Newbie saying hi to everyone

[Dwyer_the_Depressed]

Hi all, have joined the site. Like everyone here I have my own personal demons that I contend with every day. It has been good to read other members accounts of what they go through. Being a single guy in a country town it can be hard to get out and meet new people when you would much rather be safe at home with the curtains drawn.

To everyone out there, I hope you get through today and find atleast 1 thing to smile at every day.

[Sivle]

Hi curtains drawn sounds tempting i dont know if you are on medication.?

i am on medication and it has helped me enormously

[Peppermintbach]

Welcome to the forums, Dwyer 🙂

Thanks for sharing a little of your story. Like Silve, I can also empathise with wanting to hide from the world, drawn curtains and all. You're in understanding company here.

Kind thoughts,

Pepper

[Dwyer_the_Depressed]

Hi Sivle and Pepper, yep I am on regular medication. It helps most of the time, but like most of us I have good and bad days. my work involves regular contact with clients either on the phone or in presentations, so when I finish for the day or on weekends when I don't have my son, it's "YAY I'm home alone, now close these curtains, put the tv on and tune out the rest of the world time"

[Guest_128]

Hey,

just saying hello,

personally I hate whatever your job is.

Country I love

Whats ya hobbies?

Dory

[Peppermintbach]

Hi Dwyer,

It sounds like home is your safe place. Tucked away from the stress and pressures of the "outside" work.

I hear you...those safe places and moments of respite are important. I personally struggle to get out of bed (takes me roughly 3 hours to get out of bed each morning...no joke there) so I can empathise with you in my own way.

Kind thoughts,

Pepper

[Peppermintbach]

*outside world (not work)

Sorry, autocorrect

- Pepper

[Dwyer_the_Depressed]

Hi Dory,

I do actually quite enjoy my work, and last year I pretty much had a full on mental collapse. My employers have been absolutely awesome about my mental health. I work as an insurance broker based in Emerald. (If your not a local, get a map of QLD, put your finger smack bang in the centre and your pretty close!!)

When I have the motivation, I love a bit of off road 4wd fun, nothing too serious as I am usually on my own, and have to be able to get to work on the Monday...... I do a bit of dirt bike riding occasionally as well. I can happily waste a lot of time just staring up at the stars on a nice clear night pondering where I came from (we are all essentially made up from star dust!!) other than that, the laziness usually kicks in after doing the washing so I generally spend the weekend watching movies.

Other than doing laps in a fish bowl getting excited every time you see a loaf of bread for the first time, what are your hobbies?

Paul

[Dwyer_the_Depressed]

Hi Pepper,

Yep, home is definitely my safe place from the world. I fully get the whole trying to get out of bed debacle. It takes me a bit over an hour to get up, have a couple of coffees, and try to get the brain kickstarted and functioning so I can get ready to face the day.....

Some days it all goes well..... Other days, I get as far as coffee, checking clothes are ironed, showering... and back to bed. I am very fortunate to have extremely understanding employers, that have basically taken the attitude of "whatever it takes to get you through till tomorrow is fine with us"

Sometimes the body clock gets out of sync for a week or so, so it can be nothing for me to hide away all day, and then go to work at night instead... Thankfully not many clients call in the middle of the night so I actually get an amazing amount of work done then.

[Guest_128]

Ok dude you asked for it,

My car is a Troopy, I am woman, loooooove fishing,plants,animals,cooking,shooting,manual work,ie renovation,oh did I say I married the marfia,

And oh yeah I could drink you under the table.😂

Dory

Why can't you go to the pub? Make contacts for your interest???

Not a real attraction but yeah still very female.