Please feel free to ignore the following off topic rant about mental health - after reading that Saddiq Khan has also said he has PTSD:
I don’t want to knock anyone with mental health issues; I’ve struggled with low mood for which I’ve never been able to get help, for years.
But it does seem, more and more, that people are using their mental health as a shield whenever their popularity plunged, or they get called out for bad behaviour, or want to build a victim narrative around themselves.
Sorry, but it’s not on.
And often it waters down the whole debate around mental heath - turning into trendy badge of honour rather than something that millions of people are battling in silence, without access to real help, on a daily basis.
I don’t know if anyone on here will have heard of Jeff Stelling.
He fronts a show called Soccer Saturday at the weekends.
He spoke out during yesterday’s show about the absolutely dire state of affairs around treatment of eating disorders.
He spoke from the heart, and he spoke the truth of the situation for people in the real world who need help and don’t get it (not those who have access to the best mental health practitioners money can buy but still moan that no one helps them
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I hate when people like the gruesomes and Khant try to ally themselves with the rest of us by saying, look, we suffer too.
Well yes, you might, but you can buy help whilst telling everyone else to talk to a friend
![Pouting face :rage: 😡](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f621.png)
Rant over.
And well done Jeff Stelling
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