The Reason

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I’ve written before about mental health. Any form of depression is a difficult illness to live with. A hidden condition, the sufferer’s struggles can feel very isolating. However hard life seems, there is a reason to live. If you can’t uncover your own reason, please speak to somebody who can help you find it. I’ve included links to some of the many support organisations at the end of this post. You are never alone.

Finding myself in a reflective mood recently, I turned to writing as a means of expression.

poem, depression, reflecting

Support Services:

CAMHS is used as a term for all services that work with children and young people who have difficulties with their emotional or behavioural wellbeing. Local areas have a number of different support services available. These might be from the statutory, voluntary or school-based sector, such as an NHS trust, local authority, school or charitable organisation. Parents, carers and young people can receive direct support through CAMHS.
Childline is a service provided by the NSPCC and provides trained counsellors to support anyone under the age of 19 with free advice via email, telephone, or even 1-to-1 chats.
Family Lives (formerly Parentline Plus) has reams of information about all things family related, including handling mental health illness.
The national charity, Mind, has a number of local branches – including Swindon and Gloucestershire Mind, for example. Mind offers direct support and advice, as well as signposting to other organisations which can help.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children offers advice, and immediate telephone support.
Samaritans provides emotional support to anyone in emotional distress, struggling to cope, or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.
YoungMinds is the UK’s leading charity championing the wellbeing and mental health of young people. YoungMinds offers advice to those who suffer from mental ill health, and their parents and guardians.