http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OT: Scott Hutchison en Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:55:57 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-283058 Mon, 21 May 2018 16:10:47 +0000 Frenchy 283058@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt - understandable! Ta. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-283052 Mon, 21 May 2018 15:41:59 +0000 unhurt 283052@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Frenchy - not yet. I have a rocky relationship with books about the bad stuff. Sometimes it's all a bit <em>too</em> pertinent to my interests!</p> <p>I do want to read this: <a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/depression-a-public-feeling/421727.article">Depression: A Public Feeling </a> by Ann Cvetkovich. Referenced in the excellent (so far - not finished it yet) <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/2576-radical-happiness">Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy </a>by Lynne Segal. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-283051 Mon, 21 May 2018 15:32:04 +0000 I were right about that saddle 283051@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A friend of mine drove to the Forth Road Bridge in the middle of the night last year but he came back.</p> <p>I hope he stays back. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-283050 Mon, 21 May 2018 15:21:50 +0000 Frenchy 283050@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm fortunate enough to have not been inside such a place (yet, anyway...touch wood), but Janice Galloway's <em>The Trick is to Keep Breathing</em> was a harrowing but illuminating novel on the subject. Have you read it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-283049 Mon, 21 May 2018 15:15:23 +0000 unhurt 283049@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Awareness" is all very well, but don't expect much help via the NHS beyond a prescription and (after a 6 month wait) some one-size-fits-all Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Crisis services are more or less non-existent. It's grim out there at 3am when you know you aren't coping but there's absolutely nowhere to turn. </p> <p>(And having seen the inside of a secure mental health unit when a close family member was sectioned, I'd hide any and all symptoms up to and including serious suicidal ideation rather than risk finding myself held in one of those places.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-283041 Mon, 21 May 2018 13:51:16 +0000 Stickman 283041@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/kevin-buckle-we-must-all-be-aware-of-mental-health-issues-1-4741943" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/kevin-buckle-we-must-all-be-aware-of-mental-health-issues-1-4741943</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-282582 Mon, 14 May 2018 22:25:22 +0000 LaidBack 282582@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2rqh8" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2rqh8</a></p> <p>Vic Galloway - first hour in tribute. On iPlayer later. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-282498 Mon, 14 May 2018 08:46:21 +0000 Stickman 282498@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Frenchy: I know what you mean. It feels very close to home. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-282491 Sun, 13 May 2018 22:54:17 +0000 LaidBack 282491@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16222181.Frightened_Rabbit_band_members_lay_floral_tribute_after_singer_s_death/" rel="nofollow">http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16222181.Frightened_Rabbit_band_members_lay_floral_tribute_after_singer_s_death/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-282473 Sun, 13 May 2018 20:31:01 +0000 Frenchy 282473@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Despite never really listening to his music, this news affected me more than I was expecting. Reading the stories of people who've knew him, or who were helped through their own tough times by hus music has been very touching too.</p> <p>Thoughts with his friends and family. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-282456 Sun, 13 May 2018 11:51:24 +0000 I were right about that saddle 282456@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This topic needs a whole forum to itself. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-282443 Sun, 13 May 2018 09:35:16 +0000 gembo 282443@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Big Stan the PE guru at the uni of Glasgow Stevie building was the first port of call if a student reported to Dr Scorgie the popular GP, with depression. The prescription was for exercise rather than meds. Quite far sighted in the 1980s</p> <p>The Psychologist magazine this month is all about how being part of groups has a positive impact on mental health. Hardly novel but a timely reminder of our human need to belong and how we can go right off the boil when we feel lonely. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-282440 Sun, 13 May 2018 08:46:09 +0000 chdot 282440@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Another reminder that mental health affects us all - directly, or someone we know, and some people we know of. </p> <p>Exercise can help, though the number of professional sports people talking about depression shows it’s not a simple ‘solution’. </p> <p>“</p> <p>Sport and physical activity are good for your mental health and wellbeing. The less physical activity a person does, the more likely they are to experience low mood, depression, tension and worry. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.samh.org.uk/documents/SAMH_View_Sport_and_Physical_Activity.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.samh.org.uk/documents/SAMH_View_Sport_and_Physical_Activity.pdf</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-282438 Sun, 13 May 2018 00:45:27 +0000 Stickman 282438@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Really sad. I listened to their first couple of albums a lot and then lost touch with them. Been reading all the tributes to Scott over the last few days and he seemed to be a lovely gentle guy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18826#post-282437 Sat, 12 May 2018 23:36:51 +0000 LaidBack 282437@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.thenational.scot/news/16221114.Tributes_paid_after__charismatic__Frightened_Rabbit_singer_s_body_found/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thenational.scot/news/16221114.Tributes_paid_after__charismatic__Frightened_Rabbit_singer_s_body_found/</a></p> <p>His band Frightened Rabbit took the road less travelled and had a huge influence on the music scene here. Complex, no compromise lyrics sung as if he had lived them. Loud but subtle with not too much Americanisation.<br /> Starting on a smaller label the band's recent work was picked up by Atlantic. He recorded other solo work as Owl John.<br /> I was in Cork when I heard the news that he had gone missing near the Forth Bridge and feared the worst.<br /> I never saw the band but was very impressed when he came to a Christmas show of young musicians at the Queen's Hall to sing three songs on a fund raiser. Other talents there were (then) unknown.<br /> He cared enough to go - even though he would have been busy with FR.<br /> A great talent, gone too soon. </p>