The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
Definitely sounds like a concussion with the symptoms.
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
That sounds like it's worth a visit to A&E assuming you haven't alreadyfjthegrey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 3:21 pm Got absolutely clattered at football on Saturday. Blood pouring out my nose, dizzy etc. All week since have felt miserable, the minimal focus I had has gone entirely, diet gone to ****.
Dunno what to do with myself. Maybe got a lingering concussion? My face is purple.
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
On the pitch?! Surely has to be worth a trip to A&E walk in?fjthegrey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 3:21 pm Got absolutely clattered at football on Saturday. Blood pouring out my nose, dizzy etc. All week since have felt miserable, the minimal focus I had has gone entirely, diet gone to ****.
Dunno what to do with myself. Maybe got a lingering concussion? My face is purple.
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Go to the appointment, take the meds and you'll be fine. Very high blood pressure was the main cause of my stroke a little over a year ago and I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.smuts wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 8:02 pm Going to it. Hopefully they can sort it pretty quickly with some tablets.
I know I'm overweight but can do ten minutes of crunches, high kicks, planks, etc no bother, lift 5kg of weights for 10 minutes and walk for 2 hours without getting puffed out and so on. My missus who has perfect blood pressure gets more puffed out than me on walks and she's pretty much ideal weight and is on her feet all day so I'm not a wheezing mess.
Not particularly stressed just usual work stuff but nothing onerous.
Having covid twice I don't think helped either...along with mainly sitting up the kitchen table working for over 2 years.
No wonder high BP is called the silent killer. Read that over a third of the UK has it...
Anyone else out there over 40, get your BP tested. It's better than months in hospital and even more months of rehab, I can tell you!
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
Ouch. Hope you feel better soon, fj.fjthegrey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 3:21 pm Got absolutely clattered at football on Saturday. Blood pouring out my nose, dizzy etc. All week since have felt miserable, the minimal focus I had has gone entirely, diet gone to ****.
Dunno what to do with myself. Maybe got a lingering concussion? My face is purple.
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
This, absolutely.
I've been doing some training through the FA for coaching. It advises that any head injury - and especially with those symptoms - should be dealt with on site by a first aider and (I think) an ambulance called, or at least someone else getting then to a hospital.
Worth getting checked out, FJ, and hope you feel better soon.
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
This is an intriguing subject and I confess, I know next to nothing about it. In fact, the more I try to delve into it, the more confused I become. So, can I ask a genuine innocent question? and the question I would like to ask is, How do you know when you suspect you might not be normal and have a bit of a mental health problem and might need help ? Wouldn't you think, it is others who have the problem, not you ? What are the tell tale signs?
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
IMO,
There is no 'normal'. When you find it distressing or impossible to perform routine everyday stuff, then you have a problem. There maybe a completely understandable reason for this problem (say bereavement, physical illness, relationships, work, etc)
or it can be an imbalance in your brain that makes it function in some way differently from that of the majority.
The former of the two can be treated successfully in a number of tried and tested ways, as can the latter. Both, however require a good deal of effort from both the sufferer AND those around them.
There is no 'normal'. When you find it distressing or impossible to perform routine everyday stuff, then you have a problem. There maybe a completely understandable reason for this problem (say bereavement, physical illness, relationships, work, etc)
or it can be an imbalance in your brain that makes it function in some way differently from that of the majority.
The former of the two can be treated successfully in a number of tried and tested ways, as can the latter. Both, however require a good deal of effort from both the sufferer AND those around them.
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
Tenners is right as ever, there is no normal.
A lot depends on how it effects you Puff, you mention that you may seek help which indicates it bothers you at least.
But that's the thing, how much does it bother you, for instance does it stop you functioning in a way that you would like to, or stop you enjoying things that you used to enjoy?
Or does it effect those close to you in a way that it shouldn't and you want to do something about it?
A lot depends on how it effects you Puff, you mention that you may seek help which indicates it bothers you at least.
But that's the thing, how much does it bother you, for instance does it stop you functioning in a way that you would like to, or stop you enjoying things that you used to enjoy?
Or does it effect those close to you in a way that it shouldn't and you want to do something about it?
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
There are thousands of different ways a persons mental health can be affected; being overly anxious, the incalculable number of physical manifestations of obsessive compulsive disorder, debilitating depression, extreme phobia, total emotional numbness. You can't summarise any of them in a single statement. You'd also be foolish to think about having a mental health condition as abnormal. Virtually everyone is dealing with, or will have to deal with something MH related at some point in their life. And often part of the suffering is being completely unable to process what a state of relative normalcy even is.Puff Daddy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:32 am This is an intriguing subject and I confess, I know next to nothing about it. In fact, the more I try to delve into it, the more confused I become. So, can I ask a genuine innocent question? and the question I would like to ask is, How do you know when you suspect you might not be normal and have a bit of a mental health problem and might need help ? Wouldn't you think, it is others who have the problem, not you ? What are the tell tale signs?
But perhaps the easiest way someone confused could empathize with a specific mental health condition is to imagine the most sad you've ever felt. Someone you love dying, a horrendous unexpected breakup, Payet handing in a transfer request. Now imagine that feeling, all the time, for no reason whatsoever, with no real prospects of alleviating that sadness. That is what depression can be like.
I suspect you were probably being deliberately obtuse when you asked the question in the first place anyway, and had you actually delved into the subject in any real manner you wouldn't have needed to ask the question you did. Obviously that's assuming you aren't an actual psychopath and have the ability to relate to and empathize with other people and emotions outside your own.
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For me, it's just like physical health. You can be on a wide spectrum that ranges from firing on all cylinders and in tip-top condition right through to having disabling unrelenting pain or simply not being able to function properly.
Every human being is somewhere on that scale, physically and mentally.
Every human being is somewhere on that scale, physically and mentally.
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
Let me tell you Puff, you won the lottery jackpot of life.Puff Daddy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:32 amThis is an intriguing subject and I confess, I know next to nothing about it.
Be happy & grateful you did.
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Bloke sat opposite me on the train into work this morning dropped down dead right in front of me. Crowds of people all around him, people giving CPR, off duty nurse on the train helping, AED used. Nothing. He was just sat there reading the paper on the way to work and in the blink of an eye he was a gonner.
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Sh*t, you ok, mate?sendô wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:08 am Bloke sat opposite me on the train into work this morning dropped down dead right in front of me. Crowds of people all around him, people giving CPR, off duty nurse on the train helping, AED used. Nothing. He was just sat there reading the paper on the way to work and in the blink of an eye he was a gonner.
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
Yeah. It's a bit of a shock. It certainly put all the b*llocks in my head about work today into perspective.
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Apparently the guy is okay and is in hospital. Talk about lucky. I left after they used the AED the first time, thinking he was a goner. If youre gonna have a heart attack, a train during rush hour is apparently a good place to do it.
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
Sounds more like a cardiac arrest then a heart attack and whoever it is, is extremely lucky.
Outside a hospital I think you've got about a one in ten chance of surviving an arrest.
Do tube trains actually carry a defrib on board?
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
That’s good to hear Sendo - hopefully it helps put your mind at ease more too.
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Re: The Mental Health Thread - (Help Contacts in First Post).
And you couldn’t have a better bunch of lads and lasses (?) in your corner. To me the likes of Mushy, Samba and Tenners are this forum’s (mostly) unsung and sage rocks.
Doc - seek counselling mate. It can’t harm. It can do good. I had it about 13 years ago now - I’d changed my world upside down - all on me that - but as someone who always thought they could cope I found out that I couldn’t. A combination of anti-depressants and a no-bull ****ting counsellor gave my mind just enough space to start to be able to think straighter sometimes, and then straighter more often.
DL - I’m sorry bud. If I’m the ‘adave’ you mentioned - yes, we must get that din-dins in.
You’re an amazing bunch - love you all to bits.
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Yes I agree amazing bunch of people on here kept me going through tough times.
Good luck to those of you fighting battles at the moment sending strength and hope .
Good luck to those of you fighting battles at the moment sending strength and hope .