keep on keeping on

[greg wyeth]

Three of my many and varied interests include Australian Dressage, Queensland Rugby League and Mental Illness solutions. I'll cut out the bullshit and go straight to the reason of my post.
It really concerns me that some of you poor buggers are out there doing it tough. It gives me the shits how society can strut itself in its fancy high heels whilst there are so many honest and poor bastards out there deserving of a second chance. Would you believe that I have been trying to post an article on mental illness for the last 4 hours and either someone has stuffed it up on me or this ******* computer keeps bombing out. I am going to keep it short and sweet as my intro to dressageIT. I have had a nervous breakdown many years ago and I am now actually better. Not only that , but I love my life more after this happening than before. If you think that you may have no chance in this world, then that is just bullshit! Its just your bloody nerves playing up.
Heres my secret weapon: wear an armour called love. Bitterness will eat out and destroy your soul. With forgivenes comes the forgetting of the pain.
Hang in there all you battlers and know this. There is at least one person in this world who truly loves you.
GOD BLESS YOU!

[tilly]

Sensing a bit of anger there, Greg...but thanks for the post. I actually am going through a bit of a rough time at the moment & sometimes (not always, but sometimes!!) it helps to just be told to pull your socks up & get on with things. Cheers.

[Madeline]

Sorry to hear of hard times but I agree with you Tilly on the "pull your socks up" bit.
My Father has suffered depression since the 70 s and it is a very hard yard. It seems though when he has a job to do ( he is retired so that is not often) he seems to brighten immensly. It might just be organising a trades person to do a job around the house or left in charge of organising the car service etc but he is a different bloke when he has a project to get stuck into. He has not driven for years but recently the car had a flat battery and his wife was out so when the NRMA came and started the car they said " just drive it for half an hour or so and it will be right"
So off he went.....his wife came home, couldn t believe that he and the car were missing. He returned an hour later and seemed to have enjoyed his drive and was after all just doing what the bloke had said he should do.........
He and my sister recently decided to do some renovation work on my Mothers Gravesite, Well, he was on the phone explaining all the stuff they had to do, what they were going to do, when they were going to do it etc. He NEVER picks up the phone and calls anybody yet he rang me about 3 times over a two day period to tell all!!
So I think from a personal study the more activity in his life the less depressed he is BUT he has to be doing it not just letting it go on around him
I read a book once that asked if it was your funeral tomorrow what would you like to have done today, live each day like it was your last.
And Greg, man it annoys me when I when the **** computer doesn t do what it is supposed to do but that happens to us all.

[Sel]

Too right Greg. We can lie around and mope (which I've wanted to quite a few times) or get up and keep on going. Animals are a good remedy, esp horses. They make you get up each day as they needed feeding and rugging etc. Horses have helped me through some hard times so, I just couldn't do without them.
On a lighter note computers think I've got a magnetic field. So I hate them.

Sel

[greg wyeth]

I really think that I can be such a pain in the arse to some people a lot of the time. I can freely give advice, trouble is for it to be more effective then I should be holding a mirror to my face as I say it. Tilly is right when she senses a bit of anger there. The numbers of people on anti-depressants for example are truly amazing. Honestly, you cant tell me this system under which we operate is alive and well. We finally see the truthful side of a Prime Minister and his Deputy. Its just a bloody power trip for them. Stuff what the truth of the matter is! Lets just manipulate the media so as to keep the "Honest John" picture going. Our alternative Government is more of the same!
Heres some brighter news I heard the other day. In not too many future years we are likely to have fuel prices in the vicinity of $6 per litre. Dont worry too much about it though. If Bird Flu hits us then it could wipe out up to 50% of the population and the resulting slack of demand could see prices ease. No bloody wonder do I look for sources outside the ways of this world for some answers.

[Zephyr]

Hmm, I love life, never have a bad day, never have a bad ride. I know how lucky I am to be able to get up each day and ride the 4 fantastic horses I have, and to live the life I have. So far I've achieved every major goal I've set out for myself, and had done by the time I was 24. I've never had any life-changing event that made me think this way, I just live my life purely for me and to be happy, plus I'm rather lazy and have found stress, worry and anger to be rather exhausting, so I don't.

It's a mindset, I think you have to train your mind to be this way and look purely at the positives in life, don't dwell on the negatives. You have a gorgeous daughter, Greg, that you seem to have an excellent relationship with. I find it hard to believe you wouldn't be able to focus on the positives day in and day out. Well, thats my opinion, anyway

[greg wyeth]

I love your attitude Anita! Please dont get me wrong. I am definately love my life. I love my daughter so much. I love my son so much. I love my wife so much. I love my mother, my dead father, my many brothers (8 kids in the family) and sisters so much. I would not change one single thing in my life.
The thing that causes me the most amount of stress in my life is that I care. To those who truly love their life whether they be christian, muslim, homosexual or hetrosexual I say go for it! You must be living the life God has planned for you. My job is not to judge or condemn anyone. He works in mysterious ways, far above anyone here on earth knows. That includes the Pope, George W., John Howard or Osama Bin Laden.
Business, is for the business man. Politics is for the politician. Corruption is for the corrupt. SPORT IS FOR THE PEOPLE. I am sure that at last weeks State of Origin decider, a Christian stood next to a homosexual who stood next to a muslim who stood next to a business man who stood next to a politician who stood next to a corrupt person. I think when Queensland scored that winning try they would have all stood in unison and cheered and felt like patting each other on the back. For that fleeting moment the world for them was such a better place and they were all living in unison.
I dont want to cause people more stress by crusading against the ways of the world.
What I do want however is to let any person out there who may have some form mental illness know is that there is hope. Things will not always be as bad as they might seem. Surely there were times in your life when you gave love and received love.
Let these memories be your rock. When things seem to be going horribly wrong, remember these times. That is what the future can truly hold for you.
Anita, you are so lucky. Who knows what the future holds for you. If dark hours ever come upon you then you have the most wonderful foundation to help see you through it. Good luck everybody. Dont forget to enjoy your sport.
Love, Greg.

[Madeline]

Was it the homosexual or the Christian that asked the Muslim on the flight down about the bomb??