In a story about the sudden, and unexpected, retirement of Keyon Dooling from the Boston Celtics, Yahoo reveals that he has recently been coming to grips with his past and the struggles of a stressful road life of a professional athlete.
You can read the details over at Yahoo.
We wish Keyon the best in finding a life that will bring him much peace and joy in his retirement from basketball.
Last weekend, the Los Angeles Times reported on information which came to light after more revelations emerged from the BSA’s files. These documents recorded abusive or potentially abusive adults applying to be Scout leaders or working within the organisation. Whilst the article concentrated on a 21 year period, the complete pile of paperwork covers almost…
I think this research shows the reality of growing up in dysfunctional homes. The researchers compared two groups: children who were raised by their biological parents and children who were raised in an institution such as an orphanage. They performed functional magnetic resonance imaging on the children and looked at differences in amygdala activity when…
This might just mean that the majority of the people around us right now are likely dealing with some sort of mental health struggle. This would also mean that there is nothing wrong with us, that we are the normal ones. That there is no weakness in us, or something lacking in us, but rather that we are having a normal reaction to a world that is causing anxiety and depression.
The fix is out there, not inside of us. We can only do what we can to cope, take care of ourselves, and find the tools that allow us to continue, but the real solution is much larger than that. The real solution will require much more. The real solution to mental health issues is fixing society and the world we live in.
If you want solutions, that’s where you start. How do we build a world where being anxious and depressed isn’t an understandable and normal reaction?
On the same day new BBC Director General answered questions in front of a Parliamentary Select Committee, the Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust and the Jimmy Savile Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust both decided to close down rather than just changing their names. Their funds will be distributed anonymously to other charities. That story is here at…
In the UK we had a system known as the Criminal Records Bureau, or CRB, for ensuring that adults working with children and vulnerable adults neither possess a criminal record nor had they changed their names to avoid disclosure to prospective employers. This system was due to be replaced by a much wider-reaching checking system…
