Mental health is an issue, not an identity
" Mental Health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be dealt with " This week I was going to put an article on some underrated sporting achievements but something else came up that I wanted to talk about. Snorkels on though because this blog will get very deep very quickly. Now I'm lucky. I've have a good family, good friends, a beautiful girlfriend and live a contented life. However, today I wanted to talk about something I stumbled across recently. A situation that panicked me a bit. I was walking home from a fitness session on Friday evening. Heavy legged to say the least. Just walking home over a railway bridge in Southampton with just one lad walking ahead of me. Here comes the bit where I panicked. A young teenage girl came sprinting up the bridge steps, clearly distressed and attempted to jump off the bridge in the way of a oncoming train. She was suicidal. I panicked at what I was witnessing because you don...