{"id":8342,"date":"2023-02-24T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T10:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2023-03-07T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T11:54:08","slug":"health-wellbeing-underpants-outside-samaritans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8342","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Underpants Outside &amp; Samaritans."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"236\" height=\"175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_6727.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8341\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you sh*t your pants, you don\u2019t wear them over your trousers. That\u2019s one of my mental images re why people tend to try and hide depression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a good long spell of, dare I say it, genuine contentment and happiness, or at least some of that, plus plenty of more everyday equilibrium, ye olde Black Dog has returned, as a drooling ravenous and cacophonous wolf-pack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years I\u2019ve called the Samaritans a number of times. When I\u2019m at my wit\u2019s end,  and feel I have nowhere else to turn. I don\u2019t want to further burden Teresa, or family, or friends. Everyone has enough troubles of their own. And besides, I don\u2019t want to be that depressing baleful broken record nobody wants to hear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most times I called The Samaritans in the past I\u2019d hang up in disgust part way through the call. Feeling that it was not helping at all. Maybe even making things worse? But recently I\u2019ve called them in a spate of desperate moments, including twice in quick succession yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this time I was just venting. Maybe I was simply just much worse? So much so that their service <em>did<\/em> actually work for me. Thank goodness they are there to listen. I really don\u2019t know what might\u2019ve transpired without that safety valve. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you sh*t your pants, you don\u2019t wear them over your trousers. That\u2019s one of my mental images re why people tend to try and hide depression. After a good long spell of, dare I say it, genuine contentment and happiness, or at least some of that, plus plenty of more everyday equilibrium, ye olde &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8342\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Underpants Outside &amp; Samaritans.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2ay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8407,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions\/8407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}