Good afternoon.
Certain conditions lack that essential wow factor. Depression like dementia, is one of those conditions that just sort of only nearly exists in the consciousness of far too many people.
Of course, it’s easier to identify with something you can see. Probably why the RSPCA do such continuously brisk business. You can see from the ribs sticking out and the beaten look in its eyes that a dog has been abused.
Yet Granddad forgetting your daughter’s name is probably just down to him being overtired. Your brother’s reluctance to go to work is down to his bone idol gene which you first spotted when he was about fifteen.
Christoper Hitchens I mention for obvious reasons today to highlight that cancer is visable. One of the most wonderful polemicists and orators of my lifetime physically reduced to a speechless, balding wreck.
The shuffling and the dull thud you can now hear is me jumping on the depression bandwagon. Nothing duller of course than the woes of others so I’ll spare you the details. But this is why I’m running this. I’ve seen the look on the faces of my own family members who simply do not get it. The lethargy and blackness cannot be communicated. And when you’re next spotted in your ‘usual’ great form, it’s as if this somehow weakens your case…
Trying to convey the tangible nature of depression to anyone who hasn’t experienced it is neither straightforward or rewarding. Trying to explain how utterly miserable and cut off from absolutely everything in your life you feel is like trying to get someone to replicate a great work of art by describing it over the phone. ‘Err… It’s an oil painting of a bird with long black hair, a moody sort but with just the hint of a smile.’
Two recent tragedies triggered by depression to hit football have been well documented. In the instance of Dale Roberts, it was pretty obvious that his wife cheating on him with then Rushden & Diamonds team mate Paul Terry caused him kill himself. Gary Speed’s trigger to end his life has yet to be revealed.
Stan Collymore was unable to broadcast recently. There will be some who will struggle to sympathize. I mean no one was asking him to do a 12 hour split shift on minimum wage in particularly grueling working conditions. How ‘depressed’ would you have to be to find yourself unable to blather on about football for a couple of hours? If you read this far and are asking that class of question then you won’t find the answer reading the remainder of this page.
Depression Alliance UK strike me as decent folk. And Stan has stepped up and galvanized a quite staggering array of footballers and football related organizations into donating money cannot buy prizes to a truly incredible raffle to help DA UK.
Full details are HERE and the prizes include Sporting Bet offering Corporate Hospitality at White Hart Lane and Jermaine Defoe has donating a match worn shirt. There are PFA Awards tickets, Soccer AM tickets and much much more.
It’s a fiver to be in it.
Given the same set of circumstances what would you say? A scabbybastard pressscum, asks if you’re happy getting dropped despite playing well? and you reply what exactly? Yes, I’m really happy to keep improving my play, scoring goals..then getting benched or, sod this, I’ve gotta move on, because regardless how I play, I’ll never be given a run!” as for going to the press or the press going to him (far more likely), it’s neither here nor there, he’s just telling it like it is. But my main point was a the originator of this post, who uses each and every opportunity to slate the guy, yet is strangely quiet when he gets us out of the kack with some superb displays this season!
Harry Horspur commenting on Gary Speed recently: I am of a very similar frame of mind.
Speed’s death was nothing shy of sad, but in the final analysis he wasn’t shot down in a drive by killing.
He was a comfortably off middle class bloke with a nice wife & family.Therefore him deciding to top himself was ultimately just another deeply selfish act of someone in great pain, but someone with children who may never know why daddy isn’t ever coming home again.
I don’t do martyrs. false or otherwise.”
And now you write this shit!? You’ve got some fucking nerve.
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