The Unfortunate Bio of TheWalkingDaryl

Let's Talk About a Touchy Subject (11/09/18)

I've been trying all day to figure out how to word this entire part and it's now after 8pm and still playing on my mind, so I'm just going to type out whatever I feel like I need to say and see where this goes.

As the title suggests, this whole part is going to be about a rather touchy subject, so I'm warning you all now, if this is something you don't wish to read, as it may be a rather hard thing to work through, or it may be triggering to some of you, please for the love of all that's holy, skip this section. I'm taking a big leap here to discuss this topic and I hope some of you do stick around to read this, but it's gonna get raw, so please, skip this if you aren't able to read about this.

What this section is about to discuss may be triggering to some people.

Today, I wanna talk to you all about a very serious topic: suicide and mental health.

This whole part isn't gonna be easy for me to type out and it may not be easy to read. Something has sparked this and over the past 24 hours, it's been playing on my mind and I truly feel like I need to say something rather in depth on this topic due to one or two reasons.

Normally I don't like to name people, but in this instance, due to what's caused me to write this tonight, I need to. This is in no way meaning any disrespect towards the person/people involved and I don't know the full story. I just know what I've seen from people on Facebook and from some news reports that I've seen about it.

So I'm gonna tell you all a story about what's sparked this part within this bio/blog.

Roughly 24 hours ago, maybe a bit more, as I was at work when I found out, I was looking at Facebook and saw that something had happened to someone. Now, I personally didn't know the guy, but a lot of people that I know within the wrestling community down here in Australia, knew this guy on a rather personal level.

This guy, he was a Melbourne based wrestler named Judd Newman.

Like I said, I didn't know him on a personal level; never met him, but I had seen him around a couple of the shows that I was helping out with in Melbourne when I was there a few weeks ago.

Yesterday, he took his life.

I don't know the reasons. All I know is what I've seen from other people, and that the police were involved.

This is what's caused me to write this because I can see how much it's affected the people that I know, and it's just been playing on my mind for the past 24 hours and I need to say something on this topic in depth.

From what I've seen, it looks like he possibly shot himself. Residents had been warned at the time to stay indoors and not long afterwards, the police found him dead in the bushes not far from where he lived. This is all I really know.

But the point remains, there was something going on that he felt the need to do that. I don't know what, I wouldn't even begin to hazard a guess. This is in no way meant to be disrespectful to the family or close friends.

It's just one of those things that really shook a lot of people, as it wasn't something that anyone saw coming and it was incredibly unexpected. Everyone's said how he was one of the best people they knew and was always one to help anyone with anything and would always have a smile on his face in the locker room.

This goes to show, that even though that's what everyone saw, it doesn't mean that there wasn't something going on in his personal life that made him go ahead with this and actually end it.

He left behind a young son, no older than five.

You can be the nicest person on the planet and still feel irrelevant and like no-one cares. Some people are just incredibly good at hiding it, and this is where the danger lies.