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Title: Gary Speed
Post by: Butty on November 27, 2011, 12:46:04 PM
Died aged 42- shock to the footballing world, Rest In Peace
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: fuertes on November 27, 2011, 12:50:06 PM
Suicide apparently. Can't believe it. Really sad stuff.
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: Hamilton on November 27, 2011, 01:03:39 PM
Totally shocked. God bless him & his family. Having experienced the trauma a family suicide can bring I cannot even begin to describe what his family will be going through, so I hope they get every bit of support, help and comfort they will need.
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: ALTYGAL on November 27, 2011, 01:47:16 PM
Very sad news, turmoil must he have been going through inside. RIP
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: joe on November 27, 2011, 01:55:34 PM
I was only watching him on football focus yesterday,he seemed very upbeat. RIP.
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: Timperley The Best on November 27, 2011, 02:50:23 PM
Seemed to have evererything going for him rip gary
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: Paul Cain's Chip Pan on November 27, 2011, 02:56:23 PM
Dreadful news, absolutely shocking.

RIP
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: hsmith1 on November 27, 2011, 03:20:44 PM
agreed,dreadful and very sad news
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: distancetraveller on November 27, 2011, 03:22:51 PM
Just got home and heard the news on Sky - A terrible shame and such a young age  RIP
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: DavidP on November 27, 2011, 06:12:55 PM
Sad news about harry kind of puts our result today into perspective
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: Amsterdam Alty on November 27, 2011, 06:36:50 PM
Just got home and heard the news on Sky -
Is sky - what you get if you don't pay your bill?
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: Ballers on November 27, 2011, 06:38:31 PM
Just got home and heard the news on Sky -
Is sky - what you get if you don't pay your bill?

I might be missing somethingLongsden but I think that's the oddest thing I've ever read mate!
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: ManagementGuru on November 27, 2011, 07:35:29 PM
I got it: sky minus...
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: York Alty on November 29, 2011, 11:29:28 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15954876.stm

Not surprised at all.  Not my area of work being honest but I am no longer surprised when I hear of people starting on anti depressants.  Been on them myself. This county is in the middle of a mental health crisis.  I do understand why these ten people haven't come forward but it may spark more debate if they did.  Good luck to them though.
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: Hamilton on November 29, 2011, 11:45:50 PM
and hopefully there will be more understanding of depression - it is not, as some people appear to think, just being very sad.

Hopefully it will also make people realise that having all the trappings of wealth and security (not that I have either!) make one immune to depression - a disease that is the biggest killer of men under 45 in the west of Scotland and probably elsewhere.
Title: Re: Gary Speed
Post by: Uncle Globnasty on November 30, 2011, 11:47:38 AM
and hopefully there will be more understanding of depression - it is not, as some people appear to think, just being very sad.

Hopefully it will also make people realise that having all the trappings of wealth and security (not that I have either!) make one immune to depression - a disease that is the biggest killer of men under 45 in the west of Scotland and probably elsewhere.

A complex and much misunderstood problem often exacerbated by the greed of corporate pharmaceutical companies and their need to push their wares on ever increasingly over-burdened GP's who are only to happy to dole them out like sweets  to an unsuspecting and often ill-educated public.

SSRI's  (which includes Prozac, Zoloft, Cipramil, Paxil and many more) have been found to be no more effective than a panacea in many studies and yet they are still doled out en masse as the solution to all ills. In fact in the case of under 18's they can have a severely adverse effect, but as long as the big chemical corporations exert their influence all is good. The only case where they have found to be more effective than a panacea is in the treatment of those with severe depression and even then the reasons for the difference between the two are debatable.

Large pharmaceutical companies are morally corrupt and they exert a frightening influence over governments. The needs of the individual sufferer are at the very bottom of their list of priorities.

It is very sad news indeed and it is the family left behind that I feel truly sorry for. Their lives have been permanently affected by his tragic loss. It is unfortunately all to common over here in Ireland and in Wexford in particular, but it is never spoken about. Never mentioned in the news media, a throwback to the influence of the catholic church and its regard of suicide as a mortal sin.