Mental Health Awareness Week 2019

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This year there is a focus on body image.

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week

Least we forget, the main cause of death of men under the age of 45 is suicide. And IMHO a good way to head off this sad statistic is for everyone to have the courage to talk about mental health issues.

The host on the radio just stated "if I broke my arm in a mountain bike accident over the weekend and I struggled to get into work because of it I'd be telling you all about it... if I had an anxiety attack over the weekend and struggled to get into work because of it... probably not so much."

This is the 21st Century we should be getting passed these archaic attitudes.
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Does riding a bike make people .. um... go a bit mad - or does it attract those who already are.
(semi serious question, there seems to be a higher % with some issues)

Maybe it's not out of normal range considering preponderance of age group mentioned ^

I've often felt going out on the bike helps keep me sane as it's good thinking time away from distractions.

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I lost a good friend of mine 2 years ago to suicide. He would have been 36 yesterday. We had no idea he was feeling the way he did and our group of friends were gutted when we found out.

It sucks that it took this incident for us to open up about our issues and to reach out when things aren't that great, no matter how trivial.
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Previous: Honda CBR929RR, Honda CBR1100XX, Honda CB600F

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Most of my friends ride bikes, and more than half have been diagnosed with depression at some point or other, myself included. This is higher than the national average of one in four, so there could be something in it re. the mentality of people who ride bikes. I was diagnosed with a deficit of serotonin and for a while the only way I could 'get my kicks' was by doing daft things...

Either that or I am such a miserable bastard that I suck the fun out of everybody's lives
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Gone (in order of ownership) - Raleigh Runabout, AP50, KH125, GP125, KH250, CBX550, Z400, CB750FII, 250LC, GS550, ZXR750H1, Guzzi Targa, GSX750F, KH250 x2, Bimota SB6R and counting...

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Riding across London I certainly get the impression all 125 scooter riders have a deathwish. Not sure how to couch that in psychological terms!

But regarding motorbikes, given the percentage ownership versus cars, I think we can safely say, at the very least, that bikers tend to be "non-conformists" or "unconventional."

But as Russell Brand would say "we're all on the spectrum."
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[leolion]

Yep i have a problem (as youve all already guessed) i have to rationalize everything yet i brought a motorbike..im still have trouble.

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Are you saying you feel getting a motorbike is an irrational thing? Is it specifically you that feels that way or is it a reaction you get from those around you?
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[Polarbear]

I'd love to know if the mental health issues we have nowadays are purely due to the fact we are more aware of them and have been ongoing for many years.

Is it the modern society that is driving people to some form of breakdown or is it the modern trends of having to label everything actually pushing people into a place they don't want to be?

Something is seriously wrong and I don't think the so called experts know what it is.
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[Ste]

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[Bubbs]

I'm a mental case... Been an anxiety and depression sufferer for a long time.

I think the biggest issue for most is the feeling of not having a purpose. It's way too easy to come to the realisation that there's no point to anything. You get to an age where you've achieved the key milestones e.g. wife, marriage, house, car, kids... and then you think.. "Well what now?”. You reach a crisis point of, what the fuck is the point to any of this?, why am I here?

The days begin to feel like they’re zooming by, and you’re leading a ‘groundhog day’ like existence, feeling like you’ve contributed fuck all to the world. You work a job that you accidentally fell into, you’re 40 years old, half your life is gone (if you’re lucky) and you still don’t know what you want to do when you get older. You start to see the world for what it is… no one has a clue why we’re here, everyone is best guessing their way through life, hoping not to fall into a trap. There are so many traps…

There’s the materialism trap, a false purpose. People believing that making money to buy things will make them happy… They buy the thing they wanted for so long and within a week they are bored of it… “now what?... Oh a bigger shinier thing… let’s get that.” It’s no wonder lotto winners kill themselves, they no longer have that thing to save up for, they can now have all the things right now, and then they quickly see the trap for what it is as they are robbed of their purpose.

Then there’s the retirement trap, you see people a few years older than you looking forward to retirement… their purpose being to reach that magical milestone… “I’ll just endure another 10 years of this shit and I’ll be free to enjoy myself”. Then these people reach retirement age completely lost and depressed, no longer with a job that was giving them a sense of value/purpose to begin with. “What the fuck do I do now?... swallow the end of this shotgun is what”

We’re a world of lost souls, blindly bumping through life until death finally takes us.

Finding purpose… finding what truly drives people needs to be cultivated at primary school level and practised throughout life. I think this would cure a lot of the worlds ills.

I think the way it should work is the following. In primary school kids should try a variety of pursuits, from mental to physical to design, they should try everything and those that they excel at are recorded. Whichever pursuits are recorded should be the ones they follow at secondary school age. As they get older they slowly get narrow in on the pursuit which brings them the most joy, and in doing so brings most good to the world. Key skills like maths/English etc. can be taught as a secondary skill.. For example a child who has an affinity to carpentry can learn maths as a by-product of becoming a better carpenter.. Working out how to cut angles, make measurements etc… Maths then makes a fuck load more sense as it’s used in a way that makes sense to real world situations.

Anyway I’ve gone off on a ramble. I think about this shit a lot, which is probably why I’m prone to depression.
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Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

[Ste]

There is no purpose.

[Bubbs]

[Diggs]

It is true. In the olden days we had the term 'eccentric' which covered the various spectrums, plus depression was simply 'blues'.

I did read that the reason more people suffer from mental issues nowadays is that we haven't evolved to process and deal with the amount of information we do. Back in cave-man days all we had to worry about was food, sex and somewhere dry to kip, whereas nowadays we have millions of additional sources of information to deal with each day.
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Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
Gone (in order of ownership) - Raleigh Runabout, AP50, KH125, GP125, KH250, CBX550, Z400, CB750FII, 250LC, GS550, ZXR750H1, Guzzi Targa, GSX750F, KH250 x2, Bimota SB6R and counting...

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[leolion]

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So what is it with modern life which is making this issue grow? Pressure to live up to the image of the good life portrayed by the media and to keep away from the perceived victim status?

There certainly seems to be an obsession to create victims now, such as "period poverty", when tampons are 5 pence each and a year's supply can be bought for less than a £10 smartphone PAYG top up.
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Well the main thing is Roxanne Pallet finally got another gig after "hehitmegate".
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[bhinso]

I don't necessarily think bikes and MH problems are linked, you need to take a completely random population pool.
For example, I've heard a lot of the negativity towards Cannabis is explained by "Research shows it causes MH problems."
Possibly people already have MH problems, and find that the odd joint tends to help?

Also, yes a lot of MH problems were addressed under "eccentricity, grumpy, etc. before". My experience is that those who haven't experienced it themselves tend not to understand it, and would tell the sufferer to "Get a grip". I say this because that's how i used to think.

For example, I wouldn't expect someone like mpd (no offense) to understand it in others, and would just say that words have been invented to make excuses for ineptitude etc. these days.