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Originally Posted by MercuryT
My sister has major depression and lives by herself, hasn't coped at all not being able to see family or friends which was her outlet.
But she's weak and didn't suffer World War 2 as Russell stated, so she is so soft as a person.
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Agree, I had to reply to this.
Been on the phone with a farmer client.
These guys are normally a happy go lucky family with 10 kids, his wife is a nurse in charge at one of the local hospitals. When covid happened they coped well but since this border closure, school closures and second round he tells me his wife spiraled down into such a deep depression and tried to take her own life.
She has been in hospital on watch since. He is visiting her everyday day there with a couple of their older kids. He tells me he has been battling the border closure as they have a second farm in NW NSW which he needs to attend to in between running the local farm.
he also tells me 7 out of the 11 beds in that psych ward are farmers wives.
I know these 3rd generation farmers well and are a pretty tuff close extended family but this is really starting to break them.