Historically I am one of life's quitters. If a job or relationship isn't working, I walk away. I don't have any 'dyfalbarhad' or staying power dans anglais. I felt slighly guilty after my last blog post thinking that I might have insinuated that an English mindset is a bad thing. A certain English mindset is a bad thing, the mindset of the Eton educated Tory toff aka Boris Johnson and David Cameron. I think this way because I was educated with such people and perhaps I could have gone that way. Instead I have nurtured a simmering resentment to such types because thy have been arrogant and successful and I have been humble and a failure. 'And the meek shall inherit the earth' is a biblical lie. Show me where this has happened in real life please? These men are driven by the greed is good of Gordon Gecko!
Mental distress transcends national boundaries and the depressed man in Peebles feels a similar anguish to the woman in Eastbourne. The teenager with suicidal ideation in Welshpool is suffering the torment of the damned as much as their counterpart in Waco, Texas so its futile to insist that we are different because of national boundaries.
My psychiatrist said that if only his patients could realise how much they actually had in common, we share so many of the same anxieties and concerns and we have to go to a third party to sort them out rather than each other because we are not emotionally equipped to talk about feelings and emotions. We can talk about the weather and the football. I hope that the weather stays fine for my walk along Offa's Dyke and I will be thinking about the football. I will also be thinking about the people in Peebles, Eastbourne, Welshpool and Waco. (Notice all four places are in the Capitalist white west. I think about people in distress in other countries as well of course but am a firm believer that social inequality causes mental distress)
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