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@Flax wrote:

A real life Sooty story:

Just a quick thank you to everyone on this thread. This is quite a long post, but Sooty needed to explain a few things to his friends. It will be worth your while to read, well because its interesting and true.

Believe it or not, Sooty has been severely mentally unwell for the last few days. This thread and my little bubbling away about whatever has probably helped keep me out of hospital. Seriously, had a discussion with my shrink today, chatted about hospitalisation, but we are over the crisis.

This thread has kept my mind occupied on our fantasy place rather than personal mental health issues. Even though I may not post a lot. atm I can't read, watch tv or basically do anything, and thinking about Sooty and his adventures has kept me safe and out of the pit of despair.

So thank you for just being yourselves....and putting up with Sooty going off on tangents. Its been a way of coping with real life stuff.

Hello @Flax 

I am so sorry to hear of how well you have been feeling lately.

Life can be so challenging without having to be in such a difficult state of mind at the same time..

I am choosing my words very carefully as this is a very vulnerable subject...

I am not a qualified practitioner and can only offer you my feelings of compassion and empathy for a very hard place to be..

It is reassuring for all of us to read your words that our efforts in writing played a part in helping you regain some clarity and strength resulting in no hospital stay at this time.

You have done the hard work yourself...we have given you an opening...you read and worked through the rest from there..

I do hope that you continue to feel a part of this thread which I believe is the foundation of how it works..

It is not about who  writes what or how they write..if at all...

It is about feeling a part of the merry troupe of friends who meet here at all hours of the day within a way that a virtual world allows..

I have written a post elsewhere trying to tie the latest update of characters and small parts of a story that they might like to use or an offer to write their own..

I have also come up with the suggestion of a related thread for feedback or even posts around not feeling well.

A safe haven for all..

I shall await the outcome..

one of your merry troupe friends💛💛

Even when the sun hides behind a cloud...

there is always sunshine to be found within our heart if we keep on looking..