10/09/2025
Our Facebook is normally filled with funnies and dogs, however, the dog training industry hasa high percentage of people who struggle with their mental health. Today is world su***de prevention day, working in mental health and children's services has shown me the best and worst of peoples stories and life experiences.
I've recusitated people who feel they have nothing left in life to live for and been hated, shouted at on their recovery for doing so, for successfully keeping them alive until paramedics can take over.
I've been first on scene to a jumper and been surrounded by grey matter, blood, screaming public and public filming someone's life ebb away as I'm doing chest compressions to the sound of car horns beeping because their journey is held up by someone blocking the road.
I've seen and been with the family and friends left behind struggling to make sense of their loss and had nothing more to offer but to listen.
I've been present while police forensic teams examine bodies before they're taken to the morgue, watching the indignity of it knowing the person would hate every minute of the personal and physical intrusion.
I may be flippant about death, I may have a dark sense of humour, I may seem like I trivialize, these are my coping mechanisms I've developed that keep me mentally strong enough to face the stories I hear, to read the reports I read, to look back at incidents I've been involved in and to ask questions that are so painful they reduce people to tears as part of my job.
If anyone on my friend list, my family, my friends, my students are struggling, is suffering, feels like they cannot cope, has feelings of harming themselves, is feeling like there's no point to life anymore my door is always open, my phone is always on, I'm always ready to talk needs help in finding a service, to listen or just sit, there is nothing you can't talk to me about.
It's ok to not be ok!
