My son posted this on his Facebook page.
I think he has suddenly become a man.

"To those who don't know the whole story.
Until you have walked in our shoes and have felt the pain we feel, keep your cruel comments and opinions to yourself. Ignorant people can be so cruel!! I'm posting to stop people from mocking and laughing at people for things beyond their control... Not one of my Facebook friends will copy and paste (but I am counting on a true family member or friend to do it). If you would be there for me no matter what then copy and paste this. I'm doing this to prove a friend wrong that someone is always listening. I care. Hard to explain to someone who has no clue. It's a daily struggle being in pain or feeling sick on the inside while you look fine on the outside. Please put this as your status for at least 1 hour if you or someone you know has an invisible illness (ADDICTION, IBS, Crohn's, PTSD, Anxiety, Arthritis, Cancer, Heart Disease, Bipolar, Depression, Diabetes, Lupus, Fibromyalgia, MS, AS, ME, , Epilepsy, hereditary angioedema , Migraines, Hashimotos, AUTISM, Borderline personality disorder, M.D.,D.D.D., CFS, Histiocytosis, O.D.D, A.D.H.D, RSD, RA (rheumatoid arthritis ) PBC,RLS ,COPD etc.) Never judge."
Read it love or hate it, post it if you will/can

I'm usually a bit of a joker and throw a few wise cracks around, but to be serious for moment. I want to relate a story of sadness and heartbreak, Last Thursday Jasmine Riley jumped to her death from a cliff top at Lurline Bay in Sydney's south eastern suburbs. to compound this terrible tragedy Jasmine took her young two year old son Braxton with her.

Shortly before her death Jasmine wrote on Facebook "It's funny what you can hide behind a smile."

Jasmine was known to my partners son.

If you are a victim of any kind of violence, sadness, financial difficulties or whatever there is always someone somewhere who will help. Lifeline 13 11 14.

Dear Paul,

How right you are. Talking to someone helps.

I was feeling so sorry for myself after I was diagnosed
with bowel cancer a decade ago and had the worst panic
attacks. I was referred to a councellor who helped
me tremnduously. I still have regular colonoscopies
but It's been over a decade - and all's well.
Talking to someone definitely helped me. (It did after
my recent accident as well).

Too true CHRISGAFF1000, too true. I often wonder at the level of pain and suffering some go through, all the while smiling through it all. Some of the offensive and cruel jibes we occasionally unleash on others simply because they may momentarily annoy us.

While working late one night at an inner city station, and because of extraordinary circumstances, I was on my 'pat malone'. This bloke stumbled in and lurched over to the counter, and with a slurred voice attempted to barge in, whilst I was in the process of typing out the particulars from this complainant standing at the counter.

Seeing he was clearly heavily inebriated, I said to him, in the most aggressive and officious tone I could muster up (in public), to sit down and shut up and I'd attend to him when I finished with the individual I was dealing with, and he did.

That night I seemed to have a procession of people wanting assistance of one sort of another, to the point I forgotten this bloke altogether? One of our cars had returned, and a colleague wanted to know what this bloke wanted, as he appeared asleep?

Turned out this poor bugger was in fact in a Diabetic hypoglycaemic coma, which left too long could've resulted in his death? And being the member on station duty, I would have been put through the proverbial wringer had anything serious happened. Indeed later I could smell this 'sweet fruity' odour on his breathe without even a hint of alcohol whatsoever. We're constantly made aware of what can happen with those in custody and our responsibility to them.

This bloke apparently, simply wanted some water due entirely to the incredibly thirst they have, when these things occur. And me, the big tough officious bastard, was too arrogant to realise exactly what was transpiring? Had anything happened to this fellow, it would be my fault entirely, I was one very lucky young bloke.