@thepaullangley Some people have chinks of light to cling on to, such as nice house in a nice area, good job, happy relationships etc. Some don't. For some people, life is like being made to go to a party - every day - where you don't know anyone and don't like the music. Hellish....
@RadioX I remember, in the mid-80s, me & a friend getting a lift into town by his dad in his light blue Morris Marina. I'd been eating an apple and was holding it until we got out. My mate took it off me, pulled the carpet back and put it through the rusty hole in the floor...
@KathyBurke Hello Kathy. Just listening to your Desert Island Discs. When my mum was a girl she found her dad trying to gas himself with his head in the oven. Also, her brother died of diphtheria as a baby. Later on, she had four miscarriages. She never talked about any of it.