Bugger me that's shit. All the best. (for what it's worth, which I accept isn't much)
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[Misc] dealing with depression
- Thread starter desprateseagull
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Bugger me that's shit. All the best. (for what it's worth, which I accept isn't much)
sydney
tinky ****in winky
thanks....it's manageable apparently but still a head @@@@
Eric Potts
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Absolutely. Depression is a life-threatening mental illness. Your emotions after your team have been beaten , are normal ( in the main ) You generally won’t end up thinking that the people who love you , and are closest to you ,would be better off if you were dead.
sydney
tinky ****in winky
you will be well again ....and that's a fact , life is full of ups and downs , some get them worse than others , just accept that you can't be on top of your game all the time..
I'm actually feeling depressed that Aussie fans will be sent over a tipping point into depression because their national socceroos lost in the Group round of the WC. You are correct. I'm a sad case of mental empathy fatigue.
I realise my post was a bit of an incoherent and cryptic ramble but just to clarify, the uncontrollable events I was referring to weren't happening in the wider world but are much closer and more personally affecting. Thanks for your response though.
desprateseagull
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Lesson from all this- don't let it fester, talk to someone about it. Partner, family, doctor, and/or boss at work- the latter has a duty of care for their staff.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Interesting read on psilocybin (found in magic mushrooms) and psychadelic drugs harbouring great potential in treating depression and related illnesses: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44575139
Mr Banana
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AmexRuislip
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What it is to love football.......
How my mental illness helped me rediscover what it is to love football.
It was at secondary school where I first encountered any significant dislike of football – not surprising at a rugby-playing grammar that lists multiple England internationals among its alumni, but a rather alien concept to me nonetheless.
My 12-year-old self’s overt obsession with the round-ball game didn’t go down too well with everyone, and one particularly confrontational classmate’s question has stuck with me. “Does your life revolve around football?”
I don’t recall my response, but he could ask me again now – and I wouldn’t feel sad in answering with a firm “yes”, either.
Seeing the light
Football – or more specifically, Wycombe Wanderers – serves as an immovable cornerstone of my life today. That hasn’t constantly been the case, but it took struggling with my mental health for me to see that my love had diminished.
I’ve been going to watch Wycombe since I was eight, and had a season ticket at Adams Park for several years, but I stopped being a regular sometime during the 2009/10 campaign. For a 15-year-old back then, following your local team wasn’t exactly cool, and my baseless fondness for Liverpool – which I construed as ‘support’ in my complicated, developing mind – took precedence.
Sure, I continued to attend occasional Wanderers games, but I no longer had a seat to call my own. Do I regret it? Looking back now and after what I’ve been through, definitely.
Inspiring stuff
Read more at https://www.fourfourtwo.com/feature...ver-what-it-love-football#1FlKBgEbyxjAYJB0.99
How my mental illness helped me rediscover what it is to love football.
It was at secondary school where I first encountered any significant dislike of football – not surprising at a rugby-playing grammar that lists multiple England internationals among its alumni, but a rather alien concept to me nonetheless.
My 12-year-old self’s overt obsession with the round-ball game didn’t go down too well with everyone, and one particularly confrontational classmate’s question has stuck with me. “Does your life revolve around football?”
I don’t recall my response, but he could ask me again now – and I wouldn’t feel sad in answering with a firm “yes”, either.
Seeing the light
Football – or more specifically, Wycombe Wanderers – serves as an immovable cornerstone of my life today. That hasn’t constantly been the case, but it took struggling with my mental health for me to see that my love had diminished.
I’ve been going to watch Wycombe since I was eight, and had a season ticket at Adams Park for several years, but I stopped being a regular sometime during the 2009/10 campaign. For a 15-year-old back then, following your local team wasn’t exactly cool, and my baseless fondness for Liverpool – which I construed as ‘support’ in my complicated, developing mind – took precedence.
Sure, I continued to attend occasional Wanderers games, but I no longer had a seat to call my own. Do I regret it? Looking back now and after what I’ve been through, definitely.
Inspiring stuff
Read more at https://www.fourfourtwo.com/feature...ver-what-it-love-football#1FlKBgEbyxjAYJB0.99