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2017-05-06 15:53:45
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Players and depression
The pain becomes too much, the easiest way out is to take one's life.
“We also try to get players to recognize signs of team-mates not behaving the way they normally do. That is quite a complex issue but when you are playing seven days a week with people you learn their behavior.
“Now if you speak to a team-mate he might say ‘I’m fine’ but they also might come back several days later and say: ‘No,I am struggling.' It is the care that counts and we try to embrace that environment.”
Films on the PCA website include a moving interview with former Nottinghamshire player Kevin Saxelby, whose brother Mark, also a cricketer for Notts, took his own life aged 31 in 2000.
“As people become more aware of depression and listen to what other people have gone through you have more understanding,” said Saxelby. “It is difficult for men to admit they have a problem with depression. He just could not see any way out of the position he was in. The more we can tell people there is help out there, and they accept they need help, then we are in a position to get them on their way to some sort of recovery.”
“Now if you speak to a team-mate he might say ‘I’m fine’ but they also might come back several days later and say: ‘No,I am struggling.' It is the care that counts and we try to embrace that environment.”
Films on the PCA website include a moving interview with former Nottinghamshire player Kevin Saxelby, whose brother Mark, also a cricketer for Notts, took his own life aged 31 in 2000.
“As people become more aware of depression and listen to what other people have gone through you have more understanding,” said Saxelby. “It is difficult for men to admit they have a problem with depression. He just could not see any way out of the position he was in. The more we can tell people there is help out there, and they accept they need help, then we are in a position to get them on their way to some sort of recovery.”
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