Lennon Health Fears

Originally Posted by Fartface

What the £#%&! is wrong with you people?!

How do you sleep at night?

Originally Posted by waynes ear's

how long you got?

ffs

https://mobile.twitter.com/andyjohns...14803618779136

He's in for £12k already.

Originally Posted by Switching Off

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He's in for £12k already.

Read that as Adam then

Giggo on mental health and football:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/...hester-united/

He was deffo one of the lucky ones. One of the luckiest.. or best to have lived.

Weird existence, alright.

A fair bit of isolating themselves from public. Extreme ups and downs, living in a bubble. Then at the end of it all, reality. The dosh would help but....

Originally Posted by Denis Irwell

Weird existence, alright.

A fair bit of isolating themselves from public. Extreme ups and downs, living in a bubble. Then at the end of it all, reality. The dosh would help but....

American sport gives an example of it, I think they're expected to have an earnings career of about 4 years, maximum, on average, and then they descend into bankruptcy etc. Football is similar, nor quite the highs, a longer middle but then the descent..

Originally Posted by Chris Quayd

Giggo on mental health and football:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/...hester-united/

Institutionalised. So bit like long term prison sentence or the forces or having a severe long term illness?

Had to join a gym 30 minutes away - how does he cope getting there in his £140k Range Rover?

It's as if mental health has just been invented by footballers Collymore, Clarke Carlylse, Aaron Lennon

Life is tough for everyone

Originally Posted by The Stella Fella

Institutionalised. So bit like long term prison sentence or the forces or having a severe long term illness?

Had to join a gym 30 minutes away - how does he cope getting there in his £140k Range Rover?

It's as if mental health has just been invented by footballers Collymore, Clarke Carlylse, Aaron Lennon

Life is tough for everyone

Mental health effects everyone, no matter age or wealth...

It wasnt invented by footballers, they are just shining a light on a subject that requires all the exposure it can..
it's one of the biggest killers of men in the uk..

Originally Posted by Chris Quayd

Giggo on mental health and football:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/...hester-united/

Giggs and co - Didnt leave the house for two days after a loss.

Shit@#%&!s - instagram and twitter and on the town

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Mental health effects everyone, no matter age or wealth...

It wasnt invented by footballers, they are just shining a light on a subject that requires all the exposure it can..
it's one of the biggest killers of men in the uk..

Agree with you Bunks completely - not with the shining light of footballers who lets be right have access to treatment and experts wherever they turn just annoys me th way they talk as if no one else suffers or has a right to

Soap box shout over

Originally Posted by The Stella Fella

- not with the shining light of footballers who lets be right have access to treatment and experts wherever they turn just annoys me

Treatments and help doesn't make a jot of difference to some people though..

Mental health doesn't go easy on you because you used to play with John Barnes,
You don't get admitted to the priory or get given one 2 one help because you were part of the 'crazy gang'

It's a disease that doesn't pick its victim based on anything..

I think it's good footballers are coming out and talking about it.

Originally Posted by The Stella Fella

Institutionalised. So bit like long term prison sentence or the forces or having a severe long term illness?

Had to join a gym 30 minutes away - how does he cope getting there in his £140k Range Rover?

It's as if mental health has just been invented by footballers Collymore, Clarke Carlylse, Aaron Lennon

Life is tough for everyone

Not as easy as that. If you're ill you are ill. With nothing to do to fill their time it is harder than us 'normal lot' who have a routine and bills that keep us busy.

Bunks nailing it.

Originally Posted by Mr_Ed

With nothing to do to fill their time it is harder than us 'normal lot' who have a routine and bills that keep us busy.

Oh £#%&! off

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Mental health effects everyone, no matter age or wealth...

It wasnt invented by footballers, they are just shining a light on a subject that requires all the exposure it can..
it's one of the biggest killers of men in the uk..

Spot on.

I've been to a few conferences on this subject and there is definitely more help out there now.

Some of the stories are heartbreaking.

The more exposure this subjects gets the better.

There's still a massive stigma attached to mental health, and I'd say more so for men than women.

"What have you got to be depressed about? You just need to pull yourself together".

As said to me by a nurse.

Originally Posted by Fat Al

There's still a massive stigma attached to mental health, and I'd say more so for men than women.

"What have you got to be depressed about? You just need to pull yourself together".

As said to me by a nurse.

Angels aren't they?

Originally Posted by Fat Al

There's still a massive stigma attached to mental health, and I'd say more so for men than women.

"What have you got to be depressed about? You just need to pull yourself together".

As said to me by a nurse.

Had you just told her you thought you were a pair of curtains?