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Good luck Brick, I feel your pain. I have huge problems with my 14 year old boy, who has threatened to kill himself since he was 9, massive anger issues. The wife & I have tried alot of stuff, nothing is working. It's a  long road ahead impossible to live in the moment or enjoy life, just waiting for the next meltdown. Counsellors are non existent, GP,s are utterly useless. Teachers in fairness do their best. That's what I've found. The mind is a complex place, but the problems appear to be exacerbated by how young people form relationships/ friendships these days ie social media. Its toxic.
Good luck

I know exactly how you feel Rudi, i could have written your post word for word ,  it comes to a stage where  you dread receiving a phone call or message. The mental health service down south is a joke , no help whatsoever .  I personally blame social media for a lot of it. All you hear is regarding mental help is talk to someone , but in reality there is no one to talk to , not unless you can wait 6 months.     

What is the private health sector like for getting help? Not everyone is in a position to pay for it of course but I'm wondering more on how many places provide it?

I noticed a private mental health company has opened up in a old bank near me, forget the name of it but I'd imagine they would be very busy considering the waiting lists for the health service

I looked into one recently , at least a 3 month waiting list, €300 to €500 for the 1st appointment and €150 per appointment after that .

Jesus! Thats expensive even if you have the money!

It's mental , and i definitely don't have the money , yet there is still a waiting list .

Good luck Brick, I feel your pain. I have huge problems with my 14 year old boy, who has threatened to kill himself since he was 9, massive anger issues. The wife & I have tried alot of stuff, nothing is working. It's a  long road ahead impossible to live in the moment or enjoy life, just waiting for the next meltdown. Counsellors are non existent, GP,s are utterly useless. Teachers in fairness do their best. That's what I've found. The mind is a complex place, but the problems appear to be exacerbated by how young people form relationships/ friendships these days ie social media. Its toxic.
Good luck

I know exactly how you feel Rudi, i could have written your post word for word ,  it comes to a stage where  you dread receiving a phone call or message. The mental health service down south is a joke , no help whatsoever .  I personally blame social media for a lot of it. All you hear is regarding mental help is talk to someone , but in reality there is no one to talk to , not unless you can wait 6 months.     

What is the private health sector like for getting help? Not everyone is in a position to pay for it of course but I'm wondering more on how many places provide it?

I noticed a private mental health company has opened up in a old bank near me, forget the name of it but I'd imagine they would be very busy considering the waiting lists for the health service

I looked into one recently , at least a 3 month waiting list, €300 to €500 for the 1st appointment and €150 per appointment after that . 

Good luck Brick, I feel your pain. I have huge problems with my 14 year old boy, who has threatened to kill himself since he was 9, massive anger issues. The wife & I have tried alot of stuff, nothing is working. It's a  long road ahead impossible to live in the moment or enjoy life, just waiting for the next meltdown. Counsellors are non existent, GP,s are utterly useless. Teachers in fairness do their best. That's what I've found. The mind is a complex place, but the problems appear to be exacerbated by how young people form relationships/ friendships these days ie social media. Its toxic.
Good luck

I know exactly how you feel Rudi, i could have written your post word for word ,  it comes to a stage where  you dread receiving a phone call or message. The mental health service down south is a joke , no help whatsoever .  I personally blame social media for a lot of it. All you hear is regarding mental help is talk to someone , but in reality there is no one to talk to , not unless you can wait 6 months.       

Sorry for you loss Pj can only imagine how you feel . Don't know why I feel the need to post on the forum but the black dog has got a grip of me and probably has for quite a while though I didn't want to admit it. i have sought help but it's not easy , things appear very bleak at the moment , to the outside it would appear that I have an ideal  life but the truth is my heads is  in turmoil, used to love Christmas but really dreading this one .

Such a lead now, in the bag!

Hopefully , what a round of golf. He got some reception at the 18th.

Why is mcilroy so hated?

He called it L*****derry.

When?

When he was doing an interview during the Irish open last year when it was held in Ballyliffin.

Well you made it sound like he's going on specifically to talk about the weekend when that's not true

Apologies  just heard him mention Joe Brolly glad he won't be talking about the weekend then 

He is everywhere Matt Cooper about to Interview the wee shite in a couple of Minutes .

He's talking about the organ donation campaign

Ah thank God for that

If he weren't giving interviews people would be bitching that he'd gone to ground.

I wouldn't be one of them 

He is everywhere Matt Cooper about to Interview the wee shite in a couple of Minutes .

One of the biggest transformations over the last two seasons.  A couple of years ago he was a talented player in midfield but didn't  have the engine or temperament to be affective the entire game, just in short bursts.  Last year his fitness had clearly came on, but this year he his the finished article.  Really look forward to seeing his battle in the middle with cavanagh.  Think he will bowl him over.  A powerhouse of a performance yesterday.

Cavanagh will roast him.

I can't really see these pair marking each other. Both of them spend too much time in the no.6 position.

O'Shea was extraordinary yesterday. He must have touched the ball upwards on 50 times, and I can't remember a mistake.

a stat came up on screen at the beginning of the second half i think it was ,  that he had 20 possessions, i think the next closest of any player was 14

Savage Display from O'Shea yesterday . Pretty sure he had 32 possessions in Total 

[I prefer my players to play honest and win honestly]

I must be mad.

I prefer my players to play honest and win honestly. Gaelic football is a better game when you see diving blocks, dispossessions with near hand tackles, you know, the type of football you were taught as a young lad, lets not kid ourselves that today's game was good to watch. I would say few neutrals enjoyed it. If you honestly feel we saw something inspirational in that game today I would be a bit worried about the game.

I don't blame players for playing to win within the rules but then you must conclude then that the rule book has a major flaw within it. In any sport the rule book changes to encourage honest play. I've been watching NFL for about 10-ish years and in that time they have change the rules to make it fairer, to keep players honest, to encourage core skills almost on a yearly basis. OK they have given the attackers a slight advantage but surely the same should be done with GAA without causing the game to suffer.

I don't mind defensive line ups, but systemic fouling needs to carry more risk for the defender.

Nice teams don't win anything just ask us in Mayo .However when we eventually learned that we had to change our attitude and the way to play the modern game you had Joe pointing out what a dirty cynical team we had become a couple of days before the Ai Final.

[. What beat me was how cross he was, i actually thought he was going to pull the pin and walk off, Its was like one of those famous melltdowns like Kerry katona had on TV]

he was right in what he said about cynical fouling blight on the games which was the context of the matter, its picking out 1 player, basically insult his manliness was stupid, childish and in very poor taste. What beat me was how cross he was, i actually thought he was going to pull the pin and walk off, Its was like one of those famous melltdowns like Kerry katona had on TV

I thought the same i was have expecting to Jump throught the  glass in the studio .

Was Joe wrong with the substance of his point?

He could have made his point without having a personal attack on Kavanagh .

MIchael Lyster apologised for his comments today but he has been getting away with murder for years having personal attacks on Amateur players . Spillane and O' Rourke didn't know what to do or say just held on to their seats for dear life.