Sneag wrote:Mental health is important, but so a mental strength and as a society we seem to be sadly lacking it.
Now I'm not an advocate of telling people to man up and a strong cuppa will mate it all better in the face of real trauma and you can't underestimate the long term effects of stress, teauma & loss. But fer forks sake, the slightest little setback in live now & everybody is running for their safe space.
We've got people at work going off with stress because they get asked to do their job, nothing above & beyond, just what's in the job description. God help them when they face a real crisis.
yorkstag wrote:Wow! I thought the programme was thought provoking?
The initial response is quite frankly shocking
tinman wrote:Sneag wrote:Mental health is important, but so a mental strength and as a society we seem to be sadly lacking it.
Now I'm not an advocate of telling people to man up and a strong cuppa will mate it all better in the face of real trauma and you can't underestimate the long term effects of stress, teauma & loss. But fer forks sake, the slightest little setback in live now & everybody is running for their safe space.
We've got people at work going off with stress because they get asked to do their job, nothing above & beyond, just what's in the job description. God help them when they face a real crisis.
Good post
I'd dispear if today's generation is conscripted into armed service to protect the country
Sneag wrote:Mental health is important, but so a mental strength and as a society we seem to be sadly lacking it.
Now I'm not an advocate of telling people to man up and a strong cuppa will mate it all better in the face of real trauma and you can't underestimate the long term effects of stress, teauma & loss. But fer forks sake, the slightest little setback in live now & everybody is running for their safe space.
We've got people at work going off with stress because they get asked to do their job, nothing above & beyond, just what's in the job description. God help them when they face a real crisis.
Jamie wrote:I agree with what Sneag is trying to say. With less stigma, more openness and acceptance comes people either taking the pish with it or over playing their situation.
A good lesson to 'normal people' to take away from the show was that despite all these famous and skilled people having problems, secret or otherwise, they all got on with their jobs and did their best.
Too often now people feel down, depressed or whatever and use it as an excuse to give up. As time goes on the message needs to be that we all suffer with anxiety, forms of depression etc but that you must keep going, but get help and support to rationalise how you feel.
Just to add to that I get there are different forms of this and some are very serious, and putting a brave face on isn't always possible. What I'd like to know is what percentage of people get those very severe effects though. If you went by what the media or social media are pushing you'd think it was a far bigger percentage than it probably is
Amber Andy wrote:Going back to Yorkstag's original point.
I'm sure most of our players felt devastated that they failed to get promotion especially after all the seasons hard work they have put in. So they would probably, like most of us when we fail, felt they were useless. To have some so called fans shouting at them, telling they were useless can't have helped the situation.
Having said that the majority of fans who stayed behind, did applaud them as they left the field.
Sneag wrote:I'm in no way playing down the seriousness of mental health issues. But have we gone full circle where we are looking at normal human emotion as an illness.
I've had my own traumas in the past that still affect me on and off. But isn't it 'normal' to feel raspberries after an event.
Grief is a natural coping mechanism surely.
Modern life is stressful, no doubt, but wouldn't learning cope with stress be more effective than going to the GP for meds?
I don't think you can play down how stressful the 'old days' were. The generation of my parents had s 5 year spell where they could be randomly killed at any minute. They worked in hard life shortening jobs, had a raspberries diet and a crappy standard of living. Were they are broken inside, or were they just better at coping? I dunno.
All I'm saying is not every setback in life is a cue for an outbreak of mental illness. Apologies to anyone I've offended, that wasn't my intention.
Sneag wrote:I'm in no way playing down the seriousness of mental health issues. But have we gone full circle where we are looking at normal human emotion as an illness.
I've had my own traumas in the past that still affect me on and off. But isn't it 'normal' to feel raspberries after an event.
Grief is a natural coping mechanism surely.
Modern life is stressful, no doubt, but wouldn't learning cope with stress be more effective than going to the GP for meds?
I don't think you can play down how stressful the 'old days' were. The generation of my parents had s 5 year spell where they could be randomly killed at any minute. They worked in hard life shortening jobs, had a raspberries diet and a crappy standard of living. Were they are broken inside, or were they just better at coping? I dunno.
All I'm saying is not every setback in life is a cue for an outbreak of mental illness. Apologies to anyone I've offended, that wasn't my intention.
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