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whether you think he's a national treasure or a self indulgent lovey, it was refreshing to see something so frank about mental health issues on at peak time on BBC1
something we don't openly discuss enough of in our up tight, button downed nation society and beggars belief that in 2016 that it still comes with a stigma attached as 1 in 4 of us will suffer from mental health issues each year.
he was focusing on bi-polar, a particularly cruel illness that interferes with your life and has massive repercussions on the person you are, in the way that severe mental illnesses like this and schizophrenia does.
however there are also hundreds of thousands of other people in this country (myself included) who suffer from anxiety, depression, OCD, suicidal ideation or one of the many other challenges our brains bestow upon us, and programs like this can only help to get mental health issues out into the main stream, when we still don't wont to talk about it or support up our health service to deal with it (despite what ham face said today - very little very late)
these numbers aren't far behind cancer and the reaction from society and the resources that go into it are wildly different
i guess i don't really have a point, other than why aren't we talking about it more when it effects so many of us and this seems like a good place to start
bugger - wrong forum again -mods please change
EDIT - thanks mods
Maybe not so much in real life/talking to people you know personally, but it is regularly talked about on here.
The people who start the threads usually get lots of excellent advice and help.
Maybe not so much in real life/talking to people you know personally, but it is regularly talked about on here
indeed, i've seen a few of the posts in the past and in general everyone is very supportive and helpful where they can be. but these seem to be at moments of crisis or in acute states where possibly the lack of "real" people (ie a non online relationship), or concern about talking to wider world drive people to the anonymity of web forums.
why does it have to get to the point where you need to rely on online strangers to seek advice about something so serious?
to break down the stigma and barriers, and therefore really get the size of the problem out there, why can't we just be open and matter of fact about it and discuss it normally, in non crisis mode??
again, not sure if i have a point, but just strikes me that a program like tonight should be so few and far between and we should talk about it more.
if it helps, i'll get the ball rolling - i've been prone to depression and anxiety disorders for most of my adult life in fits and starts. it was only after some particularly acute episodes a few years ago that i actually finally got some help (going privately for therapy after several years of the nhs pushing pills onto me because it was the cheapest option) that i realized all my self medicating behaviors (primarily booze and coke) accentuated the issues and controlled my behaviors and destroyed the few helpful behaviors i had (ie getting out on my bike all the time).
now this might all sound like self indulgent, look at me look at me twaddle, and i may be slow on the uptake, but i guess my point is if we were openly talking about this stuff i genuinely don't think it would of taken me until my 40's to get to this point. these thinks build up over many years of unhelpful thought processes, why are we not nipping them in the bus?
*uses own experience as an example - OP genuinely not normally this self obsessed*
I'll try and watch this tonight....
Been having a bit of a low moment recently... Bills coming left, right and centre means I'm pretty brassic at the moment, can't remember the last time I my account was down to three figures (had nigh on 10k in my account at the beginning of the year, all of it gone after a series of bills)... Couple that with the fact that work has slowed down massively (my next job is the end of March). Plus not being where I want to be with regards to location,job and my physical condition (have lost several kilos since the beginning of the year by eating less and knocking the beer on its head. . Not easy in Bavaria! But my body aches... A combination of long days in a cold workshop, heavy lifting and no sport to balance it out).
The lack of sunlight and sport don't help much either.
Fortunately the GF is solid and can see the recent changes in me. She's arranged that i bugger off down south for a few days with a good friend for some snowkiting, riding, hiking and sauna.
Bit of a verbal stream of nothing but it's good to see it written down... Gives me some perspective.