I went AWOL for a week

This title may sound a bit strange coming from one who has been giving advice to the disabled now for almost SIX years. Bear with me and you will discover that I am still giving advice but that this advice is based upon my becoming AWOL in Ireland.

My experience with being AWOL wouldn't have happened if I had heeded my own advice and sought help when I know that I needed it but this sage didn't and therefore wound up in Ireland for a week. Just think of this I am from the East Coast of the United States. So my being AWOL meant that I had to leave America and cross the Atlantic. In all I was probably 4,000 miles from those who cared about me.

My being AWOL was caused by a deep depression that I fell into after my family asked me to condone something that I knew was wrong. I became severely depressed and did all the things on the net that I had told my daughter never to do. First of all I answered a mysterious E-Mail and then began to correspond with the sender. Next I gave out pertinent information that should never be given out to strangers. Finally to top it all off I arranged for a trip to Ireland and no one knew where I was going or where I was staying.

I was lucky that I got out unscathed because I had fallen prey to a well organized scam ring which preyed upon the greedy, the depressed, or those prone to using faulty thinking processes.

As it turned out my experience over in Ireland may have been what the doctor prescribed because I came home with my insides completely healed of all the hurt and my once faulty thinking process had been replaced with good thinking.

Two things I can tell readers of this writing are the following: First, if you feel yourself getting depressed don't hesitate to ask for help because you may not be as lucky as I and you may find yourself in a situation which you can't get out of even worse you may be killed or kidnapped and then killed.

Secondly always be aware of the signs of depression which many times includes one of the following thought processes: Illogical thinking Faulty thinking Thoughts suicide

If anyone has any of these feelings then my advice to them is to immediately seek help because if they keep their feelings to themselves then they may not be as lucky as I and they may find themselves in a foreign jail or even worse they may be killed by those who prey upon those of us who may occasionally be prone to faulty thinking processes.

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