Bel Mooney's Lifelines by Bel Mooney

Author:Bel Mooney [Bel Mooney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849546984
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2015-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

AND FINALLY…

Knowing you like catch-ups, I bring good news about Adrian. Four weeks ago, I printed his lonely letter: he hated his life, lived on ‘chocolate, crisps and vodka’ and was full of misery and self-pity. Unusually brisk, I told him to get his act together. A number of readers reproached me; one lady even said that if he committed suicide it would be my fault, which wasn’t very nice.

But you see, sometimes a deep instinct tells me that sighing, ‘Oh, you poor thing’ isn’t good enough. We all have to take control of our lives and if somebody goes to the trouble of writing such a long letter it’s unlikely (though not impossible, I admit) they are suffering from clinical depression. Anyway, Adrian was grateful and found my advice ‘a much-needed shot in the arm of reality’ – and the first thing he did was start to repaint his flat. There’s positive action!

It gets better. I nagged him privately by email after his letter was published, because I truly felt he would benefit from counselling and knew he was reluctant to try. So finally he went to the library to look up local counselling services – an excellent move, because at a computer you have no human interaction. For there at the library he got talking to a lady and now they are in a relationship. ‘I count my blessings that we met,’ says Adrian. He goes on: ‘I’m eating proper food again. Before I wrote to you my kitchen cupboard contained one tin of baked beans and the entire stock of the off-licence. Now I have cut my alcohol intake to a fraction of what it was.’ He cooks with his new lady and is trying to give up smoking because she doesn’t like it. Adrian wants people to know that ‘things CAN change and sometimes do so very quickly’. To my delight he says, ‘Writing to you was a big step and a positive one and helped me get things moving.’

Now I am off to my jukebox to deafen myself with Hot Chocolate singing, ‘I believe in miracles…’

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