When Kevin Braddock hit rockbottom,he had every intention of killing himself. He recounts what happened next – and reveals why so few men ask for helpIt was a Monday when Robin Williams killed himself three years ago – Monday 11 August 2014. His death was shocking even if in hindsight it shouldn’t have been a surprise that the world’s funniest man might also be the most sorrowful, too – a person despairing to the point of ending it all.
It’s a date I remember well, or because I’d spent the preceding day trying to accomplish the same thing. I was in the psychiatric ward of the Berlin hospital which I’d been manhandled into by friends the day before,and I was waiting to see the doctor who’d asked me to promise that I wouldn’t cancel myself.
Facebook allowed me to ask for back, but any recovering Ive done has been social in the original sense of the wordContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com