Young West End man missing...

[Deleted]

Could Westenders pls copy this into your social networking sites...this boy's been missing since Friday.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21480394

Ross is a young musician who lives in Maryhill. From a decent family who are all very very concerned about his welfare.

Please help, if you can.

[Deleted]

Update from the polis tonight;

news.stv.tv/scotland/214471-ross-ramsay-police-seek-three-people-who-may-have-seen-missing-man/

Please, Westenders, help spread the word.
Thank you.

[Deleted]

Still no news of Ross.

I know one of his aunts and other extended family--and about the detail that's been made public today by his mother and brother.

You can imagine why we are all are trying so hard to help locate him and have hope that he's safe somewhere.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21536287

Ross is quite distinctive, tall, lanky with a mop of red hair. Please look out for him, Westenders.

Thank you.

[westender]

Have spread the message as far as I can...

:-(

[Deleted]

Thanks, Westie.

[Deleted]

Ross's body was found in the river Clyde last night.

A bright, sparky, talented, decent, loved and loving young man.

I can't find the words to express my sadness for him, his family and friends.

[bormes]

Terrible, Rolo, I have no words to express the sadness for his family.

[westender]

Sad news. Poor kid.

"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill himself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill himself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

David Foster Wallace

[Deleted]

Poor kid indeed, Westie. Depression's an illness that can happen to anyone, but still seen by too many as some kind of 'weakness'.

Isn't it time we put as much importance on mental health as we do physical health? Still that stigma remains, it seems to me, with men age 20-50 being the least likely to seek help and the most likely to take that final step.

Such pressure on people to be fantastic at everything, to be winners, to be wealthy, good looking, popular and successful it's really no wonder people increasingly can't handle it and turn to other 'solutions'.

There's no good coming out of Ross Ramsay's story other than that hundreds upon hundreds of people helped to raise the alarm via social networking. And felt for him and his.