Guest Geordie Boyo Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Papers in Dublin this morning saying Jack Charlton is going to sort out all Gazza's problems, by taking him fishing. You'd be surprised how therapeutic fishing is for people who suffer from mental health. I have a fishing group and it is a very effective acitivity towards relaxation. I wouldn't mind helping Gazza. I help people like him in my line of work, but they have to want to give up & make progress towards having a balanced lifestyle. Gazza doesn't know where he is at the moment, and doesn't know what steps to take towards having a balanced and healthy lifestyle. All he knows is football & drinking. A lot of footballers do feel lost when they retire because football is all they know. Gazza has never really had any guidance in his career that's why now he is completely lost. You need someone there who understands the issues around his state of health and take action, but all he's had is people putting him down, which just turns him more towards drink. Most of us get to experience barriers early on in life, financially, physically or mentally and most of all because of the environment we were brought up in. We've learned to survive and be happy to an extent of our lifestyle & work. Gazza was a star when he was 19, or even younger. He only knows one thing. the support & discipline wasn't there like it is nowadays for young footballers. Gazza doesn't just need a psychiatrist, he needs someone there who will 'practically' support him and guide him towards living a healthy lifestyle again. The only profession that offers something like that would be a health trainer, because that's what we do. We learn the basics in CBT, healthy eating, exercise, smoking advice, domestic violence, mental health first aid, etc. But we are employed because we are passionate towards helping people and discuss specific, measurable, achievable & realistic goals towards feeling mentally, or physically healthy again. This is done by motivational interviewing, focussing on behaviour change & exploring what choices people we work with would like to make instead of dictating what they should do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crumpy Gunt Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 ^^^^^^^^^ social worker! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Geordie Boyo Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 ^^^^^^^^^ social worker! The department of health had to focus on a new way to guide people back into good health, simply because the surgeries and hospitals were filling up due to obesity, poor mental health or drug & alcohol related problems. In other words, social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, personal trainers, you name it, have not been effective enough for one reason or another. in the last 3 years health Trainers have been employed to focus on the main health issues we face today. We are basically designed to learn strategies what do work from those professions mentioned. It's a community development approach towards health & inequalities within deprived areas and you'll hear and see a lot more of us in future because of the good & effective work we carry out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 I was listening to TalkSport on the way home, and Danny Kelly was hosting a phone-in on whether football should be there for Gazza and what the sport should do to help him. I couldn't help but wonder what Danny Kelly and his showbiz mates Chris Evans and Danny Baker were doing to help him at the moment, given that they did their utmost to appear in the media out on the piss with Gazza for most of the 1990s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 I was listening to TalkSport on the way home, and Danny Kelly was hosting a phone-in on whether football should be there for Gazza and what the sport should do to help him. I couldn't help but wonder what Danny Kelly and his showbiz mates Chris Evans and Danny Baker were doing to help him at the moment, given that they did their utmost to appear in the media out on the piss with Gazza for most of the 1990s. QFT. So many hangers on have benefitted from the bloke that it's even more depressing he ends up with no fucker to help him out. Obviously that fat cunt 5 bellies has got everything he can from him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crumpy Gunt Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 ^^^^^^^^^ social worker! The department of health had to focus on a new way to guide people back into good health, simply because the surgeries and hospitals were filling up due to obesity, poor mental health or drug & alcohol related problems. In other words, social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, personal trainers, you name it, have not been effective enough for one reason or another. in the last 3 years health Trainers have been employed to focus on the main health issues we face today. We are basically designed to learn strategies what do work from those professions mentioned. It's a community development approach towards health & inequalities within deprived areas and you'll hear and see a lot more of us in future because of the good & effective work we carry out. Only kidding with you man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Lol Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Article on the Spurs OS ............... As the media embargo, originally requested to secure privacy for Paul, has now been lifted, the Club would like to provide our supporters with an update on the position regarding our former midfield great Paul Gascoigne. Gazza, one of English football's favourite sons, was yesterday sectioned under the Mental Health Act and will receive treatment for an enforced period of six months. The gravity of his problems came to light in February when he was first sectioned and Gary Mabbutt, the Club, the Professional Footballers' Association and the Football Association, along with other footballing friends and family of the 42-year-old privately came together with the aim of providing the former England international with the medical care he required. There remains the need for enforced and prolonged treatment, which Gary feels Gazza will now receive. "Since Paul was first sectioned in February a number of people came together quietly - the Club, both directly and through the Tottenham Tribute Trust, the FA, the PFA - to provide support both practical and financial - and to work, along with his friends and family, with his specialists to get the best treatment for him," said Gary, captain during Gazza's three-year spell at the Lane from 1988-91. "We were able to get treatment for Paul at the Priory and other clinics, but the problem was that when he was sober he would discharge himself only to relapse again. "He was on the road to self-destruction so, after making every effort to protect his privacy, it was decided that we must enter the public domain in order to put some pressure through the media on the powers that be to have him sectioned. "The Club has been kept very much up to date with everything and I have liaised with them on a daily basis. It has been a case of us all striving to help Paul through this difficult period of time." Gary stressed that a dependence on alcohol is one of a number, but not the root cause, of Gazza's problems. "I must make it clear that Paul is not just an alcoholic, that is not the situation. Some articles have portrayed this as simply an addiction to alcohol, but that is a symptom rather than a cause and there are far more serious problems that have to be addressed. He suffers from several disorders, including manic depression, that add to a pretty nasty cocktail of things going on in his head. "Unfortunately, until they cure the first problem, they can't cure the second, third and fourth problem. http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/paulgascoigne.html The Spurs Tribute Trust is a charity set up and funded by the club to help former players who have fallen on hard times due to medical problems and need support, financial or otherwise. The usual beneficiaries are old time players who need hip operations and that sort of thing, but Gazza obviously ticks all the boxes for the help he so much needs. Can only hope that he can be nursed back to good health but he will be getting the best treatment available, not just what's available on the NHS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobby_solano Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 that's good to hear he'll be getting help from spurs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Teed Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Aye! get well soon son,great footballer,one of the best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Was watching that interview after he was sacked from Kettering Town and he was on about buying the club. Slurring his words and that. Was tough to watch. Hope he can put his demons behind him once and for all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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