Mark Allen battling depression

Witz78 wrote:Get a grip Allen and whilst your at it hit the gym or something if your bored stuck in your hotel.

This bugs me, in the good ole days there was Camaraderie among the players with social circles of gamblers, drinkers etc and some real fun to be had off the table. Now things are professional these faceless wonders live like monks.

Get out on the drink or hit the casino in between matches, live your life, your only young once, no point moping about feeling sorry for yourself.

These should be the best years of your life Allen.

Take a leaf out of Knowles, White, Higgins and Hanns book by preparing for a morning session at the Crucible by hitting a nightclub till the early hours.

Tubberlad wrote:No, telling someone to just get on with it doesn't work. But I won't dwell on it as he's entitled to his opinion. Anyway, I won't be getting too deep into it

Tubberlad wrote:Just to make one thing clear, I don't agree with wrapping everyone up in cotton wool either, a bit of tough love is no harm in my opinion, I just simply don't agree with telling someone with depression the get over themselves and go on the snake hiss and pretend everything is okay...

Tubberlad wrote:Wild, you don't actually need something to be wrong to be depressed. I think Trescothick had a massive fear of touring and had no personal issues, but my god it sounds like he was a mess.

A good friend of mine is clinically depressed and her family have it all...

Witz78 wrote:Get a grip Allen and whilst your at it hit the gym or something if your bored stuck in your hotel.

This bugs me, in the good ole days there was Camaraderie among the players with social circles of gamblers, drinkers etc and some real fun to be had off the table. Now things are professional these faceless wonders live like monks.

Get out on the drink or hit the casino in between matches, live your life, your only young once, no point moping about feeling sorry for yourself.

These should be the best years of your life Allen.

Take a leaf out of Knowles, White, Higgins and Hanns book by preparing for a morning session at the Crucible by hitting a nightclub till the early hours.

jojo wrote:no he said in his book that was a totally false rumour it was more to do with the other things i mentioned earlier

I listened last week to Geoffrey Boycott, the former England cricketer, giving his ill informed views about a player who had been diagnosed with depression. It was clear some people still think it's a case of 'just cheer up.'

That's a bit like telling someone with a broken leg to go and run a marathon.

I understand he simply couldn't get on the plane to play in the Hainan Classic.

Bourne wrote:I wonder who tipped Dave off about this story

Monique wrote:http://snookerscene.blogspot.com/2011/03/mark-allen-battles-depression.html

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I listened last week to Geoffrey Boycott, the former England cricketer, giving his ill informed views about a player who had been diagnosed with depression. It was clear some people still think it's a case of 'just cheer up.'

That's a bit like telling someone with a broken leg to go and run a marathon.

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I understand he simply couldn't get on the plane to play in the Hainan Classic.

Sonny wrote:

Bourne wrote:I wonder who tipped Dave off about this story

I think it was some twitter hussy called phil90210

nice_shoes_ken wrote:Just seen an article on Eurosport confirming that he has depression, Mark is my favourite player and such a rising talent in the game of Snooker, one of my family members went through the depression stage and it is a very sad thing to go through. Wish him all the best and hope he can have a good run at the World Championships again.

bbcsport_mark Mark Ashenden
Interesting words by "very lonely" snooker star Mark Allen. "Some days I wake up + can't be bothered + don't have motivation to do anything"
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kostasmad wrote:He needs a slap alright...or many punches...