Mental Health/Depression

[burnden]

Hope your dad is going to be ok @gonzo

[London Wanderer]

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

Not half....

My old man had a TIA on Sunday. He's had a few of em but this symptoms seemed a lot worse. I basically had to pester him to go to docs. He went yesterday morning and was sent straight to The Vic.

He was there in A&E from 11am till half 9 last night. I was there with him from tea time. It was like fucking Beirut.

Ambulances stacked up outside basically being used as holding pens. Wankers kicking off all over the gaff and poor nurses at their wits end.

My old man was after leaving but luckily I made him stay. They let him go after a CT scan but today he had to go the TIA clinic where the consultant has gone bonkers that they didn't keep him in and put him on a ward...

There was nowhere to put him. Some lass we were talking to had been waiting for a bed for 30 hours 😳

Absolute carnage and only on a Monday.

Place was littered with folk who had fuck all wrong with em.

Christ

And on a Monday. Could have been bad, glad to hear he’s okay. 

 

[Casino]

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

Place was littered with folk who had fuck all wrong with em.

elaborate?

literally nowt wrong or shouldnt be in A+E

[gonzo]

19 minutes ago, Casino said:

elaborate?

literally nowt wrong or shouldnt be in A+E

Drunks from town sobering up, some lass having a panic attack in her Pyjamas, another demanding tests for reasons unknown. 

Nurse was telling us about a lass who'd stubbed her toe waiting for hours 

When I was a kid you'd have to be actually on fire to even think about going to A&E.

If they charged you for going in there would be half the people there. It's just a day out for some.

 

[Casino]

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

 

If they charged you for going in there would be half the people there. It's just a day out for some.

 

Nah, if you are on benefits, itd be free

 

 

[bolton_blondie]

2 hours ago, gonzo said:

Drunks from town sobering up, some lass having a panic attack in her Pyjamas, another demanding tests for reasons unknown. 

Nurse was telling us about a lass who'd stubbed her toe waiting for hours 

When I was a kid you'd have to be actually on fire to even think about going to A&E.

If they charged you for going in there would be half the people there. It's just a day out for some.

 

So when we visit a patient and get no access, we can see on our system if they are in A&E waiting to be seen. A good 60% of the patients are either drug or drink related and usually repeat offenders. It’s sad.

I’ve just done an essay on comparing the health needs of Blackpool and East Cheshire. Most of the prominent concerns came down to poverty and mental health issues, alcoholism and drug use stemming from them (Blondie, 2024). It’s so bloody shit. 

Oh and I smashed it with 68% 🤓(I’m still shit at referencing) 

[gonzo]

Good effort

Think Blackpool tops the list nationwide for suicide, anti depressants, drug use, poverty and crime.

And not a raygun in sight.

#proud 

 

[PatrickBateman]

Get some exercise

Join a gym

Stop being a fat fuck eating chip butties for breakfast

You'll feel better ❤️ 

[kent_white]

23 minutes ago, bolton_blondie said:

So when we visit a patient and get no access, we can see on our system if they are in A&E waiting to be seen. A good 60% of the patients are either drug or drink related and usually repeat offenders. It’s sad.

I’ve just done an essay on comparing the health needs of Blackpool and East Cheshire. Most of the prominent concerns came down to poverty and mental health issues, alcoholism and drug use stemming from them (Blondie, 2024). It’s so bloody shit. 

Oh and I smashed it with 68% 🤓(I’m still shit at referencing) 

That's ace Blondie. And 68% puts you on for a first doesn't it? 

I'd be interested to have a read of it if you feel comfortable sharing it? My job is all based around health inequalities 

[bolton_blondie]

17 minutes ago, kent_white said:

That's ace Blondie. And 68% puts you on for a first doesn't it? 

I'd be interested to have a read of it if you feel comfortable sharing it? My job is all based around health inequalities 

I can forward it if you like? Send me your email

[gonzo]

Just read Graham Thorpe killed himself

[MancWanderer]

11 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Just read Graham Thorpe killed himself

Aye. Just read the same. Very saddening 

[jeep]

Thought he had by the way it was reported. Sad news.....

[Tonge moor green jacket]

24 minutes ago, jeep said:

Thought he had by the way it was reported. Sad news.....

It never occurred to me.

Assumed he'd been ill with the big C or something. 

I would never have had an inkling about his issues, given his playing and coaching career.

Having said that, I didn't with Speed neither.

Terrible thing.

[Sweep]

A friend of mine took her own life a few weeks ago. Her husband died of COVID a couple of years ago. There were no outward signs at all that she was struggling, in fact she was almost always the life and soul of any gathering. She hung herself. Only 51 years old.

Its just horrible. 

It transpires, after her husband had died, the life insurance didn't pay out and she was spiralling into more and more debt,so that may have been what pushed her over the edge. 

She leaves a 12 years old son, who now doesn't have any parents, and who now has been packed off to live with his uncle, 50 miles away from all his friends,the poor chap. 

 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Grim story.

Obvious question- why didn't the insurance pay out?

Seems bloody cruel. 

[Sweep]

20 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Grim story.

Obvious question- why didn't the insurance pay out?

Seems bloody cruel. 

Apparently, Brian (the husband) didn't declare a pre-existing condition. He went in hospital with liver failure (I think) then COVID got to him, whilst in Lister Hospital. He'd always been a heavy drinker, and been told his liver was fucked, but he kept on drinking, and didn't advise his life insurance people. 

Michelle (the wife) knew nothing about his condition either. Apparently a few months before on a lads golfing holiday to Portugal, he'd collapsed and spent 2 or 3 days in hospital. He then swore all the lads who went to secrecy......hence Michele was none the wiser

 

 

Edited August 12, 2024 by Sweep

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Kinell!

What a mess.

[Dr Faustus]

5 hours ago, Sweep said:

A friend of mine took her own life a few weeks ago. Her husband died of COVID a couple of years ago. There were no outward signs at all that she was struggling, in fact she was almost always the life and soul of any gathering. She hung herself. Only 51 years old.

Its just horrible. 

It transpires, after her husband had died, the life insurance didn't pay out and she was spiralling into more and more debt,so that may have been what pushed her over the edge. 

She leaves a 12 years old son, who now doesn't have any parents, and who now has been packed off to live with his uncle, 50 miles away from all his friends,the poor chap. 

 

I feel shit today, and that has made me feel a shit loads worse. Still some perspective to be had… poor woman, poor kid

[gonzo]

What a horrendous situation @Sweep:(

[Zico]

On 12/08/2024 at 08:32, gonzo said:

Just read Graham Thorpe killed himself

Threw himself in front of a train 

Knew a lad from Horwich who did the same back in the late 90s 

Think he might be the only person I've ever known personally to kill themselves 

And at the time one of the last people you'd expect to do such a thing such was his persona 

Definitely kept it all in 

[athywhite1958]

One of our mates did the same, walked in front of a train, he was originally the 97th Hillsborough victim, he gave his mate his ticket to the semi final who died there, the guilt was so much he killed himself

[Nowack]

22 hours ago, Sweep said:

Apparently, Brian (the husband) didn't declare a pre-existing condition. He went in hospital with liver failure (I think) then COVID got to him, whilst in Lister Hospital. He'd always been a heavy drinker, and been told his liver was fucked, but he kept on drinking, and didn't advise his life insurance people. 

Michelle (the wife) knew nothing about his condition either. Apparently a few months before on a lads golfing holiday to Portugal, he'd collapsed and spent 2 or 3 days in hospital. He then swore all the lads who went to secrecy......hence Michele was none the wiser

 

 

Pretty awful way to find out we had mutual friends. Used to see them in the White Lion a lot, pre covid and their son and mine would play together. Latterly, would see Michelle at different scouting and football things and then in The Cock with another friend of mine. It was a genuine moment when you feel as though you had been punched in the chest when my daughter told me what had happened. I didn't know what had happened to the lad, he is a nice kid and my thoughts were obviously with him and what he must have been going through, but it is a little comforting to know he is with family, I hope he is well. 

Edited August 13, 2024 by Nowack
White Lion not White Horse

[Dr Faustus]

45 minutes ago, Zico said:

Threw himself in front of a train 

Knew a lad from Horwich who did the same back in the late 90s 

Think he might be the only person I've ever known personally to kill themselves 

And at the time one of the last people you'd expect to do such a thing such was his persona 

Definitely kept it all in 

growing up in LH in the 90s it was almost par for the course; can recall 6 people in the space of a few years- both kids and adults. No counselling or discussions around it, thank goodness times have changed

[Sweep]

35 minutes ago, Nowack said:

Pretty awful way to find out we had mutual friends. Used to see them in the White Lion a lot, pre covid and their son and mine would play together. Latterly, would see Michelle at different scouting and football things and then in The Cock with another friend of mine. It was a genuine moment when you feel as though you had been punched in the chest when my daughter told me what had happened. I didn't know what had happened to the lad, he is a nice kid and my thoughts were obviously with him and what he must have been going through, but it is a little comforting to know he is with family, I hope he is well. 

Sad times mate, sad times indeed. 😢 Oliver is doing OK (as well as can be expected) so I understand. The "Gofundme" set up for him, for us future, is currently at over £23K,which hopefully can give him a bit of a start, once he's old enough to go to college/uni or whatever.