World Mental Health Day - Norwich City

[Since452]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but came across this on Linkedin earlier and was so moved that i wanted to share it on here. Very powerful and well worth a watch. I'm sure a lot of us can relate.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gvnbeard_youarenotalone-worldmentalhealthday-activity-7117461228360228864-UYTO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Hopefully link works

[Paloschi]

[QUOTE=Since452;7485459]Not sure if this is the right place to post this but came across this on Linkedin earlier and was so moved that i wanted to share it on here. Very powerful and well worth a watch. I'm sure a lot of us can relate.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gvnbeard_youarenotalone-worldmentalhealthday-activity-7117461228360228864-UYTO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Thanks for sharing. Very moving.

[eastterrace]

Wow that was hard hitting, you just don’t know what some people are going thru.

[wookie70]

[QUOTE=Since452;7485459]Not sure if this is the right place to post this but came across this on Linkedin earlier and was so moved that i wanted to share it on here. Very powerful and well worth a watch. I'm sure a lot of us can relate.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gvnbeard_youarenotalone-worldmentalhealthday-activity-7117461228360228864-UYTO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Thanks for sharing. Very moving.

Very powerful and moving. I have had some troubles with depression over the years and football is like that. You can be transported to a different place and feel completely free for a couple of hours as your mind turns to the troubles and triumphs of Hibs. When I was feeling really grim I could still burst with joy when a derby goal went in.

[heidtheba]

I'm going to go off-piste for a football forum here, so I hope all of this is ok to say.

I really appreciated that share. The Norwich City team did a really good job with that. It really does bring it home doesn't it?

I haven't been at a Hibs game for years. My ST days were back in the mid-90s, but it's funny how it's still something I 'follow', even if I'm not a 'supporter' really. A few years ago I was listening to a podcast and it was talking about one study in US kindergartens which focused on how boys and girls interacted with the same sex (and I'm aware I'm sticking with 'traditional gender views' here, so no offence is intended - any botch up here is down to my poor phraseology, but I hope you get something from it). Anyway, they observed that the girls tended to sit opposite each other and 'talk', whereas the boys typically sat next to each other, focused on the 'task' they were doing and opened up to each other during that task. I think turning up to a football match each week, for blokes, with many blokes going with them and around them, has been such an important thing. I'm in an environment where I've been around women for most of my life and, based only on my own experience, my guy mates are much less comfortable with that whole 'how are you?' and going deep into a chat. Watching those two guys in that wee video did make me think of just how important football really is to many people, so much more than the actual 'sporting' side of it. Shared experiences. The walk up to ER. The pub after. It's so important.

You know, a funny Hibs 'experience' for me was watching the 2016 cup final. I couldn't bear to watch it. I was convinced it would be another emotional kicking - and this is from a guy who isn't really 'invested' as much as you all are. Anyway, when SDG scored that goal, and when the final whistle went, my reaction is still one which really pleases me. It wasn't a 'get it up you you (the) Rangers bs*&*&', it wasn't even a ''RESULT!', it was more of a sort of relief and all I could think of were the people I used to go to the games with, people I'd not seen for decades. One of the friends of a friend went with his father. He was getting on a bit in the mid-90s and I couldn't even remember his name tbh. But damn he was the one I was thinking of when that final whistle went. Nothing would have pleased me more than knowing he got to see that. I still get a wee bit emotional when I think of the post on here where someone had paid for a brick at ER which simply said "2016, I was there Dad". That whole thing just transcends football as a 'sport'.

I've never had depression. I do get chronic migraines and there's fairly new research about emotional upheval before and after a migraine period. I've struggled with that and whilst I've never had a breakdown, I did once 'break' which meant I had a near two year break from my original career. You really find out who is important when you see who feels a wee bit awkward at keeping in touch, or who actually just messages with a 'I was thinking about you'. For me, in a much much better place than so many have, but in one which I struggled with, that 'checking-in' was so important. I'd like to think I'm a lot better at doing it with people now. It really could make such a difference for some people. Even just a wee smile and a nod to someone. That 'good to see you' thing. That video does this so brilliantly.

Anyway, apologies if this is preachy/irrelevant or whatever. I suppose the TL:DR is that you really do see that in football matches at times. I don't care whether it's the Nou Camp ,ER, or even Tynecastle home side, there's something really important there about this sport, maybe classically for blokes and young boys (but definittely not exclusively). Even a shared 'Aww ffs' and a shared eye-roll could be so important.

There's so much to supporting a team and rocking up each and every week.

Oh, and thanks to the wonder that is Facebook, the father of the friend of a friend WAS still with us in 2016.

[chasitup]

Incredibly moving and well done. There’s still a long way to go despite all the help out there. It’s good to talk.

[Scouse Hibee]

Wow very moving and mirrors the behaviour of ex colleague who sadly passed recently.

[Hibernian Verse]

It's perhaps indicative of the problems men have that there are only a handful of posts on this thread discussing the video and men's mental health.

Then again, I may be reading too much into that.

A fantastic video and really hit me.

[Itsnoteasy]

It's perhaps indicative of the problems men have that there are only a handful of posts on this thread discussing the video and men's mental health.

Then again, I may be reading too much into that.

A fantastic video and really hit me.


There's a thread on Dug Out that has a 66 pager on mens mental health, offering great support to one & other.

[CropleyWasGod]

It's perhaps indicative of the problems men have that there are only a handful of posts on this thread discussing the video and men's mental health.

Then again, I may be reading too much into that.

A fantastic video and really hit me.


There's a thread on Dug Out that has a 66 pager on mens mental health, offering great support to one & other.

:agree:

Best thread on here IMO.

https://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?250455-Depression-and-anxiety