@pilotbex Not weird at all! I’m a firm believer in things happening for a reason and that often good can come from bad, if you are open enough to allow this.
About 10-12 or so years ago my lovely husband had a breakdown. He was in a very responsible, stressful job. He was seen by a Community Psychiatric nurse and one of the first things she said was ‘you won’t believe me now but this is the best thing could have happened to you’. Well she was absolutely right! He had 11 months off work, then returned in a different role, and retired 2 years later. He did quite a lot of mindfulness online etc.
Since then we just pootle about like a couple of loonies (he’s 66 now and I’m 64) spend a lot of time eating cake in cafes, going to the cinema, walking and looking after our grandaughter one day a week. He was forced to look at his life and to change it for the better. You now have an opportunity to do that for yourself, and you have the time to decide how you can do things differently. Apart from anything I don’t know how I’d have managed since I was diagnosed if he was still working!
Here’s a photo I took yesterday of him and our grandaughter. It brought tears to my eyes as it says everything about that’s good in our lives now.
