Ben Stokes withdraws from all cricket!

Seems to be a popular choice these days across sport. Has it become more stressful and pressurised or are sports people
( see what I did there) more in tune with their emotions.
 
Good wishes to him. Hope he can resolve the issues.

Perhaps mental health now embraces ‘I’m fucked’. Maybe they are the same..

Great player.
 
He lost his Dad recently too right? Within the past 12 months? Lots going on in the world. Perfectly fine to take a break and recharge the batteries.

All the best to him.
 
Hope he gets himself well after a long break. A wonderful cricketer who has been on the hamster wheel of all formats globally for probably too long.

Good luck to him.
 
It’s been a very hard period of time for a lot of people. Holidays - real holidays - have been scarce and we’ve been confined by restrictions of movement. Throw in all the usual things that happen during life, like the death of a parent etc. and it’s not surprising that we are seeing people opening up and saying ‘I need a break.’

For cricketers they’ve had the added scenario of spending periods of time in confinement, just to do their job. All away from family and with the rigours of long distance travel thrown in.

Really hard for them as players. And totally understandable this situation.
 
Watch The Edge on BBC iPlayer

It shows our sporting heroes in tears due to the pressures of being the best team in the world

Good watch !!

Sad for Stokes
 
Huge respect to anybody who makes the decision to put their health first. I wish Simone Biles and Ben Stokes the very best . They are both hugely talented , have nothing to prove and it is an important reminder that anybody can be affected by mental health issues and that it is nothing to be ashamed of. They must put themselves first.
 
Hope he’s ok, after a break.
it makes you wonder if the sacrifices & routines these elite sports men & women go through, to fine tune them to the nth degree really take their needs as a human being into consideration. My take on it is money talks & they’re just collateral damage.
 
I can only wish him well and hope that a rest and appropriate care will get Ben back to full mental health. I'm sure, like many, C19 and the loss of a loved one has had an impact, then when you consider the lengthy bubbles cricketers need to be in, it is totally understandable.
 
Scaramanga said:
Seems to be a popular choice these days across sport. Has it become more stressful and pressurised or are sports people
( see what I did there) more in tune with their emotions.
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No, I missed what you did there Scara but you are right. It's huge pressure on those at the top and it's the same old culprits - the tabloid press.
 
Good luck to him, he's been huge for England and deserves to be able to look after himself. I hope he comes back stronger and maybe plays less formats so that he can spend more time with his family.
 
Ooh It’s a Corner said:
what’s his situation you know all twunt
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Well presumably, as a massively successful cricketer, he can afford it even if he wasn't getting paid.

Also, he's probably thinking that's not the most important thing right now.

Also, not a know it all, just a fuck ton more than you apparently.

And don't beat around the bush fella, call a ** a ** eh?
 
Are you the lad he knocked out? You seem the type, bit mouthy, got a bit of an anger problem, can't quite back it up though, am I close?
 
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Ooh It’s a Corner said:
I would like his job as would millions of others ; do you work twunt ?
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Yes, the mental health wards are full of people capable of carrying on but choosing not to.
Go and have a little trip around the harbour maybe. Those places are your worst nightmare.
Not everyone in there will have been born with a mental health condition.
Some break because of life, somebody else may not.
I know which camp I’d like to fall into.
It’s not a choice, and if it was it’s certainly one most of us wouldn’t choose.
 
All the best to him. I lost my Mum, 2 and half years ago. I have never accepted that I will not see, Basically my best friend again in this life. I sometimes cry about it now. I try to be tough, Tattoos on arms etc. But losing a parent rips you apart. Life is never the same.
 
Am sure we'll behind him and guess he's got problems that weren't t helped by what the sun. Came up with Murdoch and all
 
Pool CW said:
All the best to him. I lost my Mum, 2 and half years ago. I have never accepted that I will not see, Basically my best friend again in this life. I sometimes cry about it now. I try to be tough, Tattoos on arms etc. But losing a parent rips you apart. Life is never the same.
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Losing your parents suddenly makes you feel old, it did with me anyway.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Losing your parents suddenly makes you feel old, it did with me anyway.
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Everything. Older, younger, vulnerable. Went into religion. Mainly to ask, is there afterlife ?. A feeling of, I have lived another life ?. What's the point ?. I have handled it worse than I thought. I will never get over it. What does me most of all is, She has missed out on our lovely Grand daughter. Miss my Mam so much.
 
Pool CW said:
Everything. Older, younger, vulnerable. Went into religion. Mainly to ask, is there afterlife ?. A feeling of, I have lived another life ?. What's the point ?. I have handled it worse than I thought. I will never get over it. What does me most of all is, She has missed out on our lovely Grand daughter. Miss my Mam so much.
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That’s really sad and lots of us have been there.
You don’t get over some things, and you never stop loving and missing that person you lost.
But you can adapt with time, and you can arrive at a place where it doesn’t hurt you the way it did, not as intensely and not in an all consuming way.
And then you can even become happy having your memories and knowing you owe it to yourself to live a fulfilled life without the person you miss being in it.
The point of life is whatever point you can find in it that works for you eventually 👍
 
Lala said:
Yes, the mental health wards are full of people capable of carrying on but choosing not to.
Go and have a little trip around the harbour maybe. Those places are your worst nightmare.
Not everyone in there will have been born with a mental health condition.
Some break because of life, somebody else may not.
I know which camp I’d like to fall into.
It’s not a choice, and if it was it’s certainly one most of us wouldn’t choose.
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I’d agree with most of that but from experience I’d say as the mental health wards are so stretched they are full of people not capable of carrying on, the people who are capable of carrying on but choose not to get the next best thing which is mental health workers calling everyday if needed, mostly with a trainee- god they need to train a lot of people up to even scratch the surface of this horrible illness it’s the amount of people slipping through the net who don’t have a network of friends and family to refer them I feel really sorry for, the NHS will never keep up, luckily the advances in medicine are massive with good long term treatment for depression, bi polar etc, like it or not it’s the only way we can keep on top of this awful illness
 
Surprised he's not being told to snap out of it by Piers Morgan like he did with Simone Biles.
 
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