Merry Christmas to all
Submitted by Faulkner Family on Tue, 2024-12-24 07:09
I would like to wish all a merry Christmas. Hope you all get to spend some quality time with family and friends during this festive season. Hope all your stocking get filled with all the goodies you seek .
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RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
uncle
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Same for you and family Russ
Have a good one, and the same for all other fishos
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Adam Gallash
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Date Joined: 29/11/05
Yup
Same goes, best wishes everyone. Stay safe.
Cheers
Adam
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carnarvonite
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Date Joined: 24/07/07
Ditto
Ditto from all the other messages, best wishes to all the members and those who are looking in, hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year
Jackfrost80
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Date Joined: 07/05/12
Merry Xmas all.It's been a
Merry Xmas all.
It's been a very long and very tough year. Helping my sister and 9y old nephew escape a long term abusive relationship mid year alls the while battling severe anxiety, panic attacks and bouts of depression from a complete breakdown 15 months ago. Throw in finding a tumour on my adrenal gland and two months of testing and a close work mate taking his life in Feb.
The upshot is that my sister and nephew are in there own place as of this week, the tumour is benign/non-functioning and I have been diagnosed with adhd (who'da thought lol) and am treating that on top of the CBT I've been doing.
Being mindful not to turn my life on it's head and completely change the way I've done things for 44 years especially as I need to balance my own needs with 3 kids, wife and my family. All about incremental, sustainable changes so I it becomes a part of my life long term and I don't set myself up for failure as one complete nervous breakdown is enough for me in a liftetime.
Why would I share this?
Firstly as a way for everyone to have an understanding why I may have acted in the past on here. I do enjoy heavy banter but I know that doesn't translate well on a forum and get stuck in tit for tat that esculates... that isn't me and I actually hate conflict and it affects me long after.
Secondly and if anyone reads one part of this:
If you feel that something is not right don't ignore it, push it down, self medicate etc as it will fester and manifest into physical health problems. We will happily go to a physio for a sore shoulder but completely ignore it when we know we are at our best, not sleeping etc.
Hope ya'll have a great Xmas and I'm looking forward to some R&R.
Officially off the Pies bandwagon
Da pirate
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Date Joined: 03/05/15
Being a man .
Good on you frost . We all try to tough it out but
being a man doesn't mean suffering in silence?
I tried the self medicating thing for a long time .
and after years of it ? It just made things worse
and fester . So I pulled the pin on it completely
that was over 7 mths ago now. For a substance
you can buy when 18 and virtually anywhere at
anytime ! Alcohol is a killer. And if you let it !
it will take everything from you . I think if you
Start thinking to yourself you have a problem?
then more than likely you do . And admitting
that to yourself and friends/ family are the
first steps . I'm just glad I got out at the high
functioning stage. Merry Xmas all . Cheers
pirate .
Faulkner Family
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Date Joined: 11/03/08
That mental stuff is too easy
That mental stuff is too easy to push under the rug. I too suffered a breakdown with depression and anxiety. Going on the right medication can change your life . It can affect your own well-being along with loved ones.
Well done on getting things sorted . Hopefully you will have a better year in 25.
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
davewillo
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Date Joined: 08/09/16
Sorry to hear what you've
Sorry to hear what you've been going through Frosty but it sounds like things on the way up now.
Good on you for speaking out and the same goes for any blokes that do, as we were all taught as young fellas to just tough it out and we know that doesn't work long term. Fine if it's a passing thing but if there is a genuine issue then professional help is a must.
Someone pretty close to me is going though hell (and putting family members through it too) including a thankfully failed suicide attempt. It all came out of a serious substance addiction which was largely brought on by years of ignoring some obvious problems. Just speak to someone about it - anyone!
PGFC member and lure tragic