Mental health and the importance of talking...
We all have demons in our lives. Addiction, self harming, uncontrolled aggression and many more besides. They make parts of our lives hell on earth and have the ability to reduce the strongest people to a mere shadow of their former self. I know many people that go and see a counsellor, myself included, in the hope of exorcising these malevolent entities from our heads, because they have no right to invade a happy and healthy mind, spreading poisonous tendrils, probing into our most precious and happiest of memories. Last Thursday I went to my counselling session and I got asked a few standard safeguarding questions relating to my safety. The question that caused me to fear for my safety, and stop my therapist from forming words for a moment was pretty straightforward. "Dave, on a scale of 1 to 10 how likely is it that you will attempt to self harm or end your life?" I sat back in my chair and put my hands on my face, I hesitated for a few seconds and asked myself what the po...