We’ve had these threads beforehand, and when I have commented (and through my own admitted ignorance of the subject). I have had the wrath of Lucifer chucked back at me from others calling me crass, unsympathetic and all the rest of it when stuff like this is discussed.
Can I fully admit I do not understand anything about mental health issues, the most I have read into it is stuff about ex servicemen and shell shock as it was once called, then PTSD.
It must be a bloody awful thing and I respect the hell out those guys for life changing suffering caused by serving their country.
I should maybe not comment on other type of mental issues as I neither have knowledge nor understand anything about them, but this is a forum and I’m entitled to…so apologies in advance if I ■■■■ anyone off.
Everybody deals with ■■■■ in life differently, and maybe because of the way I am able to deal with stuff myself, reflects my ignorance on the way others do.
I personally in life have had the same crap chucked at me as everybody else, but on top of that I have suffered financial bankruptcy, loss of my home and at same time trying to provide for a family and all the grief that brought, which was the lowest point of my life. (Well over it now btw, but will never forget it)
I’m not saying I’m better than anyone else, but I just got my head down, dug my heels in and got on with it, and in life in general and in most cases, I’m in the fortunate position of having nothing that phases me, so based on that I rightly or wrongly find it hard to understand how others react differently.
My initial thoughts are along the lines of pull yourself together/get on with it…(yeh it DOES sound crass and unsympathetic, and maybe ignorant to some… 
) and I suppose it must be difficult for those who can not.
Genuine question though…Is it mental health stuff, or state of mind, attitude and methods of approach to problems (or lack of) or are they all the same thing?
The latest modern thing is bi polar, is EVERY case genuine, or a bandwagon that many attention seekers jump on…I know of at least one personally who seems to use it as an excuse not to work, and who has always been a dramatist attention seeker for as long as I’ve known him
Again apologies in advance…but we have one guy saying he’s been diagnosed as a manic depressive 
, and another saying he attempted suicide.
I admire these guys for both admitting it,.and trying to help them selves, but the elephant in the room is asking is …In cases such as that, is driving a bloody great 44 tonne truck with all the potential negative and tragic scenarios that could bring, an ideal occupation for guys who are susceptible to these type of serious (and unfortunate) issues.
A guy with a heart condition or a diabetic is disqualified from holding an HGV licence, so what is the difference here exactly?
Again not trying to offend anybody, but I need help in understanding these sort of things, which is likely blindingly obvious to those who suffer from it.
As for the tramping thing, I ain’t surprised some are depressed as trampers the way they approach the job, which I have said (far too) many times on here before.
I would last about a month doing it the way some of you do. 
which is something that was unlikely to happen a few years ago