Mental case problems.

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Our human brains is there to guide us, when it works well. But sometimes even good minds fail to work the way they are supposed tom work, this is one of the problems that we face these days. There are reasons to believe that today there are many people that require mental help. 

Welcome to our article, Mental Case Problems. 

Our human brain and its problems.

Dear readers, today we are talking about mental health. You know, in life there are many problems; one of the biggest problems is our human brains, when it does not work the way it is supposed to work, and instead of solving the problems that we have, it becomes a problem itself. We can say that mental illness is strange to understand.

Anyhow, today I am witnessing one of this mental health problems at close range, so, let us see, if we can do anything to help this person. I think that it can help talking about it, because it is the only way to find help, about what can be done.

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This is a personal cry for help. 

I think that people that are affected from a mental disorder, they are not aware of the problems they are causing to themselves and the people around them, they are aware that they have a health problem, but they don’t know what to do, so, while they wish to be helped, they don’t try to find help because they are confused. So, we can say that it is a silent cry for help; it is a sad story, they need help, but they don’t look for help.

I know that these things happen in life, and I believe it is useful to talk about what is happening to this young man, hoping that somebody can help me.

You see, what I am talking about here, is a very strange case of mental illness, that is affecting a young man close to me. Now because this case is about mental health, all names and relationship to me have been changed, so, there is no link that can identify the person concerned. Anyhow, I am not an expert in mental health issues, even though I have observed a few cases of mental illness.

Anyhow, this article is not meant to pass advise or information to anybody, because I need advice myself, therefore, you can say that this article here is a cry for help. Therefore, I am in search of what can be done to help this young man, before he becomes too ill, that would be hard for him to become a normal member of the community again, as I fear that there are signs that this is happening. Now that I have explained the reasons, let me tell you about the people involved in this case.

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People involved in this case. 

In this article we are talking about Mr. James Lee, who is the son of Mr. Don Lee; anyhow I and Mr. Don Lee have been friends for years, even before he married Sara who is a close relative to me, so, there is not much that I don’t know about Don Lee and his family, including James Lee that is now a young man in his early thirties. Unfortunately, James Lee has mental health problems, for this reason we believe he lost his job, or he left his job as an engineer; yes Mr. James Lee is a Civil engineer; he graduated at the University of Queensland, he has worked for a few years as a Civil engineer and that was good for him; the real reason why he lost a left his job is hard to say, because James Lee keeps these personal things to himself.

Therefore, these days Mr. James Lee does not work, and he is not looking for work ether, if he continues to do nothing, he is going to waste his life achieving nothing. Mr. Don Lee laments this state of things, so, he is worried about his son mental health, because he is acting strange, as I am going to explain here under. Anyhow, we want to help James Lee; so, we are looking for ways how to help him.

While we are thinking to help him, we start thinking all those years of studying have gone down the drain, because James Lee is mentally sick, and does not want to see the mental doctors, he denies his illness, and that has become a real problem for everybody around.

Anyhow, we are concerned about him, so, we want to help him and are looking for help and crying for help to anyone that can help. But at the same time, we don’t want to say much openly, because it is not nice to talk about people with mental illness. So, even asking for help has become a problem, in this case.

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Mr. Lee parents lament his illness. 

Mr. and Mrs. Lee lament about their son illness, because they have done everything they could to help him, but they did not succeed in helping him much, so, they don’t know what else to do, you see, wherever they turn there are problems. Anyhow, today these mental health problems are hard to solve; I can see the reasons why, but at the same time, I wish that it was easier to access this mental health service.

Today it is hard to see a mental health doctor, but it needs to be easy; because in cases like James Lee, I believe that it is necessary that the patient be seen from these doctors soon, because the longer a patient is sick, the longer it is going to take to make him healthy again; therefore, they need to be seen as soon as possible, but most times it does not happen that way, that is why James Lee’s parents lament about the mental health system. Because it is hard to see a young Civil Engineer go to waste. At this point of time, I believe that you want to know why we believe that he is mentally sick, so, let us describe how he behaves and what he does.

James Lee is not working these days, and he does not look for work, which is not right for a qualified young man of his age; his behavior is strange and does not make sense to anybody that sees what he does. Now let me describe a few strange things that he does: he comes home and he starts making loud noise by banging say the car keys on the table, then he may go in his bedroom and slams the door, after that he purposely drops things on the floor and makes loud noise, if anybody asks him what is the problem, he gets very upset, because he is upset he wants to scratch himself, slap himself or bite himself and other strange things as well, and then he blame the person asking him and say; look what you make me do? It is your fault, because you are making me do this to myself: But that is not all, because his behavior keeps changing, so, it is even hard to make a list of what he does. For this reason, the family and close friends are concerned about James Lee.

Anyhow, because we want to explain Mr. James Lee behavior as much as possible, we are going to say more about his strange behavior here-under.

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Some mental people strange behavior. We could say that mental people are very strange, I believe that they see a lot of things in a different way, they are confused and act in a strange way, they could even want to kill themselves or do some very strange things that would upset the people around them. 

Mr. James Lee illness strange behavior. 

As we have said, we believe that James Lee has mental illness, because Mr. James Lee is behaving in many strange ways and it is hard to explain most of them, but I must try to describe the most obvious, and the most consistent, so that a profile story case can be made. So, let us tell you what has happened recently, then, we will start telling you the story, in a more detailed way from the beginning.

As we have said above, James Lee becomes upset and agitated, when people talk to him, he likes to stay all by himself with his own thoughts, but at the same time he makes these noises that upset the people around him; so, what has happened a few weeks ago is this; it was about past ten PM when most people go off to bed, but James Lee was not thinking of going to sleep at that time, he must have been upset in his own strange ways, because he started one of those strange behavior, and was making very loud noises, his parents tried to ask him why he was doing these things, but James Lee became upset and among other things, like scratching his face, hitting himself with his own fist in the head, dropping on the floor, as if he was dying or something similar, he also went into the kitchen picked up a knife and wanted to harm himself with it, and many other things that are hard to describe.

Mr. and Mrs. Lee were very worried about James, and even though they were very upset and telling their son that they wanted him to see a doctor as soon as possible, or they would call an ambulance to take him to the nearest hospital; James Lee did not want to hear about it, and he tried to stop them several times, when they were calling the ambulance, but in the end somehow they managed to call the ambulance and it came about midnight; strange as it may seem, James did not argue much with the paramedic of the ambulance, while the ambulance was there, Mr. Don Lee the father of James Lee explained to the paramedic about the suicidal intention of his son, in the hope that he would be seen from a psychiatrist, so, they thought that when the doctors see their son, their problem would be half solved, but even all this effort was not to be successful, because James Lee only saw the physician of the hospital during the night, or in the early hours of the morning; then he was supposed to wait at the hospital until the psychiatrist came in to see him, but he did not want to wait, so, he left the hospital and walked back home. The staff of the hospital were alarmed at his disappearance and called Mr. Lee, to see if James Lee had returned home. Anyhow, soon after that James came home, so, everything seemed to be a bit better, except for the fact that James Lee had failed to see the psychiatrist, when his parents had provided one of the best opportunities to see him.

Here we have to point out, that it is hard to live with these people that have a mental illness, and a good opportunity that could have solved the problem has vanished, just because James Lee is in denial and he believes that he does not need to see a psychiatrist. So, now Mr. Lee and the rest of the family are waiting for next opportunity or think to create another opportunity for James to see a mental doctor.

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Mr. and Mrs. Lee days are a torment. 

Since the day James Lee came back from the hospital without seeing the psychiatrist, life is a torment for Mr. and Mrs. Lee. Because they are still looking for ways of how they can make their son James see a psychiatrist, so, every day that passes, it is another day of torment for Mr. Lee and his family; one has to acknowledge, that there is nothing more painful than this sad happening in a normal day life, because you are forced to see that a member of your family can be helped, but you cannot help him, because he denies that he needs help.

Today I am editing this article, because I need to add something else, as things have changed. But, let me tell you these sad happenings have gone on for several months, and all that time it has been a torment for Mr. and Mrs. Lee. But one day after many attempts finally they got their son to see a mental specialist, which admitted James Lee to hospital, where James Lee stayed about a week. Because a patient in hospital costs a lot of money to the government, Mr. James Lee was discharged early. Anyhow, at this point of time things seem to be a bit better; because James Lee admits to himself that he is sick, so, he takes his medicine, and goes back to see the hospital doctor every month.

Now it has been a few months since Mr. James Lee was in hospital. Today James Lee is a bit better, because he is not very agitated like he was before, but still he is not able to work, because he does not even look for work. Mr. and Mrs. Lee are worried, because this can become permanent, as they don’t see their son health improve enough, and to the point of becoming independent.

Anyhow, one wonders how hard life can be, it seems to hit always the same unfortunate people, is seems to run in some families more than the others. Anyhow, at this point of time, we must wait and see what happens next.

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Today I am editing this article. 

Today I am editing this article, so, I want to report what has been happening, since I wrote this article about James Lee illness. There is not much positive to report, because even though the state of health of, Mr. James Lee has improved, it has not improved that much, but he is calmer than before. However, James Lee has not found a job, and he is not looking for one.

Mr. Don Lee and Mrs. Lee are upset, because now, they start to believe that their son may never work again, after so many years of study and everything else. They have tried their best, they have made their son see a physiatrist, he has been in hospital for a week, and a few follow up visits, which have helped a little. I suppose that today the doctors cannot fix everything, and in the case of James Lee, they have only partly helped.

Anyhow, Mr. and Mrs. Lee were proud to have their son a civil engineer in the family, now they think that they are going to have a sick son to look after, so, in their old age, instead of their son looking after them, they must continue to look after their son, because James does not know what he is doing.

So, what can we say, we can only be sorry for them, because no one deserves to be this ill that cannot look after oneself, and we feel sorry for the parents as well, because that is a big burden they should endure, for the rest of their lives. 

Having told you James Lee sad story, I can only say that I feel sorry for them. But what can we do? That is life, we must accept it and try to do our best, and hope that God gives us strength to continue to live the best way we can. 

I believe that I have said enough in this mental article article problem. Next time will be writing a problem on the internet, My accounts on Hub Pages . 

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Health safety net may fail.

WELCOME TO OUR GENERAL BLOG YOU ARE INVITED. Here, we will post articles about world issues, Australian issues, Italian issues. And we will post also my personal life story articles.  Anyhow, today we will post another personal article,   Health safety net fails. 

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http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com,http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/, 

https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/,https://sites.google.com/site/godintheuniverse/, https://sites.google.com/site/menfrancoreconciliation/, www.catholic.org/,www.catholic.org.au/, www.catholic.org/bible/, www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html,

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We all need a good health safety net, run from the government, for free if it is possible. Now, this building is called, Princes Alexander Hospital, it is one of the main hospitals in Brisbane that provides all necessary medical services to South Brisbane and the country around  us. It also takes in difficult cases from far away places. It has also a large mental health section, it is very good, but even this may not satisfy everybody, especially mental cases. So, let us look at this article hereunder.  

 Welcome to our article, Health safety net fails. 

Dear readers, in life we need rules to follow, but sometimes those rules do not work out, in this article we want to talk about the health safety net. The health safety net is run from the government health authorities, but because of its rules, it may fail to help those people that need help most.

The most likely people that will be affected, are those people that need mental help, because this is where it can easily fail. So, we want to point out, that it is not easy to access mental help, because of the rules in the mental health act, so, the patient will suffer before he can get help. Now, we are not saying that the mental health act is to blame, because it needs to work that way for different reasons. However, we are writing this article, from the point of view of the patient and his family, because they are forced to go through hard times, so, we are complaining about it. In the hope that one day, a better health safety net can be set up, where it is easier for the sick people and their family to access. Anyhow, let us look at what is available to use today, when we need mental help, which are the most difficult to access.

 

Better health safety net is required.  

From what has happened to my family and is happening even now, I believe that a better health safety net is required, because we have problems when we need mental help. I am saying this, because I have been through myself a few times, and I can see that this is happening again to my family and friends. Anyhow, this outside help that we are talking about exists, but it should be readily available, to those people that need mental help. You see, there are times when the rules to get mental help are too strict, for this reason it fails to achieve what is meant to achieve. Now, let us look at the set up, and the reason why this happens.

You see, in most countries like Australia, this help is provided from the government, this could be the federal government, the state government or the local authorities. Of course, there are private doctors and organizations that provide this help also; but they cost money. So, here we want to talk about what the government of the day provide for its own citizen; whether this help is free, or you must contribute to use it. Anyhow, this can be different from country to country and from state to state, but any good government must have this health safety net in place, to help those people that need help, therefore, it should be readily available on demand to anyone that needs help urgently; but sometimes it is hard to access, for many reasons.

Therefore, the health safety net fails to provide what it is supposed to provide, in our case, medical emergency and mental health; this failure to provide medical help, can have real consequences for the people that need help. Now, if this help is for physical reasons, it is easier for the people around to decide what help they need; so, in this case they ask to see a doctor, because it is easy to see why we need help.

But what about if the person needing mental help does not know that he needs help, even when their families and friends ask them to look for help, they don’t admit it and keep making themselves sicker, like when a person has mental health problems, you see this is where most times help fails to take place. 

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Hospitals can solve these health problems.  

We know that hospitals have been built to solve these health problems, so, the best place to look for help is your local hospital, because hospitals can solve all the health problems, since there are all sorts of doctors and specialists to help you; but even though they are there to help, sometimes it is not easy to get admitted and that becomes a problem that is hard to solve, so, in a way they fail to do what they are supposed to do.

Having said that, let us leave behind these cases that require medical attention for physical reasons, as they are obvious to the on lookers when a person needs help, for this reason, he can receive medical help soon and solve his problem. But what about those cases of mental illness, when we look fit, but we are not, that person has got to become very sick before he can receive help.

This is most likely to happen, when we have mental health problems, because to spot the need for help is hard to see, but the need for the patient to see the right doctors is important. Most times these cases are sad cases, because people around the sick person may think it is funny, how that person acts; so, instead of finding a way to help that person, they may laugh thinking that that person is trying to be funny, when that person cannot think straight, and half the time he does not know what he is doing, this person needs help like the other sick people, because he doesn’t know that he needs to be seen from a mental doctor to get better.

Perhaps it is the stigma that we attach to mental health people, that prevents the on lookers and the sick person to try to see a mental doctor. Whatever is the case that sick person needs to see a doctor, and it would be good if all parties involved accept that easily, because this can solve the problem. You see, when we need mental help and the patient doesn’t ask for it directly, the health safety net can fail. The patient needs to ask himself for help to receive help. Other people cannot be involved, that is the main problem.  

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When we need mental help sometimes.  

Anyhow, I am writing this article about mental health, because things have happened in my family and my close friend family, therefore, we need to find help. But that is not all, because I have reached the stage where I don’t know what to do, I cannot think of anything useful or interesting to say, because these mental health problems in my family.

As we have said, when we feel sick, we to go to see the doctor, but that is not always the case for people that have a mental health problem, because they may not even know that they have this mental problem, or they are ashamed to acknowledge that they have it, but that is not the only problem that we have here, because the biggest problem is to gain access to a mental clinic and specialist.

Now this is another reason why the health safety net may fail to help, the mentally sick people, are living their lives beyond their control. So, whatever they do may not be what the normal people would do, but the mentally sick people may not even know, that what they are doing may upset other people, they are not aware of what they should do to act normal, because this is a problem beyond their control, so, let us see what some of those people do, when they live their lives beyond their control.

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Sometimes life events are beyond our control. 

In my lifetime, I have been involved with a few cases of mental illness, some from my family members, and some from close friends. From what I have seen, I believe that these mental life events, most times are beyond our control. Anyhow, I am going to write here how I have seen these cases, and what I have learned from them: To do that I have chosen two cases which I know what has happened; to write about them I believe that I must write two more articles in hub pages, because I want to keep them separate, otherwise it would be hard to understand the situation of each case.

Anyhow, we can say, that every time that there is serious mental illness in the family, or even in a close friend family, there is chaos around the place, and it cannot be avoided. You see, people that have a mental illness do strange things, they are hard to control, because of the simple fact that they may not know that they are sick, they keep doing strange things and most times they isolate themselves, they start isolating themselves, because they start to notice that the people around them, are suspicions about what they are doing; if anybody says anything to them, they will try not to answer that question, or answer it in a snappy way without thinking what they are saying; there are times, when they can become aggressive towards the people that talks to them, so, the people around them will notice that; so, they will try to tell them to see a doctor, to find out what is wrong with them, but whether they go to see a doctor is another matter. Sometimes they go to see the doctor, but when they are there, they will talk to the doctor about things that worries them, but they will try to avoid anything that might suggest their mental condition, by doing that they believe that they have been seen from a doctor and they are okay, so, any help that is available to them cannot be used, because they are denying the state of mind they are in, for this reason help fails to arrive for them.

But that is not all, you see, the hardest thing to do for the people around the ill person, it is that they cannot enforce anything at all, it is very hard to see when a loved one is sick and you cannot help them, because the ill person cannot accept that he/she is sick and should look for help.

There are a lot of questions that we can ask, but the most important one, is how we can force the sick person to see the right doctor, and admit that they are sick and need help, so, they agrees to see the doctor and accept treatment; you see, today even if you are mentally sick, you can live free in the community; because even if the doctor know that you are sick, the doctor can only force treatment to those people that are so sick and they don’t know what is happening around them, so, they are at risk of injuring themselves or some people around them.

That is why help for the mentally sick people fails to take place, and presently it is failing us again; I will write a few things in more details when I write more articles about mental help, because I believe that I have said enough in this article, so, see you soon, in our next article of, Mental Case Problems. 

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Dreams of our life.

WELCOME TO OUR GENERAL BLOG YOU ARE INVITED. Here, we will post articles about world issues, Australian issues, Italian issues. And we will post also my personal life story articles. 

 Anyhow, today we will post another personal article,  Dreams of our life. 

Now, allow us to post some of my favorite links and other blogs:

http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com,http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/, 

https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/,https://sites.google.com/site/godintheuniverse/, https://sites.google.com/site/menfrancoreconciliation/, www.catholic.org/,www.catholic.org.au/, www.catholic.org/bible/, www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html,

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Everybody dreams and have their own dreams, that will help us achieve what we want to achieve in fife. You see, people need to have their own dreams, because the dreams that we have today, can become reality tomorrow. Since we can create our tomorrow's by what we dream today.  
 

Welcome to our article, Dreams of our life. 

Dear readers, I believe that most of us are dreamers, and we like to dream about a better life and other different things. Anyhow, the dreams that we dream are two different types: the dreams that we dream at night, which are our real dreams, and the dreams that we dream during the day, which are those things that we wish we had, or we want to have in the future.

In this article, we are going to write about our daydreams, therefore, our desires of what we would like to do in the future. So, the dreams that we are dreaming today, they are what we can create tomorrow. You see, today I am dreaming about writing this article about dreams.

Now, I have called this article dreams of our lives, but I wanted to call it dreaming away, because this is what we do during our lives. Yes, we dream what we want to be, or what we like to do; so, our dreams are not only the dreams that we dream at night, they are also our thoughts and our wishes during the day, that we can have in real life, if we are lucky. Because we may be dreaming an impossible dream, but that is the way we are, we always dream a dream that is bigger than us.

We dream all sort of dreams, some people will say, that life can even be only a dream, a dream that we are dreaming and nothing else; so, one day we wake up and find out that what we have been dreaming does not exist.

As for myself I believe that I exist, and I am alive and well, and at this moment I am writing an article in Hub Page about dreams, in the hope of gaining attention from my readers; so, I am going to tell you some dreams that I have had in my life, and they are dreams that we dream at night.

I need to say, that I have had important dreams during my life, that I have written and published, one of those dreams that I call the most important dream of my life, has been published in Hub Pages. 

 

Dreaming our youth dreams.

When we are young, we dream of doing great things, or becoming famous one day, it is so easy to think of being famous one day. You see, because we are surrounded by many examples, for instance, when we look at programs on TV, we want to be like the hero or the heroine of that show, or the actor or actress since they are famous people; it is normal, and why not at least dream about it, everybody wants to be a hero or rich and famous, because that is what the world around us is talking about, so, there is nothing wrong for dreaming about it, when everybody else wishes to be an hero or rich and famous.

But the question here is. Is it possible to achieve those things that we dream about during our lives? Or are those dreams that we are dreaming going to remain only dreams? You see, what we want or what we wish we had, they are two different things altogether that is the problem, so, our dreams can remain just dreams and nothing else. But we can try to achieve whatever we dream about; it is part of our lives.

When we are young, we dream what our life is going to bring us. If we are born in a poor family, we hope that one day we can become rich, so, those things that were missing, can become a thing of the past.

Every one of us has got his own daydreams, and we dream about the need that we have, so, our dreams are different to someone else dreams. Anyhow, we daydream, and then try to improve ourselves, if we can. So, if we are poor the most likely dream that we have is to become rich one day. When we are sick our dream is to get well again; if we are weak, we want to become strong, or even stronger than normal people. These are the daydreams; we call these daydreams because they are our things that are missing in our life, so, dreaming about them can even be helpful, because it gives us a purpose to achieve during our lives.

At this point of time, I believe that you want to ask; but what about the real dreams that we dream at night? Are they as important, as the daydreams? Or what can be said about those dreams?

There are reasons to believe, that the dream that we dream at night, are affected by our own personality and needs. See; Menfranco Dreamland Modified, Dreamland dreams and beliefs, these are two links that talk about the dreams that we have. There are more dreams, but they are religious dreams, these are the other links, Cosmic Spiritual Dreams, Dreamed about God, Now I believe that I have said enough about explaining dreaming away, so, let me say something about, my yesterday youth dreams.

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My yesterday youth dreams. 

Now I am going to talk about some of the hopes and dreams that I had, when I was young including other fellows that happened to be in a similar situation, as I was, in my small family farm in Southern Italy, because that is where I was living then, in those times life was hard.

So, we are writing about some views of a young boy, to see how the boys that were living in the farms like himself, were coping with this farm life. What were our dreams? What were our hopes. Now, we expect to rip rewards from whatever we are doing in life, in farming is the same, but the rewards are in the hands of Mother Nature, we could only hope, that everything would work out all right, our dreams were that we wanted plenty of produce at harvest time that would last a whole year. Most times we didn’t, and so, we would start dreaming for a better harvest next year. So, even then dreaming away, would help a bit.

Now let us go back to tell you about, our farm life experience when I was young. In the farm we were busy with our farm tasks, but it was still boring in every other way, because our life was at stand still, especially the farms of Southern Italy, in the early fifties when I was young, so, any change of life style would have been welcome. But we could only dream about it.

You see, in southern Italy most small farm are separated from the town, not only that, but only menfolk and boys stay in the farms all the time, while the women and the rest of the community stays in town most of the time, so, if life was boring, this is also one of the reasons.

But in springtime things change for the better in the farms, as there are more contact with the town people, especially for young boys springtime is almost exciting, because spring makes them dream of better things to come. 

One of the things that we would dream about, was that on Easter Monday when most town people come to visit the farms for a picknick; we would prepare a swing that would be made of a rope tied to a tree branch. We the boys wanted to show-off, so, we would go up the tree while the girls were there and tie this rope up for the girls, and then if we were lucky the girls would ask us to push them. Wow! That was the best dream. But dreams sometimes can happen, and if you were the lucky one, you would push the girl on the swing. Anyhow, let us just dream about it; I Hope you see what I mean; even simple things like this would make us dream away.

 

Dreaming is part of our life. 

During our lives we continue to dream, when one is young, we dream for a better life in the future, hoping that it is possible to achieve. In this case the dreams that we dream are planning for a better life, so, even dreaming can be helpful, if we dream the right dreams and they can make an improvement to our lives.

I have dreamed many daydreams when I was young, about how I could improve myself using what we had in our small farm, but then I realized that no matter what I could do, it was not going to solve the problem that we had, which was poverty, since our farm was not big enough; you see, those were changing times that we were going through then, and small family farms were on the way out, it was better for us, if we could work somewhere else, but there were no jobs available anywhere, because the entire economy of these towns was farming; so, it was a hard life that we lived then, a lot harder than these present days.

One of the great differences about farming, is shown in my article in hub page, Farming today compared to the old way, in this article, we have described the great difference in the cost of farming, because in those times farming was done manually, there were a lot of man hours involved in producing wheat and other farming products, so, the farm worker had to be paid low wages to make ends meet; anyhow, we can compare yesterday farming to today’s farming, in this article.

Now because of all those negative things that were happening in farming, as I have said, I stopped dreaming about farming, and decided to immigrate to Australia. In Australia I have had a different life, because instead of farming I have been working in the building industry, here I became a bricklayer and worked most of my life as a bricklayer; for that reason, I have dreamed different dreams, most of which were how I could improve myself in my building position and other things. You see, I see that dreaming is part of life and I see planning what to do next is part of life. Now, what we have dreamed to achieve or have planned to achieve, sometimes it does not work out; when it does not work out we need to assume that we have done our best, and we should think that, sometime we win and sometimes we lose.

I believe that I have said enough in this article. Anyhow, whatever happens we can always try to dream a better dream. Anyhow, I better stop writing now. See you next time, where I am going to write, Concerned about us all. 

To see more click on this link, Dreams of our life. 

See you soon.

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Gardening in Brisbane.

WELCOME TO OUR GENERAL BLOG YOU ARE INVITED. Here, we will post articles about world issues, Australian issues, Italian issues. And we will post also my personal life story articles. 

 Anyhow, today we will post another personal article, Gardening in Brisbane. 

Now, allow us to post some of my favorite links and other blogs:

http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com,http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/, 

https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/,https://sites.google.com/site/godintheuniverse/, https://sites.google.com/site/menfrancoreconciliation/, www.catholic.org/,www.catholic.org.au/, www.catholic.org/bible/, www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html,

http://diybrickwork.com, http://manneedsgod.co.uk, http://frankmenchise.com 

This article can be also found at this Hub Pages link, Gardening in Brisbane. 

Here we want to talk about gardening in Brisbane, because I live in Brisbane and I enjoy visiting the gardens, but it is not easy to show you what I find in the gardens, so, I have taken this photo from the Internet, to show you how beautiful this display of roses in flower are, this is a more compact display than we have in New Farm Park. Anyhow, because this blog is too long, we are not pasting all the photos that we have in our original article in Hub Pages, but you can visit that by clicking on this link, 
.Gardening in Brisbane. 

Welcome to our article, Gardening in Brisbane. 

Dear readers, I find that gardening is a relaxing thing to do.  You see, when we talk about gardens, we visualize in our minds, these places with plants in flower, that we enjoy looking at their beauty. Most people find great pleasure when they visit a well-kept garden, because it is relaxing, and a pleasure to walk among those healthy plants and flowers.

Now, we have called this article, gardening in Brisbane, so, let us look at Brisbane gardens, even if the photos that I am using here will come mostly from the Internet, since these days I cannot visit these places much, but I can tell you that gardens are relaxing places, therefore, it is good for any of us to visit them; you see, when you come back from the gardens, you feel refreshed and a better person. Anyhow, there are three main Gardens in Brisbane city that are worth visiting:

(1) Brisbane city Botanic Garden, (this is the first garden in Brisbane, they used to grow food there when the first settlers came to Brisbane)

(2) Mount Coot-tha Botanic Garden (this is a new garden, created after Brisbane city botanic garden was made smaller, from a new university building and a bridge that spans the Brisbane River)

(3) New Farm Park Garden, also called the rose garden, because of the many roses that grow there.

Then, we want to write about our own gardening, while we look at these gardens.

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Brisbane city botanic garden and Mount Coo-tha botanic garden

Now, in the original article, we have shown you a few photos of Brisbane gardens, New Farm Park garden, let us also visit Brisbane city botanic garden and other important gardens in Brisbane. To start with here-under is a link that I have taken from the internet in you-tube that talks about Brisbane botanic garden, (Just hover on the line below and follow the instructions).

BRISBANE, the beautiful Botanic Gardens (Queensland, Australia)

It is nice to find on the Internet these links; they make it easier to explain things that are hard to explain.

Explain the above and other natural things. 

Now that we have shown you some garden photos above, and Mount Coo-tha look out. Let us talk about some gardening, which Mother Nature does by itself and sometimes they may even seem strange. Now beside this text there are a couple of photos that are just a natural happening, these things do not require much gardening skill, since they happen in the wild, and it is Mother Nature way that helps these plants grow, so, let us look at them. One photo I believe has been taken in New Farm Park, since I know that trees like that are growing there, this photo shows these strange trees that have roots coming down from their branches, these roots hit the ground and grow, they grow so big that you cannot tell anymore, whether they are the first tree that was planted there, since they all seem like a tree trunk, I believe that Mother Nature is strange, but it is interesting to note those things.

Another photo shows some wild flowers; this photo was taken from somebody that travelled to Northern Italy, it shows some wild flowers that grow up in the mountain there; this goes to show that Mother Nature can do things on its own and does not need us to make a display.

Now that we have explained Mother Nature ways, which does not need our help to happen, we are going to talk about some simple gardening that we want to do ourselves.

 

Thinking about doing some gardening. 

Now, we have talked about, some public gardens that you can visit in Brisbane; but what about if we want to make a garden ourselves, or a kitchen garden for ourselves, that we can have in our own back yard; since in Brisbane all stand-alone houses have a back yard.

We would like to do that to stay outside and try our skills, and at the same time enjoy the relaxing atmosphere that gardens and gardening produce within us. So, if we want to do some gardening ourselves, what is the first thing that we need to know about gardening?

If we want to do some gardening, there are a few things that we need to know, before we even start gardening. Of course, we need some local knowledge, so, it is helpful, if you know someone that has some local gardening knowledge, because local knowledge helps a lot. You see, when we talk about gardening, if we know anything about gardening, the first thing that comes to our mind is the weather, and the second thing is the sun shine, then the seasons of the year, when to grow certain plants, then, the average temperature of the place, where this gardening is going to take place; because these things will influence what plants we can grow there, and the time when is most likely that they will grow well. If we don’t know that, then we should learn as we go on planting our plants. Of course, today when we by any seeds there are instructions that say when the best time is to plant them, and this is very helpful. Anyhow, let us talk about our gardening.

 

Let us talk about our gardening. 

Now, I am writing this article about gardening from Brisbane Australia. The city of Brisbane is situated in the subtropical region of the Southern hemisphere, I have mentioned the Southern hemisphere, so that my readers are not going to be surprised, when I am going to tell them that while I am writing this article, I am getting ready to plant some winter plants. Now, this is the month of May and the Month of May is spring in the northern hemisphere, so, it is shocking for any reader in the Northern hemisphere to hear that I am planting winter plants, I know this because I have come from the Northern hemisphere. But as you know the seasons in Australia are the opposite of the Northern hemisphere, but even knowing this is not enough, because there are a lot of other factor to consider, which it is hard to explain in a few words.

In Brisbane, the climate is a bit on the hot side; with this warm climate, we should be able to grow all sorts of plants and vegetables all year around, at least in theory we should be able to do that, but here I am telling you that it is not that simple, because any place on earth you go to, it is a different and has its own ways how to grow plants and vegetables. So, we need to learn those things before we can grow plants, or vegetables the easy way. But let us not despair because we can always copy the gardening people around us. Of course, gardening and gardens can be enjoyed in other ways, as we have shown in the photos that we have pasted in this article.

Anyhow, I wish I can grow flowers in my home garden, beside my vegetables, because I like flowers, but I may have to let it go, because it takes time and effort to grow them. But because I am an old man, I have to let it go and be happy to grow a few flowers, and a kitchen garden with tomatoes and vegetables, and other things that are already growing there, so, let us talk about what we have in the back yard.

 

What I am growing in my backyard. 

Now, most of us who own a standalone house on a large piece of land, like what we have in Brisbane Australia, have land that can be used to grow vegetables, or other plants. You see here in Brisbane, most of the cheaper affordable house are built on a piece of land, which is about 400 square meters; most houses are 100 to 150 square meters, so, the rest of the land is vacant land, we call this land our yard and it can be used in different ways. Now, some of us have a beautiful green lawn in the yard, and we are satisfied to have this green grass, and you know it is very enjoyable on hot days, because that green lawn makes you feel cooler; but we have to mow the lawn to keep it at its best, but that is easy done with a lawnmower.

But, some of us beside keeping a perfect lawn, want to have a flower garden and grow many types of flowers, here and there and decorative shrubs; this type of decorative gardening is done usually in the front yard of the house, as most of the houses in Brisbane suburbs, are set well back from the road: in the new suburbs of Brisbane this is usually 6 meters, in the old suburb this distance could be different. Anyhow, even if we use the land in the front yard for flowers and decorative shrubs, we still have the back yard, where we can grow anything we want, if the land is fertile enough, and we like gardening.

Now, I and my partner may not be the best gardeners around, but we like to try to grow a few things in our back yard, when we can. So, when we have spare time I go in the back yard and try to improvise, by starting our own garden patch, we think that we should grow our own vegetables, herbs, tomatoes, and other plants.

I believe that anyone of us has his own gardening story, why we are growing our own stuff in our yard, some of us have had experience from a farming background, so, we have some knowledge of how a few things can grow, for this reason we are willing to have a go at gardening.

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In our kitchen gardens. 

To tell you the truth I have always done some gardening in Brisbane, sometimes I have had a good crop too, but it has been a struggle, because of the hot climate and because my soil is not good for gardening, I have used fertilizer but it does not help much, so, I have done gardening sparingly.

But, today in my old age, I am going to do more gardening in my back yard. You see, I want to grow my own vegetables, tomatoes, herbs and a few other things in my kitchen garden. I know that my soil is not that good, so, I wonder what I could do to improve it without spending too much money. In fact, I don’t like to spend money, if that is possible.

So, I am wondering what other people do, and what could cost. You see, if it costs too much, there is no point of spending money, when you are better off financially, if you go to the greengrocer and buy what you need. If that is going to be the case, then I am continuing to do my gardening in a small way as I have done before.

Therefore, I wonder how I can improve the soil, and which the best way to do it; I know a few things about this, because when I was young I have worked in my family farm in Southern Italy, but can those same principles apply in Brisbane Australia, where the climate is a lot hotter, here plants need more water to keep them growing; I know that there are lots of diseases in this hot and humid climate, so, I need good soil where plants grow fast and healthy, so that we can pick our produce before the disease sets in, for any vegetables, and also for tomatoes, capsicum, egg plants etc.

The last few years, I have tried to grow my own vegetable and tomatoes etc. But so far, I have been able to be successful only in springtime, and as soon as summer comes everything starts dying out.

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In my kitchen garden today.  

What I am growing now in my garden patch, are some purple king beans, that we are going to pick them up green, also some broad beans, as you can see from this photo beside here, I had winter vegetables that we have used, but now summer is coming, and I wonder what I can plant. The problem in Brisbane is watering, not only plants in summer need a lot of water, but there is water restriction. The water restriction applies when there is not enough water in the dams, because the climate and the raining season are unpredictable these days, so, the local government want people to save water, for that reason the price of water goes up, and people lament this increasing cost of water, so, we must be careful how we use water.

For this reason, I have worked out that I need to divert the water from the bathroom, straight into the kitchen garden patch to save water, I believe that the water from the bathtub and the vanity basin does not constitute a health hazard, when it is used to water the ground and keep it moist, I have no problem to divert this water myself, as I am a good handyman and know how to do these things; once I have done that, every time we use the bathroom to have a shower etc. a small part of the kitchen garden in being watered.

There are other things that I can do. I know that once the broad beans have been picked up, I am going to bury the stalks under to ground, because they are good for the soil, I am also going to collect all the grass clipping from the yard, and any other vegetable matter that can improve the soil, I can use fertilizer and other things, these are the things that I believe can be done, if I want to have a kitchen garden.

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 Trying to improve the soil. 

What I have done lately is this, I have compost that I have made from lawn mowing, that I placed in a large container and leaves that I have collected from my lawn and other vegetable matter, now, I have put this compost in large buckets to be used in my kitchen garden thus, I pick up one of the buckets full of compost, the compost in the bucket is not very compact, so, I fill it up with water, the water in the bucket absorbs the compost nutrients and becomes like strong tea, with this water, I water the plants in the garden and it seems to work well, it is like when you water your plants with a soluble plant fertilizer. 

Having tried this for a short while, I can add here, that my idea of using the waste water to water the garden is working well, but because we had heavy rain that lasted for three days in a row, it did not make a lot of difference, but it is a good way to water the garden in times of draught.

Here I need to add another observation, it is March 2016, this summer it has been hotter than usual, the temperature has been averaging 32-33 centigrade for several weeks, I believe that it is hotter than in the past, I have not been able to grow much in my kitchen garden, the only thing that we can grow are snake beans, so, I am waiting now for the temperature to go down, so, I can plant for the cooler season, which in Brisbane is a short season and not cold at all, so, I need to plant my plants, as soon as is becomes cool, and hope they grow well, before it becomes hot again.

So far from my observations, I believe that it is hard to grow vegetables in Brisbane, except in wintertime, but winter here is short. Anyhow, I believe that this article is becoming too long, so, I better stop.

See you soon in another article, that I am going to call, Dreams of our life. 

To see the original article with several photos click on this link, .Gardening in Brisbane. 

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