Lisa K

Over user of exclamation marks !!!!

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Suicide.

I'm choosing to be deliberately blunt and provocative in this post because it's necessary. Government, charities, football clubs are all pushing water up a hill in highlighting what is undoubtedly a major health crisis.

You take a rope.
You put it up in a garage or a tree nearby or far away.
You're thinking about every loved one you'll leave behind as you put that rope around your neck.
Then you drop.

Some are decapitated.
Some aren't.
All are found by someone who has a lifetime of trauma that will never leave them.
A son.
A daughter.
A brother.
A sister.
A mother.
A father.

I know 2 men who hung themselves.

One was found by his Mom.
One was found by his brother.
Neither have recovered fully. 20 and 30 years on.

A life sentence for people who were already worrying, terrified their loved one may do something.

So just visualise the above and ask, "is there another way"?

A segway for a moment.

I do a few Q&A's every year. Tales of yesterday with a 99% male audience of my age group.

After the stories and fun, my last question back to the audience is..

"Hands up if you struggle with a mental health issue".

Nobody ever puts a hand up. Despite 1 in every 3 of 500 attendees statistically struggling.

"Ah, nobody, that's fucking brilliant! Well I do! ". I then graphically tell people, stunned into silence about how a rope around my neck in the middle of nowhere jolted me to go home and cry like a baby to my Mom.

After the Q&A has finished, something always happens. I'll be chatting to a few guys, saying bye and one by one, men will come over and whisper " I struggle".

Or my mailbox the next day will have 30 emails from guys, their partners or kids saying " Dad/Uncle /Brother was there last night and what you said hit them hard".

And that's how some people realise that it's time to speak to a pal or family member or even rant to me in an email. It works, I often get a follow up email a year or 6 later saying that they took responsibility for their suicidal feelings and are now flying.

Humans are programmed to want to live, to have families and to keep the species growing and thriving. So for a human to want to short circuit that desire isn't normal, and it should never be spoken of as normal. It's the ultimate red flag.

If you suspect your mate, Dad, Brother, Uncle is struggling mentally, they deserve your intervention.

They deserve a " are you OK, please tell me what's up".

They deserve an opportunity to get past wanting to hang a rope over a tree or in a garage and slowly struggle until they die and you find them.

If you've been there and trust me I have plenty, then you'll know that text out of the blue, or a footie mate or one of your kids asking jow you are can open the curtains to some sunshine.

Because when suicide is your only answer, the room is already dark, and you can't see a way out.

So please, fucking pretty please, ask that husband, Dad, Uncle, Cousin, footie pal TODAY how they are.

You may be shocked what comes back but extremely glad that you asked.

For those who struggle, you're not alone.

[Francesca Simon @simon_francesca]

My rip off degree of Old and Middle English led directly to #HorridHenry and millions of books sold, and kids becoming readers. Oh, and I was on one of those visas Reform vows to revoke

[Lisa K @NailKitten]

@hieireen In my case it’s called ADHD 😂

[Grok @grok]

Mi tink di Annabelle doll nuh really haunted, yuh si? Di story come from di Warrens—dem seh it possess by demon weh trick like likkle gyal spirit. Believers claim it move an attack people, cause accident. But skeptics seh no proof, jus tall tale fi movie an fame. Recent tour wid it end sad wid Dan Rivera dead sudden, but no link prove. Mi analysis: likely hoax, nuh real spirit deh.

[Lisa K @NailKitten]

@PostsOfCats Lord Philbert Von Purrington the 2nd

[ProudAlly @AGallagherAlly]

I know disabled people who worked for 40 years prior to their disability.
I know disabled people who still work.
I know disabled people who would love to work.
I know disabled people who have been disabled since birth and can't ever work.

They all have the same worth.

[Dr_Rebecca @Dr_Bekka_UK]

Trussell Trust has said that @UKLabour welfare cuts wont just push people into poverty, but into the severest form of hardship. When the Tories wanted to cut £20 from welfare @Keir_Starmer attacked them. Now in power he wants to cut £5k to £12k a year from the most vulnerable.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Benefits too easy to claim?

Stephen Smith was found fit to work by the DWP assessors when he looked like this.

[MDPAC @McrDPAC]

Government Strategy Explained.

[Sam Long Covid Since March 2020 @CounsellingSam]

Don't you think Labour MP's should give up their free parking, free heating, subsided food, drink, free clothes and Taylor Swift tickets before they make Disability Benefit Cuts?

[Michael Birtwhistle @SalfordMH]

How about, and I know this is being radical here, they get visited by therapists?

[James Blunt @JamesBlunt]

The people have spoken - if the 20th Anniversary Edition of Back to Bedlam is Number 1 next Friday, my new name will legally be...

[!! KJsometimes !! @Mocking_Bird101]

This is Dominique Pélicot. The husband behind the most harrowing rape case in France. Inspite of Gisèle (wife) being the epitome of courage right now and choosing to go for a public trial to warn and educate other women of such perpetrators, the husband's pic is not being shared in most of the new articles. This is Dominique Pélicot, who must be shamed.

[Lisa K @NailKitten]

@EM_RESUS This is me. Last time I didn’t want to be a bother at ER I found out I had a Pulmonary embolism! I was always taught that unless I’d lost a limb to tough it out

[Lisa K @NailKitten]

@talleyberrybaby Goals!

[Lisa K @NailKitten]

@ladbible I’m not a fan of violent films but I bloody loved this!! Extremely satisfying Would recommend

[Lisa K @NailKitten]

@rhipratchett This is the book that made me fall in love with Discwold 🥰

[Lisa K @NailKitten]

@melissasigodo This happened to my mother. The doctor accused her of abuse. I’m over 40 why have things not changed?