Bohemian
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I am so interested in this but also feel a bit nosey, like this is their business and I'm poking my nose in. Mental health issues have so much stigma attached to them - I wonder if any of this family had felt able to reach out and get help, maybe all this could have been avoided
If it was a case study in a textbook it would be fascinating, Madge, but it's about a farming family who have just been through what must have been a very traumatic episode.
We've long been warned about the toll poor mental health has on rural families; including the tragedies of suicides and murder-suicides. It is often a tough life; full of financial, environmental and psychological stress.
Many normally mentally healthy people break down under the burden of excessive stress. They can develop chronic anxiety and depression, which leads to sleep deprivation, poor nutrition and excessive use of legal drugs such as caffeine, nicotine and alcohol; resulting in uncharacteristically bizarre behaviour when they finally break down; psychologically and physically.
What this family needs are not labels published in MSM but their missing father to be found before yet another tragedy occurs.