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How I Overcame A Recent Mental Health Crisis
Fighting my way back to positive mental health
I honestly thought I was past this. Having an unexplained severe sink into a mental black hole was something that hadn’t happened to me for probably over a decade. But 2022 has been a strange year with family members becoming seriously ill and my son moving out, all culminating in the black bear rearing its head in my life, late in the summer of 2022.
I can even pinpoint the day it started. It was one of those scorchio days we had in the UK this year and I was on retreat in Glastonbury.
It should have been a great day, but it wasn’t. I remember that day the safety catch on my mental health failed, and I could feel myself sinking into an abyss, seemingly with no bottom and no walls.
My head lost its stability, and my life lost its safety net. I’ve had to work hard to get it all back.
I’m well into my second year of sobriety and life had been so good. I’d been riding the pink cloud for months so to lose that was not only bloody awful, but it also meant the old faithful of drowning myself in booze wasn’t an option.
Well… it was an option that I mulled over and over. An easy fix. A quick escape. But I had come such a long way with my…
