And perhaps reflects a personal decision coinciding with the birth of her children and enjoying the luxury of being a full time mother until they reached school age? The difference between not being able to secure employment and choosing not to compromise work and family life is more than feasible for some parents
Exactly. Nobody knows what is going on in the mind.
We try not to convey anyway. Unless actively suicidal and a risk, we try to refer on to mental health services, who will call or visit the patient the following day. In London, we have a mental health car with a mental health nurse and a paramedic, but there aren't many, so ordinary ambulances still go to a lot of the calls. In Nicola's case, it sounds like it was just the police anyway though. Tbh, I just find it all rather sad. It's put a completely new spin on the whole thing for me.
Yes, it's hard to grasp for those of us who have never been suicidal. I've been at rock bottom, and although it took years of struggle to recover, thankfully I was never suicidal. My dog is my whole world, I put him first in everything. He's my reason for getting out of bed every morning. He's very dependent on me because of his vulnerabilities, and my worst fear is that I would die and he'd be left all alone. I just find it unimaginable that I could deliberately put his safety in danger.
"...the work we have been doing might show that Nicola has been online..." are her words. Not what you are quoting on your original post. To me they are saying, or the words they might better have used, are "...the work we are doing might make it look as though Nicola has been online..."
And I think you have highlighted an excellent point of a scenario such as this being a prime example of the kind of judgement and speculation that will arise from exposing such personal information, and that such negative revelations do not move the case any further forward to finding her
Like having two children, one of whom is 9!
Or it might just be the type of person he is, rather than because he's worried about Nicola specifically. I absolutely know from experience that I'm the type of person to be a little worried at about 10 mins late, when it got to 15-20 mins I'd be freaking out no matter who it was, especially if they hadn't messaged me saying they'd be late.
Yep. I don't think many people really understand it who haven't experienced it. When you're at the point you are overriding every natural instinct your body has for self-preservation you have descended so far through rock bottom that trivialities like leaving a dog by the river really are of secondary importance.
I think people are mishearing due to her accent. She says 'might show Nicola as being online'.
NB and PA did the walk regularly at this time. PA said in his interview that you see the same people each time on the walk. IMO NB knew who would be around and that someone would find Willow quickly.
To be fair I don't believe he's inviting himself on TV. His opinions are sought after due to his involvement in the search and how that could have been better directed had he had a greater knowledge of what he might have been dealing with and other aspects of evidence he might have looked for or been alerted to
His reputation is at stake and maybe also he feels he wasn't given all the facts and was therefore unable to conduct a proper and thorough search. Maybe he is aware that given a possible different state of mind of the misper this may have lead his search in a different way, as he says, there are possibly now different identifying clues that could lead to her whereabouts.
