There's nothing very private about this:
http://www.thewildhearts.com/cgi-bin/gi ... ssueno=045
This isn't aimed at you personally Col, your quote just illustrates my point best.
Ginger's perfectly entitled to air his thoughts on his own condition. However, speculation about someone's current mental health based on a missive of unverified origin and an article written almost four years ago is both unnecessary and a little offensive to Ginger I would have thought.
I'm quite sure that a proper thread on the subject of depression and bipolar disorder could be both helpful and informative to many of us without the need to go into the specifics of people who aren't here to share their views, but this isn't the thread for it, especially as it really shouldn't have gone much further than about halfway down the first page and has since detoured into the territory of the Toon being a bit shite this season apparently.