Bressie's speech on depression

WhiteWalls

If you have seen it what do you think of it?

Kevin McCloud

That was months ago no?

WhiteWalls

This one is 24 mins long and posted by 'Lovin Dublin' on facebook 12 hours ago with thousands of shares. Maybe there was another one

Kevin McCloud

Im not on the facebook, anything on the twitter machine?

NIMAN

He's on the Independents website with a current story, so maybe there has been a recent speech.

WhiteWalls

I will probably get slated for this but I cannot fathom how somebody can be in such a dark place and be a professional rugby player at the same time?

errlloyd

It's pretty touching. Depression ruined a promising sports career and cost him his band.

He's become a great spokesperson, I really respect him for that and hope his own health improves.

Kevin McCloud

WhiteWalls wrote: »

I will probably get slated for this but I cannot fathom how somebody can be in such a dark place and be a professional rugby player at the same time?

Football player no?

WhiteWalls

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Football player no?

No Leinster rugby

tastyt

WhiteWalls wrote: »

I will probably get slated for this but I cannot fathom how somebody can be in such a dark place and be a professional rugby player at the same time?

Do you mean because of the wealth and lifestyle??

WhiteWalls

tastyt wrote: »

Do you mean because of the wealth and lifestyle??

No I mean how somebody could go out onto a pitch and perform at such a high level and have their bodies in such good shape?

tastyt

WhiteWalls wrote: »

No I mean how somebody could go out onto a pitch and perform at such a high level and have their bodies in such good shape?

I suppose its the same as any other job for a professional. There's accountants, bakers, cops, electricians, nurses etc going to work every day with depression and trying to deal with it, or worse, trying to hide it and bury it.

WhiteWalls

tastyt wrote: »

I suppose its the same as any other job for a professional. There's accountants, bakers, cops, electricians, nurses etc going to work every day with depression and trying to deal with it, or worse, trying to hide it and bury it.

Yes this is true but he describes himself as being acutely depressed and still being able to be a professional athlete and then work on television. Maybe I am just ignorant but it seems impossible to me

Candy_Girl

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Yes this is true but he describes himself as being acutely depressed and still being able to be a professional athlete and then work on television. Maybe I am just ignorant but it seems impossible to me

No it's not impossible some people just deal with it and put on a front for others.

Kermit.de.frog

Sorry but who is "Bressie"?

The Diabolical Monocle

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Yes this is true but he describes himself as being acutely depressed and still being able to be a professional athlete and then work on television. Maybe I am just ignorant but it seems impossible to me

Marketing ploy would not surprise me. Theres a lot of teens out theres who might suffer depression and then theres even more who may believe they do as they whinge about only having an iphone 4.
If only they had someone they could identify with, someone with a whiny song or three, like Florence and the machine but Irish.

Hey guys, I care, plus Im handsome.
oh yeah boo depression, now lets buy tickets to my gig and all hang out in a group with shared characteristics and issues.

blade1

WhiteWalls wrote: »

I will probably get slated for this but I cannot fathom how somebody can be in such a dark place and be a professional rugby player at the same time?

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Football player no?

WhiteWalls wrote: »

No Leinster rugby

WhiteWalls wrote: »

No I mean how somebody could go out onto a pitch and perform at such a high level and have their bodies in such good shape?

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Sorry but who is "Bressie"?

Am I gone mental or something?
Is Bressie not that singer guy that was a judge on The Voice?

Dracula!

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Sorry but who is "Bressie"?

In case you were curious your not funny.

downonthefarm

He is blaming depression on his band folding?
How about because they were ****.
We all have our own demos doesn't mean we piss and moan
and blame our short comings on it

Dracula!

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

Marketing ploy would not surprise me. Theres a lot of teens out theres who might suffer depression and then theres even more who may believe they do as they whinge about only having an iphone 4.
If only they had someone they could identify with, someone with a whiny song or three, like Florence and the machine but Irish.

Hey guys, I care, plus Im handsome.

oh yeah boo depression, now lets buy tickets to my gig and all hang out in a group with shared characteristics and issues.

I'm assuming your jealousy clouds your ability to empathise with anyone else's pain. You have a very dark view of the world.

Dracula!

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

Marketing ploy would not surprise me. Theres a lot of teens out theres who might suffer depression and then theres even more who may believe they do as they whinge about only having an iphone 4.
If only they had someone they could identify with, someone with a whiny song or three, like Florence and the machine but Irish.

Hey guys, I care, plus Im handsome.

oh yeah boo depression, now lets buy tickets to my gig and all hang out in a group with shared characteristics and issues.

I'm assuming your jealousy clouds your ability to empathise with anyone else's pain. You have a very dark view of the world.

Lapin

Dracula! wrote: »

In case you were curious your not funny.

Ok, is there any chance you (or anyone) might actually tell us who Bressie is because there are some of us who genuinely haven't a clue who you are on about and we're not trying to be 'funny' as you put it.

I thought he was a singer but apparently he plays for Leinster.

I thought I was fairly well up on rugby but I've never heard of a Bressie playing for them.

So, please - who is he?

blade1

Lapin wrote: »

Ok, is there any chance you (or anyone) might actually tell us who Bressie is because there are some of us who genuinely haven't a clue who you are on about and we're not trying to be 'funny' as you put it.

I thought he was a singer but apparently he plays for Leinster.

I thought I was fairly well up on rugby but I've never heard of a Bressie playing for them.

So, please - who is he?

Post 17

Dracula!

Lapin wrote: »

Ok, is there any chance you (or anyone) might actually tell us who Bressie is because there are some of us who genuinely haven't a clue who you are on about and we're not trying to be 'funny' as you put it.

I thought he was a singer but apparently he plays for Leinster.i

I thought I was fairly well up on rugby but I've never heard of a Bressie playing for them.

So, please - who is he?

In the time it took to type your post you could have googled bressie rugby. I don't buy it.

Lapin

blade1 wrote: »

Post 17

Yeah? All of two questions but no answers.

For Christ sake can nobody give a straight answer to an honest question here.

What a bunch of cryptic bullshít.

evolving_doors

Dracula! wrote: »

I'm assuming your jealousy clouds your ability to empathise with anyone else's pain. You have a very dark view of the world.

Same mental illness bashing that was played out on the Marion Finnucan radio thread yesterday.

Unfortunately Dracula , some people get off on this type of thing. Obviously hasn't come to their door.

Lapin

Dracula! wrote: »

In the time it took to type your post you could have googled bressie rugby. I don't buy it.

Why not close down discussion forums altogether then. Who needs boards when we have google.

I thought this might be an interesting thread as it involves a serious topic of concern to a lot of people including myself.

But it just looks like another thread for people to demonstrate what pricks they are.



Shove it.

dan1895

Is this about a musician or a rugby player? Serious question.

Dracula!

Lapin wrote: »

Why not close down discussion forums altogether then. Who needs boards when we have google.

I thought this might be an interesting thread as it involves a serious topic of concern to a lot of people including myself.

But it just looks like another thread for people to demonstrate what pricks they are.



Shove it.

Smoke screens and mirrors much ?

blade1

Lapin wrote: »

Yeah? All of two questions but no answers.

For Christ sake can nobody give a straight answer to an honest question here.

What a bunch of cryptic bullshít.

Are you for real?
You asked a question and I thought I was being helpful by telling you look at post 17(a couple of posts above your question).

I won't bother the next time as you don't sound like a very nice person.

dmc17

Wikipedia is your friend.

Niall Breslin (born 22 October 1980), known as Bressie, is an Irish musician and former Westmeath Gaelic footballer. Breslin found success as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter with pop band The Blizzards, as a co-writer and producer with XIX Entertainment and as a solo artist. He was the winning coach on the first and third seasons of The Voice of Ireland.

Breslin represented his native county team, Westmeath, in Gaelic football at Minor, Under-21 and Senior Championship levels before making a high profile transfer to the Leitrim hurlers.[5] He won a Leinster Under-21 Football Championship medal with Westmeath in 2000. He was also a professional rugby player with Leinster Rugby. He had a scholarship in UCD for rugby and also represented Ireland at Under21 level in the World Cup.

Lapin

Dracula! wrote: »

Smoke screens and mirrors much ?

What the hell are you on about?

blade1 wrote: »

Are you for real?
You asked a question and I thought I was being helpful by telling you look at post 17(a couple of posts above your question).

Helpful woud have been answering a simple question, Not redirecting someone to a post that doesn't answer it.

Now that I know who he is (thanks to the post above) I never knew he played rugby for Leinster.

Would it have been too much for someone to point that out earlier?

fits

Niall Breslin or Bressie. Band were called the blizzards. Didn't know he played rugby.

blade1

Lapin wrote: »

What the hell are you on about?



Helpful woud have been answering a simple question, Not redirecting someone to a post that doesn't answer it.

Now that I know who his (thanks to the post above) I never knew he played rugby for Leinster.

Would it have been too much for someone to point that out earlier?

Poor Lapin! Throwing his toys out of his pram because he's too lazy to look up something himself :pac::pac::pac:

12gauge dave

Bressie the singer yes?

dan1895

12gauge dave wrote: »

Bressie the singer yes?

And rugby player too apparently.

professore

Don't know a lot about his rugby but his band were terrible.

Also my wife is now depressed because she was a big fan of Pat Byrne who won the Voice a few years back under the tutelage of Bressie. I tell you who he is since no one has heard of him since and she had to go out of her way to actually find his CD.

Seriously though, Bressie is just one of these celebrities who is famous because some women like the look of him. That's it. It's sad he is depressed, but he should be realistic too.

"Love love love chase the demons away". Sounds like a chant from a religious cult. FFS.

Dracula!

professore wrote: »

Don't know a lot about his rugby but his band were terrible.

Also my wife is now depressed because she was a big fan of Pat Byrne who won the Voice a few years back under the tutelage of Bressie. I tell you who he is since no one has heard of him since and she had to go out of her way to actually find his CD.

Seriously though, Bressie is just one of these celebrities who is famous because some women like the look of him. That's it. It's sad he is depressed, but he should be realistic too.

"Love love love chase the demons away". Sounds like a chant from a religious cult. ]

You should have ended your post with the intro to it " I don't know a lot". That about summed it up

adocholiday

The cynicism on this thread is unreal. I was never really a fan of Bressie of the Blizzards but he has been very vocal about his mental illness for some time now and is a great spokesperson for it.

Some of the downright ignorant posts in this thread are a clear example of why people with mental illness feel stigmatised in Ireland. He was brave enough to admit it publicly in the hope that he would help others and some people are saying it's a marketing ploy? I'm sure there are better ways to market yourself than that.

I hope you or a family member don't have to deal with depression or severe anxiety at any time in your life, you won't be so quick to criticise then

Dracula!

I agree. Some people seem to think because he is "good looking" he can't suffer from mental or emotional problems and that it is ok to take the piss out of him. And people wonder why the young male suicide figures in Ireland are among the highest in the world. Why would a young person tell their friends about how low they are feeling if people will mock them.

It takes more courage to show weakness than strength as a male.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Bressie is a beaut. I watched that video just there now, almost 30 minutes of perfection

Amazingfun

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1011940508832719&set=vb.113566062003506&type=2&theater

Watch it there...great job Bressie

HeidiHeidi

Dracula! wrote: »

I agree. Some people seem to think because he is "good looking" he can't suffer from mental or emotional problems and that it is ok to take the piss out of him. And people wonder why the young male suicide figures in Ireland are among the highest in the world. Why would a young person tell their friends about how low they are feeling if people will mock them.

It takes more courage to show weakness than strength as a male.

This x 1000.

The cynicism and plain ignorance on this and the Marian Finnucane thread is astounding.

steddyeddy

WhiteWalls wrote: »

I will probably get slated for this but I cannot fathom how somebody can be in such a dark place and be a professional rugby player at the same time?

Willpower greater than most I suppose.

population

I seem to remember about 15 years ago that everyone was puzzled over Stan Collymore coming out as suffering from depression. Lots of angry phone-ins and The Sun even ran a piece where they talked to people with ordinary jobs and asked them how they felt about somone such as Stan, with all his money and celebrity, saying he was depressed. It was a litany of bile and lots of "I have to get up at 6am and I don't complain etc" comments from the ordinary working public.

All of which totally misses the point of depression. You may have more tools at your disposal if you have money, but you are still going to have to fight a long and painful battle. "You think you're depressed, I'll give you something to be depressed about" really undermines the suffering that people go through. There is a chemical imbalance that leads to a crushing sadness and low self worth and money does not heal it. It might paper over cracks but it is no cure.

I have no feelings one way or the other about Bressie or his sporting or musical careers, but I have to say that he is potentially helping someone going through a hard time by saying what he is saying. For that alone he should be given at the very least a sypathetic nod and less of the "This is all marketing" comments.

steddyeddy

Wait are people actually saying he's not ugly and I don't like his band so he wasn't depressed? What sort of idiots do we share this country with.

Mars Bar

Bressie asked people to do things to help raise awareness and to get people talking. A guy I know has done just that and will be releasing his talk app soon. He asked bressie to launch it. Bressie's agent or manager said he'd pass it on and bressie would get back to him. He never heard from bressie. Seems to be all talk and no action himself.

Duck's hoop

steddyeddy wrote: »

Wait are people actually saying he's not ugly and I don't like his band so he wasn't depressed? What sort of idiots do we share this country with.

I think some people are questioning his genuineness. Some people don't seem to get that depression is an illness and not a state of mind, but there is room to be cynical with regards to his personal motives.

It could be said he's making a bit of a profession out of depression. It's certainly not hurting his burgeoning media career (the publicity garnered, not the illness)

Could be he just means well and has no interest in feathering his own nest.

Oops69

Mars Bar wrote: »

Bressie asked people to do things to help raise awareness and to get people talking. A guy I know has done just that and will be releasing his talk app soon. He asked bressie to launch it. Bressie's agent or manager said he'd pass it on and bressie would get back to him. He never heard from bressie. Seems to be all talk and no action himself.

Ah come off it , did "the guy you know " speak to Bressie himself ?sound s abit like pub bullcrap tbh.

Kermit.de.frog

Dracula! wrote: »

In case you were curious your not funny.

Not trying to be funny. Depression is a serious issue.

BUT why start a thread about someone by name, not explain who he is and expect the rest of us to know when I don't know and I am sure many others did not know?

Noobascious

Depression mental illness a load of me hole. First world problems. Try thinking of something else and ul FEEL better. I don't think of smoking and I'm doing great since giving it up. And don't tell me nicotine doesn't affect the brain chemically.