At the risk of showing my signature haughtiness, you are currently using this here internet thing. Let your fingers do the walking to your search engine of choice and type in your locality and “men’s mental health services” or various combinations of the above.
And don’t rule out the Samaritans who despite their name are a faith neutral organisation. They will listen to you non-judgmentally and should be able to point you in the direction of peer support.
If you get stuck PM me and I will let my fingers do the walking for you. The tubby bitches could do with some exercise 😃
While we are on the subject of talking let’s not avoid the biggy.
When I was hospitalised with pneumonia I was plopped onto the respiratory ward. Way wayyyy off in a separate room we old wheezers would have our quality coughing time disturbed by the sound of a man crying out. Naturally I asked what was happening. I managed to get from one of the nurses that a young man in a similar situation to what Warb, myself and you have experienced had had enough and took his mum’s insulin pills.
One thing about the internet is you read forums like this one and people write stuff about how the prequels make them suicidal or how the want to kill themselves because a fan edit is taking too long.
On my way to having a camera shoved into my lung I was wheeled by the guy’s room. He was in his twenties, physically fit, conventionally attractive in normal circumstances but the nurses couldn’t keep the guy still enough to brush his hair or shave his chin. His muscles and tendons were in perpetual tension. He was covered in sweat and the human distress as be screamed touched my soul more than anything I’ve seen before or since.
Talking, it doesn’t solve everything but it does keep the light of life on long enough for the chemistry to change. If that guy had grabbed a phone instead of the wrong pills he would have a chance at a life with good days in it.
I don’t direct this at you in particular but at anyone reading this at any time. Talk about what is on your mind and listen when someone talks about pain.
Health is a road we wander up and down on. This includes mental health. If you find yourself in physical pain you go and tell someone and they help you deal with it. Emotional pain, mental pain, is the same thing.
Help is out there, seek it, use it get better and pass it on.