• Few tools to deal with life
• Why do I need tools for life?

• Other's stories
• Vulnerability and stress - definitions
• Who else could I speak to?
• Find your GP
• Other sites you might find helpful
• Signs of a breakdown
• Steps to clarify what is happening to you

I don’t have the tools to deal with life

We learn ways of coping from groups we are in (family, friends etc). Sometimes what we have learned does not work that well in the rest of the world. Whatever the case, nobody learns everything, so nobody ever has all of the tools for life. It just depends how many we have lost out on.

At times learning about life is disrupted – then the tools we need are not learned properly and sometimes, not at all. Imagine if a carpenter has never learned to use a chisel because his attention was somewhere else when the lesson was given.