Burying my uncle on Tuesday 46yo
Youngest of seven kids
Been suffering for other 20yrs that I know of
He had support from family and friends but it got to much for him
Had everything going for him
I thought he was ok but it's was just a front from what my mum tells me
She's spent three months being there for him
He was getting help but he was in torture
I m shattered
But hope his in a better place now
RIP HARGS
I LOVE U

I would have posted this under "Heavy Weather".
"Shooting the breeze"? I don't think so, unless you want to consider Bodhi from "Point Break".

Everyone should open and read the beyond blue link
You see the ads on tv and see it in the papers
I've never bothered to take any notice until I saw it here
To late now

Saw the signs in my uncle but never new what they were until I read link last night

He stopped training
Wasnt going to work
Lost weight
Told me he had a stomach bug
But that wasn't the case

Learn the signs and MAYBE u could help a friend or loved one before it's to late

Another link I am finding useful.

www.beyondblue.org.au/who-does-it-affect/men

Thanks for the clip, patsken, I liked it.

Been there suffered that. It was a bad place and all consuming. In desperation I got in touch with "Beyond Blue"

They helped me so much, and after 4 years lying on the floor, basically unable to move.

They helped work out my problem, which was related to my skeleton [bones].

After a couple of operations, i was able to start fighting, and i did, like a punch drunk boxer

i managed to turn my life around.

It was too late for my marriage to be saved and my kids were alienated, but we got thru it .

I would be dead by now if it hadn't been for Beyond Blue.

i always talk about it all, because it can strike anytime. I saved a bloke a week ago who was suffering bad, and took a concoction of

prescription tabs. the cops had to break in to his fortified apartment [1,1/2] hrs to get in . he was comertosed on his bed, they say

within a hour or two of being brain dead.....pretty bloody sad. light affected him, the sounds in his head threatened, and everyone was

a problem to he.... he could not see his own problems