Leicester City and mental health at the moment.

[CloudFox]

22 hours ago, Collymore said:

I wake up every day looking for some Leicester positives and it's completely devoid of any... and it's been like that for a while now and it's making me a bit upset and I'm sure it must be affecting others in different ways. 

 

 

Rodgers looked absolutely deflated in his press conference recently,  he even said something that really annoyed me -  I'll try not to paraphrase him, but It was something like "there's bigger things in life to worry about"

 

Well Brendan - that's not what I want to hear from the guy at the helm when we're free falling with no apparent soul. 

 

I just think with all the stuff going on in the world your football club should be your beacon of hope at times or at least appear to be.

 

It seems like we're going out our way not to be that beacon of hope. It just seems an utter mess in so many ways. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The replies and advice others have given are perfectly valid, but all the same, I hear you @Collymore.

 

There's enough shit going on in the world that mean football is a great way to escape. So when our football club feels like it's a nebula of negativity, it does affect me negatively too. It absolutely affects my mental health, because it's something I turn to to help boost it. I don't like that that is the case, and I try to close/pause/remove ways to see what's going on, but I'm a fan like everyone else, so it doesn't take long for me to be pulled back.

 

In short, I hear you. You're not alone. A bit of good news from this club would be very much welcome right now, irrespective of how good or bad any of us have it elsewhere in our lives.

[filbertway]

13 hours ago, Rusko187 said:

This is another good point, for all of your frustrations try to see from the perspective of someone else. There is a fanbase who think he’s an incompetent idiot and want him sacked, when you think about it, that is incredibly demoralising and hurtful… surely he’s feeling emotionally all over the place.

 

I’ve given him stick, I’ve called him to be sacked but I’ve eased up on this as it’s not right to attack a person when it’s evident it’s affecting them. Still want him gone mind.

He can end it all very easily 

[AmyLGK]

So, (following on from my previous post in this thread) at full time I watched a film called the invasion with Nicole kidman and Daniel Craig. It was so bad it was amusing! Husband cooked me comfort food and we've just watched casino royale...only occasionally going on twitter to see if he's been sacked yet. Now as my mental wellbeing is directly linked to the amount of sleep I get im recording motd and going to bed instead. Night all 👍😊

[HighPeakFox]

I speak from my own experience that if you are struggling with mental health due to what goes on at LCFC, then it is likely (and I mean this with the kindest intent possible) that you need to re-evaluate your life choices and priorities.

[Fox92]

On 27/08/2022 at 05:55, stourbridgefox said:

If people want to watch a happy ending every weekend, they should go to the cinema. 

Exactly this.

 

Football is a sport. I go to games not knowing if we're gonna win, lose or draw and that's the point. If I wanted something nice, relaxing and entertaining I wouldn't go to watch football.

 

But in regards to the thread, there are far bigger things in life to worry about. Football, and sport in general, is a nice addition to our lives. 

 

[The Horse's Mouth]

If football has that big of an effect on your mental well-being then I’d suggest supporting Bayern Munich 

[SheppyFox]

On 26/08/2022 at 22:44, Collymore said:

I wake up every day looking for some Leicester positives and it's completely devoid of any... and it's been like that for a while now and it's making me a bit upset and I'm sure it must be affecting others in different ways. 

 

 

Rodgers looked absolutely deflated in his press conference recently,  he even said something that really annoyed me -  I'll try not to paraphrase him, but It was something like "there's bigger things in life to worry about"

 

Well Brendan - that's not what I want to hear from the guy at the helm when we're free falling with no apparent soul. 

 

I just think with all the stuff going on in the world your football club should be your beacon of hope at times or at least appear to be.

 

It seems like we're going out our way not to be that beacon of hope. It just seems an utter mess in so many ways. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BrendaN needs to fo 

[Guest glasgowfox]

Totally wish the title of this thread could be changed.  Yes football can change how you feel for a while but imo mental health is not how you feel for a while after a game, it's far deeper and debilitating than that.....fact.

[HighPeakFox]

Just now, glasgowfox said:

Totally wish the title of this thread could be changed.  Yes football can change how you feel for a while but imo mental health is not how you feel for a while after a game, it's far deeper and debilitating than that.....fact.

I have to respectfully disagree, especially since you said imo and then fact.

[Vazman]

It is deflating at the moment for sure, but as many have said there are more important things to worry about, I am lucky I have great friends, all support different clubs, so the banter gets me through it, ones a Newcastle supporter so needless to say he got alot of stick the tide is changing and I'm at the end of it now it's all taken as humour it does help well me anyway.

[splinterdream]

I get what the poster is saying but the football is some peoples lives, god knows it’s a big part of mine and it’s not for the manager to say that, Rodger’s is paid life changing money to make us into winners, going public with that attitude shows an attitude you wouldn’t expect from a professional well paid sportsman, it’s making excuses for failure.

[Guest glasgowfox]

1 hour ago, HighPeakFox said:

I have to respectfully disagree, especially since you said imo and then fact.

Well lucky you.   I know what I am talking about but still sho w a modicum of respect....I have an opinion and also know its a fact!  

[HighPeakFox]

10 minutes ago, glasgowfox said:

Well lucky you.   I know what I am talking about but still sho w a modicum of respect....I have an opinion and also know its a fact!  

Good luck to you. I think I was very respectful indeed.

[Guest glasgowfox]

Respect back at you but read my earlier posts and you may feel you are not grasping the impact on certain individuals or what mental health really is.

[HighPeakFox]

1 minute ago, glasgowfox said:

Respect back at you but read my earlier posts and you may feel you are not grasping the impact on certain individuals or what mental health really is.

Have a look in the Depression thread, and realise I have been a LCFC fan for over 35 years, and then you'll know that I know what I'm talking about.

[Guest glasgowfox]

1 hour ago, HighPeakFox said:

Good luck to you. I think I was very respectful indeed.

 

1 hour ago, HighPeakFox said:

Have a look in the Depression thread, and realise I have been a LCFC fan for over 35 years, and then you'll know that I know what I'm talking about.

I don't need educating on mental health!  Disrespectful to the max.

[HighPeakFox]

Just now, glasgowfox said:

I don't need educating on mental health!  Disrespectful to the max.

I wasn't trying to educate you. 

[weller54]

3 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Exactly this.

 

Football is a sport. I go to games not knowing if we're gonna win, lose or draw and that's the point. If I wanted something nice, relaxing and entertaining I wouldn't go to watch football.

 

But in regards to the thread, there are far bigger things in life to worry about. Football, and sport in general, is a nice addition to our lives. 

 

Come on!!.. you know we're not going to win, that's a silly comment.

[Smudge]

7 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

I speak from my own experience that if you are struggling with mental health due to what goes on at LCFC, then it is likely (and I mean this with the kindest intent possible) that you need to re-evaluate your life choices and priorities.

At my age I'm running out of dem life choices though .

On a serious note I do get down after a game but I think it's more frustration than anything else.

Edited 29 August 2022 by Smudge

[cruzFOX]

Football is cyclical in terms of joy and pain

we’ve had a healthy dose of the good stuff with some patches of frustration thrown in.

what’s happened of late has hit us all like a curve ball. I know some have said they saw it coming but c’mon until it happens you don’t believe it. 
 

So here we are and it’s not a nice place.

rooted to the bottom looking vulnerable every game. We can analyze till the cows come home but it won’t change our situation. I’d be a liar if I didn’t admit that our club’s troubles brings me down. If my personal life was bad it would compound my mood for sure. The best thing I can do Is hope and pray for that shining light. It will come we might have to suffer a little longer but things will get better. I’ve seen enough to believe our fortunes will change and we will shoot up the table. Our team won’t allow us to get relegated no way.

foxes never quit and are fearless we will turn it around so chin up everyone we’ll get thru this together and come out of it much stronger! Maybe we will look back on this period and see it as a sort of cleansing in order to get back to being our best again.

[Jon the Hat]

9 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

I speak from my own experience that if you are struggling with mental health due to what goes on at LCFC, then it is likely (and I mean this with the kindest intent possible) that you need to re-evaluate your life choices and priorities.

I think the point is that there is so much negativity going on around the world at the moment that Football while trivial COULD be something positive to lift some of the gloom, and it isn't.  I really hope we have a good last few days of the window now some money is coming in.

[Vindaloo FOX]

My wife has stopped speaking to me because I'm always in a bad mood due to Leicester.

 

She even said last night I was talking in my sleep, kept muttering "Brendan out"

[Wolfox]

When I read the fire post, I thought this was all going to head south pretty quickly…. It didn’t 

 

Refreshing to read a set of supportive and well balanced responses…

[Vacamion]

2 hours ago, Vindaloo FOX said:

My wife has stopped speaking to me because I'm always in a bad mood due to Leicester.

 

She even said last night I was talking in my sleep, kept muttering "Brendan out"

 

 

You are in love with a girl called Brendan Nowt, you are dreaming about her, and this was your elaborate cover story to your missus.

 

 

[turkish14]

13 hours ago, glasgowfox said:

Respect back at you but read my earlier posts and you may feel you are not grasping the impact on certain individuals or what mental health really is.

 

We all have our own views, perspectives and experiences regarding mental health and what we feel constitutes to that.

 

If someone feels their mental well-being is being impacted by a football result and leading then to depression then it’s very real for them.

 

The reality in that particular example (I agree with Highpeakfox) then they should look for alternative ways to find positivity. 
 

I am aware that just finding alternative positives, doesn’t solve deep rooted issues that could be aggravated by football. But it’s a step (albeit small) in the right direction. 
 

 

Edited 29 August 2022 by turkish14