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[Uncle Globnasty]

and hopefully there will be more understanding of depression - it is not, as some people appear to think, just being very sad.

Hopefully it will also make people realise that having all the trappings of wealth and security (not that I have either!) make one immune to depression - a disease that is the biggest killer of men under 45 in the west of Scotland and probably elsewhere.

A complex and much misunderstood problem often exacerbated by the greed of corporate pharmaceutical companies and their need to push their wares on ever increasingly over-burdened GP's who are only to happy to dole them out like sweets  to an unsuspecting and often ill-educated public.

SSRI's  (which includes Prozac, Zoloft, Cipramil, Paxil and many more) have been found to be no more effective than a panacea in many studies and yet they are still doled out en masse as the solution to all ills. In fact in the case of under 18's they can have a severely adverse effect, but as long as the big chemical corporations exert their influence all is good. The only case where they have found to be more effective than a panacea is in the treatment of those with severe depression and even then the reasons for the difference between the two are debatable.

Large pharmaceutical companies are morally corrupt and they exert a frightening influence over governments. The needs of the individual sufferer are at the very bottom of their list of priorities.

It is very sad news indeed and it is the family left behind that I feel truly sorry for. Their lives have been permanently affected by his tragic loss. It is unfortunately all to common over here in Ireland and in Wexford in particular, but it is never spoken about. Never mentioned in the news media, a throwback to the influence of the catholic church and its regard of suicide as a mortal sin.