[WillowTheWhisp]

I hope the moderators will let this stand and I hope that, despite having asked to be banned Chav, will still read this.

I would like to apologise for calling you an idiot yesterday. I should not have done that. I should not have reacted angrily.

I have seen a whole family go to hell and back when the husband and father had a break-down. I also saw people treat him with disdain and tell him to pull himself together, something which he was totally incapable of understanding how to do. Pills didn't cheer him up. They just turned him into an automaton and then left him addicted. Memories came flooding back of what they all went through at the time with his wife sobbing her heart out to us because he was no longer the person she knew and she was getting to the point of not being able to cope with it all herself.

Memories of people, who just didn't understand, telling her to cheer him up and telling him to pull himself together made me want people to realise that although depression cannot be seen by an outsider, and the sufferer may even seem to put on a convincing front to those who do not know them the illness itself is very real and very debilitating. What seemed to be a general dismissive statement of such suffering caused me to react angrily to flippant comments about depression. I should not have allowed myself to do that and I apologise for what I said in response.

However angry I was at your posts, I had no right whatsoever to call you an idiot and for that I apologise sincerely.