DEPRESSION HELP.  Pressure Relief Valve.  Tell your story.

Bet you never expected to find a topic like this on a “Biker” site! This is supposed to be a “Silly Site” cataloguing my old business, “Desperate Dan’s”. “Desperates” is here due to popular demand. All these years after I shut it down, people still wanted to know about it. The reason I shut it down was that I just couldn’t cope with the pressure of it anymore. I didn’t want to make up a story about why I decided to close it. I believe in telling the truth, so, at the end of the “History” section, I revealed I’d had a Nervous Breakdown. After I’d written that, I felt a lot better. There had been rumours going around that I’d either done a runner or gone bust. Now folk can read the truth.
I intended to expand on the “History” section a little more in the future, especially about my depression and the hell I went through, hoping I could make a few other folk realise they weren’t alone. Then I got an unexpected helping hand.
PaulTT  wrote into the forum quite openly, saying how he’d gone through the same shit. Other replies quickly followed, and myself and Yoda, after several long conversations, decided to “Pin” the subject. The letter from Ziggy stunned me. He suffers severely, and had never even spoken to his wife about it. But he wrote his piece, and felt tremendous relief. His wife rang me to say thanks. He’d opened up and was a different man. Same with Mad Richard…he’s able to talk to people who won’t laugh at him.

Talking with Yoda again, I decided to open this new Section

On these pages, you can tell your story in as much or as little detail as you feel like doing, about the hell you’ve been through, any help and support you got,  how you feel now, things you did etc.
Nobody will be able to comment on your story here. You can remain completely anonymous if it helps, we will NEVER reveal your identity. Or, if you feel up to it, you can say who you are.
The “Pinned” topic will still be on the Forum, on the “Say Hello to Desperate” section, so everyone can still chat, but these pages are where you can get rid of any burdens that have been troubling you. I’ll be writing mine, “No Holds Barred”. If this page helps just one person feel better inside, then the “Desperate” site will have served its purpose.   Chris Ireland and Yoda.