Quote Originally Posted by Leaf View Post
After a very long wait, I've finally got an appointment with a psychologist next week. It's just for an initial 'assessment', which to my mind makes it a test that I might well fail.

Spare a thought for me next Thursday.
I hope tomorrow is the start of some genuine progress for you, Leaf. Depression typically takes a long time to get to grips with, but you have to start somewhere.

And I will join in RTS's "group hug" for Stagger. Reminds me a bit of the Book of Job: bloke who has everything, then loses everything; chapter 3 is an amazing rant where he lets all his suicidal feelings hang out. [Unlike Graham Breeze, who recently quoted 22 verses of the Bible in full on another thread, I will leave you to seek this out for yourselves.] I found this so refreshing when I discovered it, at a time when I was feeling a bit down.