This article about Mental Health during Corona disturbs me

Very, very disturbing and incredibly sad. Agree with you, I know many people personally that are struggling right now.

Not many know me here irl but I’ll fess up to seeking help. Between one kid moving home from the dorm and now back out, one kid graduating college and moving home due to can’t find a job in his field (but working at the family farm), and just other things topped with covid, I just didn’t care anymore if I lived or died. No plans to ever have harmed myself but who cares about living?

What got me to find help: One day I told my husband and one of our sons to take me out back and just shoot me (I had likely watched a JBE press conf that day lol). I just felt it didn’t matter whether I’m here or not because the kids are grown and don’t need me and I refuse to live the rest of my life with this covid crap restrictions.

I agreed to finally give medicine a chance and don’t regret it. Am I all good? No but I’m much better and it’s a start.

Suicide
Government conspiracy
Claiming credit for things said by others for 6+ months

The attention whore trifecta. Impressive.

^Yep.

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ry having covid and issues before this. Idk how I can go on. Feel so weak .

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Is this a real post? Are you ok, man?

I know it’s been rough on a lot of people. Especially the 30 plus million that lost their jobs, businesses, homes, etc. However, I’ve kind of enjoyed having the kids around particularly because they are young adults in college and I worked many long hours and was often gone a lot while they were growing up. Seems like my family has become tighter through all this. We cooked meals at home, went fishing a lot, found yard projects to do and it has been fun. Naturally things will go back to normal one day or at least I hope they do but the family time I’ve cherished so under terrible circumstances I’ve been blessed to make lemonade out of lemons. But reading that article I certainly have empathy for those that are struggling. A lot of my friends have been struggling. Thank God I could do my job from home. I can’t imagine if my job was not deemed essential. The sheer thought of not being able to pay your bills much less eat has to be terrorizing especially if you have a wife and kids looking at you to be the provider. A lot of people earned more money on unemployment. That wouldn’t knock a dent in my monthly bills nor would some stimulus check. During the recession starting in late 2007 it was polar opposites. My industry was in the toilet for years and it was really tough to make ends meet. I certainly can sympathize with people suffering mental problems from the China virus.

I’ve been open about my issues on here. About 6 years ago I started getting dizzy spells in the afternoon at work. I would get clammy. I had to pull over on the way home once. I’d get nauseous, would just want to sit down and do nothing. After some tests, a neurologist said I had stress and anxiety. I never felt this way outwardly, but bottling issues up hurt me. I’ve been on meds since, and feel much better. With that said, I still have bad days and hours.

It comes out of nowhere. Sometimes I feel like it’s the end of the world, and we are doomed to live like this forever. I’ve relied too much on sports for my outlets in the past, and not being able to attend games and travel to the ballpark has been killer on me. It’s selfish, and to many, it’s insignificant. To me, it’s important. Several days a week are like a roller coaster of emotion.

It’s a real issue, and has no business being overshadowed by BLM and other bullshite during a very ‘real’ time.

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Is this a real post?

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No, its not.

What I’m convinced of, and come as a shock to some, but imo, we’re overlooking one of the most powerful natural combatants of diminishing mental health, which is a true epidemic in our nation, psilocybin. There are clinical studies going on that could lay the foundation for using it as a treatment for mental health issues, and I believe years from now we’ll look back and wonder why it took so long before it became a mainstream alternative medicine for anxiety, depression, and all sorts of mental illnesses.