole adult life wallowing in his issues. In my opinion he's not owning any part of his problems, he hides away in his toy cave because he can.
He knows his young children will read his words and they will most likely cause them anxiety. Who does that when they already have an anxious 13yr old?
He'd be owning his sh*t if he went to talking therapies every week and faced up to his demons. It would show his children he had a desire to deal with his problems. It must be a living hell living with him. We only get a snapshot and it looks and sounds dreadful.
His children's whole childhood has been spent living with parents who refuse to help themselves deal with their mental health issues. Going to the priory 20 years ago doesnt count as helping yourself here and now.
Re teaching his children, he has done the complete opposite of showing them how to deal with their issues in my opinion. He was part of the decision to remove them from school and to completely immerse them in his wallowing and mood swings everyday of their childhood.
It's obvious by his man cave that he either hides away in their from his issues or by nadias admission, he walks around the house making the rest of the family tread on eggshells everyday.
Nobody on any social media account is able to help mark resolve his mental health issues. He needs qualified professionals.
He's coming upto 50, he's brought 4 children into the world and he's made very little effort to tackle his demons for himself or for them.
He says he's given up drinking, that would be great if that was his only issue, but he has multiple massive issues. Since he opened the door into the families life his issues scream at viewers, a few words on Instagram is not owning or dealing with things.
He craves pity, he craves adoration. He NEVER ever gives thanks for the privileged position he's in (not working for a living, sponging off his wife, shafting the taxman by using every penny to indulge in all of HIS hobbies)
He needs to face his demons, needs to stop being so self indulgent, start to care for those around him more than he does his own ego and spend a significant amount of time talking to a professional rather than a bunch of strangers on the Internet.
He's spent over 2 years talking to strangers on the Internet, feeling sorry for himself and guess what, it's not working! It will never work.
He bully's and mocks his mother for her past misdemeanours but refuses to get help yo resolve them while she's alive.
The poor family deserve so much more, then theirs nadias issues that thry also have to put up with... It's an almighty mess, a few sentences on Instagram isn't going to solve anything. He's the most selfish man I know.
Inevitably his mother will die and he won't have resolved his issues with her via professional therapy when he's had years to try resolve things.
His last two children will invariably leave home and need years of therapy themselves to recover from their episodic childhoods.
Mark will be left with just his thoughts and Nadia... All because he chose to spend a lifetime selfishly avoiding sorting out his issues when he had more opportunity to do so than most.
I came to this channel because of what I saw re the behaviour of the Sawalha-Adderleys and their children. He's 50% of the problem and a few sentences on Instagram just doesn't cut it. He even needs an audience for his pity party! He's chosen the selfish do nothing to help himself route. No sympathy from me.
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