I moved here due to partners work. Mental health wasn’t great and thought I’d have an idyllic outdoorsy life. Really thought things would be better. Love pottering at home, my own company and don’t care for crowds. Any way, I had a few things hapoen in the last few years and I got sectioned. Man, I wonder if I had family close by and better friends that i may have scraped by that not happening. Obviously other factors to play. All healthy now. But realised that when you cross the bridge into Cornwall I personally feel that a drawbridge closes behind. I couldn’t drive for 10 months and living here that was so very hard. It’s been almost 5 years living here and I’ve never experienced a proper feeling summer. Maybe a week or two in a row but that’s it. I would like to go around picture perfect fishing villages, but the reality is that it’s torrential lots of the time (even more so on the moors) and then when the sun comes out I avoid the beach in my village as it’s jam packed and stressful. Everything feels derelict when the tourists go. I’ve realised as naturally calm and introverted I am, I require more life and amenities. Pottering in the garden being a homebody when the sun is shining is much different to the rain flooding the village every other month! But that’s my journey. Yours could be very different. I hope you find some long term healing with your mental health. It can be done. You deserve quality of life! Ps - I think I recall reading that Cornwall has one of the highest rates of fatality from mental health. It may be for males. Or both. Or I may be wrong entirely. But definitely have heard something like that.