Having suffered from depression myself, attempted suicide and only just yesterday lost a good friend to suicide it is a tough one. In my period where I’m not depressed it is all too easy to see how great my life actually is and how there is plenty to hold on for. However, when the depression kicks in again and as I start to get more and more down and start to hit “rock bottom” again I cannot see all the wonderful things in my life, all the negatives in my life overtake the positives and I begin to see negatives that I might otherwise have not. It starts to seem as though there are more negatives than there are positives and slowly start coming round to the idea that I might be better off dead. I was lucky that where I was living at the time that the NHS services were excellent and got involved really quickly. However, there are areas in the country where Psychiatric care is not as great as what I received and that is where problems arise. It is where the Ambulance Service and A+E Departments need to pick up the pieces (like they always have to where care is substandard) and I’m sure it becomes frustrating for the staff.