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I wish I hadn't read that either. I wish for so many reasons but mainly right now because I knew him, as I was his patient who he treated as a professional and with care and understanding that exceeded any I had previously received for mental health issues.
Several years ago he had the unenviable task of sitting me down and telling me about the brain lesions that had shown up in the MRI. He was amazing. He fast-tracked me to see a Neurologist, he made a myriad phone calls to healthcare professionals and basically spent the next hours helping me through a very difficult time.
I feel sick. My wife has been in tears and sobbing after reading this (of course, she knew him too as she'd been with me throughout and spoke to him several times on the phone).
I'd spent years being pushed from pillar to post by psychiatrists until Gary took me seriously. He listened. For the first time in five terrible years of psychoses, someone cared and helped me.
I didn't know this is how he died. I hadn't read anything as I avoid so much of the media as it's not healthy for me.
A few hours ago I was joking about towels with TLG and feeling great. You can imagine how I feel now.
I was meant to see him last July. It didn't happen.
This post may sound like it's about me but it isn't. This is about Gary. I mentioned victims of ASB in a post recently and humanising those victims.
I don't understand the minds of the people who did this to him. It's horrific. It's ironic that Gary would have been able to and could have helped them. It's also so sad that he really needed someone to talk to.
Gary became as close to a friend as any professional could be. RIP.