Mental Health in Extreme Sports – We Need To Talk
Mental Health in Extreme Sports – We Need To Talk
DIRTY HABITS Presents “We Need To Talk” a heartfelt documentary about Mental Health in Extreme Sports and action sports athletes. It follows Professional Kiteboarder, Graham Howes & Pro Wakeboarder Ryan Peacock as they explore the unique challenges and stigma surrounding mental health in the high-stakes world of action sports from…
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It's probably impossible to be aware of in the moment, but extreme sports has got to be a very, very limited career length of maybe 10 years if you're lucky and extremely skilled.
I dont care if i die, thats how i can do amazing but stupid things. Thats the trick.
Wish I’d made Friends who understood this part of me… it’s a lifestyle and a culture not a hobby or silly lark. Respect to all who live this way navigating misunderstood occasionally. 🪄✨aloha misunderstand abused water& air sprite 💖
Thank you guys. I think this video can help not only to athletes. I found it really helpful for many. Especially for those who lost everything and start life from 0.
This was really beautiful to watch, thank you for making it, I'm sure it will help a lot of people to start the difficult conversations.
this is what I call real men! beautiful exposure
Aw, poor guys. I guess even super privileged white males have problems. 🫤
edit: finished the video and the big elephant in the room is narcissism, right? This is called the narcissistic crisis when they can’t get their supply of outside validation and worship anymore. Of course this lifestyle of celebrity and the outside image attracts a lot of narcissist’s to begin with. These guy’s definitely need therapy but the problem is they often think the problem is something that came from the outside, like the pressure, addiction, burnout, depression and they have a huge problem to really accept the factor of their own personality and behaviour behind it.
OMFG🎉 so glad to see you guys are back at it again!!! Your Pensacola, FL family misses you and can’t wait to see you guys next month 🤘🙌 You all were such a huge influence on my friends and I in the old days (Sluggos, etc…) Epic fun and shenanigans….and more to come.
19:49 he just brings it on the point
But remember if you ever feel down your kite will always be there to lift you up 🙂
Which is the last song?
😋 Promo*SM
I'm absolutley not a pro!
but I have been there: having crashes, questioning my life, questioning the things I do, not beeing motivated to go to work, withdrawing from family & friends, trying to forget my thoughts & not facing my feelings, …
what I learned from the past is to face what I feel, face my fears & thoughts. life is a bitch and on the other hand it can be soo amazing. I'm trying to not get stuck in the bad moments , just moving on because time will not stop – after every down comes an up, life is a journey and no easy one!
thanks for the video, feels good hearing people talking freely about this!
Only Christ Jesus can fill the gap you are seeking to fill . . .
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27:30 What a great speech. I'm 29 and suddenly got my life taken away from me.
Going to open heart surgery tomorrow, there's a 20% chance they have to put a pacemaker on me. I just suddenly got sepsis that destroyed my heart valve..
I lost my dog, lost my apartment so I'm currently homeless, my grandpa died, all of this bad luck shit happened within this year's April. One month.
I'm so scared i can't do sports anymore or go to the gym or rollercoasters and all that..
And yeah, I'm 29. All of this just suddenly happened without warning. If i happen to die on the operating table tomorrow, all i wanna say is to just live and enjoy the small things. Don't grab and hold on to all the negative stuff, even though it's super easy.
What a great documentary, that final speech made me cry.
That man on the couch is wise
awesome.
Didn’t know I needed this
Why does every action activity have to be classified as an "extreme sport"? It is possible to dabble in the middle of the road on most of these pastimes, be it mountain biking, paragliding, kite boarding, whatever… I've never felt like the guy that wing suits 2 feet from the cliff face, derives linearly greater joy, given the exponential erosion of saftey, than the guy that stays a safer 20' off does. Maybe this will sound like an embrace of mediocrity but, my older "adrenaline junkie" buddies have almost all learned that they get just as much pleasure getting out there, as they used to when we were younger "pushing the edges" of envelopes. I think the greater problem here is not related to sports at all, but rather to limitation of the human psyche, which in itself has extreme cliff edges. To the younger athletes in this production I have to ask…"What will you derive pleasure from once your body say it can no longer do those cutting edge new tricks, 100' wave rides, low level base jumps or double black run?"
Just hang out with Nick. Simple.
"Stay away from girls and drugs". There is so much more to be rebuilt in a person who doesn"t know how to connect or who to connect with. My advise: stay close to good conections and women are great option too – choose right
Jesus Christ could be the missing piece to the puzzle.
It is the only solution I can see to this problem
Awesome work
Brilliant! Thanks a lot
Thrill seeking is the Stuntman’s sad cousin. Control is the key. Over emotion. If you have a.d.d or anxiety for example, focusing takes it away. Maybe momentarily, possibly a long time.
that entry from november 3rd 2020… minute 20:30 on, really hit.
where are the women though
These poor guys 😢
They don't have anything going for them other than athletics.
Tbh I love my extreme sport, BMX freestyle is what I look forward to everyday. Only thing that pisses me off is 720s and how occasionally I’ll just lose them and the only way to get it back is to stop trying it for a few days and then just get warmed up, drop on and huck it without thinking.
Thank you.
Out fing standing work.
Injured athletes have had to deal with all this forever. But fing covid basically put millions of us in that similar position by taking away the daily, weekly habits we feel is our identity. For me it’s just coaching my kids at golf, going to tournaments, all those things. Covid kicked my ass. It got me thinking of how much I value not just my life but everyone’s life, and it became an uncontrollable feeling to know how many were suffering. And of course it was hard to escape those thoughts because there wasn’t much to do.
I do think going through these things helps us grow, but man it’s a shitty way to grow.
Your efforts to bring understanding to these things is just awesome. Thanks.
You are self focused. Go be a blessing to others around you and you'll be loved! Thanks for sharing!!😎🏝
🥺🥺🥺Super interesting. I think in life in general it's like this. At the end of the day it's how you get through the ups and downs. As @RubenLen10 says… "life is about growing". Thanks for this approach. Totally identified after a super accident in which I almost died last week. I still don't know when I'll be back in to the water.🥺🥺🥺Cheers!
I realize a lot of people including myself are going through it mentally. I love to climb because of it. When I’m having a particularly rough day, I climb higher. It’s because I need an outlet. I need to feel something other than nothing. This is it. Rather do what I love or enjoy than not.
Wow. Thank you so much for making this film. Thank you to you and all the contributors that bared their souls and bravely showed their vulnerability behind the curtain. Great section on the ego. Thank you to the Doctor.
Wishing you all the very best for your journey 🤙✨️
This isn't exactly what you are talking about, but…
I'm no world class mountain biker. I'm not great. But recently I think the reason I've stayed riding is because I feel so close to death. Whether its the back of my mind hoping it all just ends instantly or my survival instincts that kick in and prevent me from hitting a jump I know I'm capable of. Both feelings suck but they are both what keep me riding. Its confusing and terrifying, and I want to get back to riding for the fun of it, not for the confusing depression reasons.
At the core I am similar to most of the men in this video, but from a different sport and different time. I started whitewater kayaking in the 80s as a teenager, there was no social media, I never had sponsors. I had already dealt with severe depression before I started paddling. I used whitewater as my escape from the situation at the source of my issues. It never resolved the issues but it provided a way to "cope". I chased competition and more and more difficult rivers. I took up rock climbing (yes some free solo) and expanded my passion for mountain biking (yes DH). I lost friends to river accidents and knew deep down the probability of a serious accident grew the more time I spent at the sharpest end of the sport, but I didn't care about the result of such an accident. Whitewater accidents tend to get binary in their outcomes in the hardest rapids, either you're ok or you drown. As I got older and found someone important to me, my perspective changed, and through injury I had to stop paddling at that level. Much later in life I dealt with severe depression again, and found the Hoffman Institute which helped me learn what the actual source of it all was. Anyone struggling with depression should seek help, but be warned not all help is equal. Finding a way to move on from extreme sports into more mainstream lives is very challenging and you do not need to do it all on your own. Flow and exploration is what I seek out now, I never cared about fame and still don't. Stepping back and gaining perspective on "the why" is really important. Once you can find why, and find an authentic way to provide it in more parts of your life, you can live outside of what you think is the only way to do so. When I meet people into any extreme sport I do get around to asking the "why" question to see at what stage in the journey they are at, and most are a bit puzzled when I ask. Some ignore my reason, some are curious. Men's mental health issues are largely ignored, which really needs to change.
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This is the message that needs to be shared. This is exactly what I needed to here. I don't have depression or anxiety but the only people that understand me are the other people that love extreme sports. There is a sort of brotherhood formed when people crave the same addicting adreneline. I'll try to explain it to people but they just don't understand why I do what I do. I tell my friends my dreams of being a professional and they all talk about how it's super unlikely and that I probably won't make it. But they are about to be so wrong because it is my calling to be an extreme sport athlete. Thank you so much for this, I rarely see anything related to action sports but now I have found it. Thank you again for this.
I was a weekend warrior, not a pro athlete. I still love and follow all kinds of "action sports." During a bike (bicycle) ride I went over the handlebars and did a lawn dart, head first onto the sidewalk. I damaged my C5/6 vertebrae. I've been a quadriplegic for over 12 years. S**t happens. With the support of my wife, two children, and family, life rolls on. Literally. I am healthy enough to be able to get around in a manual wheelchair as opposed to a power chair. The Triumph Foundation, Be Perfect Foundation, and Casa Colina Rehab Hospital taught me that there is life after a spinal cord injury. Because of them, I am involved in adaptive sports. Water and snow skiing, biking, surfing, and off-roading aren't the same as when I was able-bodied but it's the next best thing and I'm still active. Exercise is medicine. Please see my YouTube channel. 💪♿
Hey man, this video… is so important. So great. I and so many guys I know have such a similar story. Thank you for sharing. The human experience is so much greater when we get to share the existence with others. The good and the bad. ✌🤙
You need captions in Spanish, none of my mates can watch this