Paul
All good questions, and discussion on these matters is a good thing. I will answer based on my personal experience:
1-So how does an individual first suspect they may be suffering a mental health issue?For me, it was reading about others experience and realising "that sound familiar". Thinking back over 40 years and seeing what I had done and things I had struggled with since teenage years.
2-Does it build up over time and arrive at some sort of spectacular crescendo at which point it becomes starkly obvious? Maybe, maybe not. I think it was always there, bubbling below the surface and becoming obvious every few years.
3-Does it affect people who are marching on with a perfectly successful and happy life? YES!!
4-Is the onset brought about by some personal catastrophe such as financial ruin or a death in the family etc? No, but any stressful events can make it more obvious.
Malcolm
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Originally Posted by PCH
Great to see you back and feeling well again Allan!
I have a question that I could easily google, except that much of the info I’d find there is written by people with uni degrees and not much experience. So better to ask here I think.
That said, I’m not wishing to sound trite, stoopid or in any way disrespectful to those who have had or still do have these issues. If anyone takes offence, please just ask the mods to remove this post.
These are my questions...
1-So how does an individual first suspect they may be suffering a mental health issue?
2-Does it build up over time and arrive at some sort of spectacular crescendo at which point it becomes starkly obvious?
3-Does it affect people who are marching on with a perfectly successful and happy life?
4-Is the onset brought about by some personal catastrophe such as financial ruin or a death in the family etc?
I’ll leave it there and hopefully people with experience can just pass their thoughts. Once again, if anyone is peeved by my questions, please just ask that it be deleted and no hard feelings. I’m just genuinely interested to know more about this in a real world environment, and I know from this and past threads that there are many on here who have fallen prey to this one way or another.
Kindest regards to all...
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