I'm saying, I wasn't the only person who felt that way [laughing]. Well, yes, so it was sort of like self-help groups in the, well it was the Manic Depression Fellowship, a local group, but I think now it's called Mood Swings Fellowship and they're not the same…. Yeah, I think the ones where you go in person is… rather than just sort of going out with a group of friends or acquaintances or whatever, if you go to a group for depression, people, you know, a lot of the groundwork is already done, plus you don't have to make any effort there. You might have somebody who's not feeling so good one week who doesn't really, you know, doesn't...is not able to contribute a lot but it's nice for them, and it's not judgmental and you can share experiences, you can just have quite a lot of humour with things.
Why is that important, the humour?
The humour. Because you all, I think you all know, you've all got that in common, really. I think I'm probably thinking more of a manic depression one. I've never actually been to a depression group, I have to say, not in person.
In manic depression there's humour around?
If people are a bit manic, it can set people off. On the other hand it can also not be very nice for somebody who's depressed. If you're depressed you don't want somebody ...who's high. But there again, if you're the high person you can't understand why everybody's not joining in. But if you have a good facilitator then they can help, which we did, I have to say. |
