Sport loves athletes with mental health issues – if they just shut up and play | Marina Hyde | The Guardian

The grand slams say Naomi Osaka’s decisions about press are ‘injurious’ to tennis. Perhaps they should look closer to home, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

 

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This all shows that the powers that be in sport, especially in Tennis do not care about people in sport, but are only there for their own interests and those of the media.

If these persons in power do not change then there could well be no participants in sport for tournaments to take place and they will only have themselves to blame.

Money and power are the root of all evil and will spoil the enjoyment of all concerned, the sport participants and the spectators of sports.

This will be the next area of abuse to be inspected, for we have already seen how participants have been treated by some trainers and managers in gymnastics

Money has taken over most sports and lead to great abuses of power or assumed power, the proposed Super league of top football clubs in Europe is another prime example

 

 

Source: Sport loves athletes with mental health issues – if they just shut up and play | Marina Hyde | The Guardian

Second Wheelchair Basketballer Considers Leg Amputation After Rule Change : Same Difference

This is disgraceful and shows the IPC are out of touch with disability, which makes them unsuitable to govern any form of disability sport.

It implies that a disability has to be seen to qualify as a disability, which is completely wrong and discounts many forms of unseen disability, including mental health.

Again some disabled people are being discriminated against and by a, so called, disability organisation.

The IPC needs to change or leave the ‘field of play’.

Same Difference

It seems this is a big story that should be shared and covered widely. This is the second such story we’ve covered in less than four weeks. We note that Oscar Knight is awaiting the outcome of the first case, George Bates.

A wheelchair basketball player deemed ineligible to play after a rule change says he is considering having his legs amputated.

GB Academy player Oscar Knight, 17, from Plymouth, suffers from complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).

He said new participation measures did not recognise his “poorly understood” condition and have made him “not the right kind of disabled” to compete.

The International Paralympics Committee (IPC) has been approached for comment.

In January, the committee told wheelchair basketball’s governing body, the IWBF, it needed to change its classification regulations in order to comply with the new code.

Under the IPC’s criteria, pain or hypermobility of joints are not eligible impairments…

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Trump Schooled Online After Claiming ‘1917’ Flu Pandemic ‘Probably Ended’ WWII | HuffPost UK

World War II began in 1939. And the Spanish flu pandemic began in 1918.

Source: Trump Schooled Online After Claiming ‘1917’ Flu Pandemic ‘Probably Ended’ WWII | HuffPost UK

Encopresis: Definition, causes, symptoms, and treatments : Medical News Today

Encopresis is leaking of stool in children after toilet training. There are many potential causes, including emotional stress and underlying conditions.

Source: Encopresis: Definition, causes, symptoms, and treatments : Medical News Today

One in seven Sheffield patients’ mental health problems “unrecognised by GP” | The Star

One in seven patients in Sheffield feel their mental health problems are going unrecognised by their GP, new figures suggest.

Source: One in seven Sheffield patients’ mental health problems “unrecognised by GP” | The Star

Treating dying people in hospices during Covid-19 is breaking me | Society | The Guardian

The restrictions over visitors are necessary but go against the whole ethos of the hospice and what we do

Source: Treating dying people in hospices during Covid-19 is breaking me | Society | The Guardian

Child mental health was in crisis before Covid-19. We can’t go back to ‘normal’ | Society | The Guardian

Services were already creaking pre-coronavirus, and vulnerable children will be even more at risk when the lockdown is lifted

Source: Child mental health was in crisis before Covid-19. We can’t go back to ‘normal’ | Society | The Guardian

Family of Errol Graham seek legal action against the DWP

’ A DWP spokesman said: ‘Our sympathies are with Mr Graham’s family. It would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.’

This is B—s, for do the DWP and the Government really care, for if they do then this institutional murder would have been stopped years ago.

This is Government policy, for eventually they wish for all benefit claimants to die and they are doing all they can to expedite the process.

Sensory overload: Symptoms, causes, and treatment : Medical News Today

Sensory overload is the over stimulation of one or more of the body’s senses. It often affects people with certain conditions, such as autism or ADHD. Learn more.

Source: Sensory overload: Symptoms, causes, and treatment : Medical News Today

Trump exploded after aides rejected his ‘insane’ 7-minute birther disavowal in 2016: book – Raw Story

President Donald Trump reportedly flew into a rage during the 2016 campaign after his lengthy and rambling statement on birtherism was edited down to something more concise and coherent. The Trump campaign wanted Trump to disavow the birther conspiracy theory that had launched him on his way to the Republican nomination, but he instead dictated […]

Source: Trump exploded after aides rejected his ‘insane’ 7-minute birther disavowal in 2016: book – Raw Story