Self-esteem!
But who could have ever imagined this sudden turn, this instant flip from surfing being the bastion of bastards to it being the spring of well-being? Just yesterday, we learned that a noted mental health expert declared surfing as “good for self-esteem.” And today?
Today, England’s National Health Services are rolling out a “social prescribing” program wherein surfing, rollerskating and gardening will be officially recommended by doctors for teens and preteens suffering from anxiety, depression or a general sullenness.
“Young people’s mental health is one of the greatest challenges facing the NHS,” Dr Daisy Fancourt, the UCL mental health expert running the trial, told The Guardian. “Currently many young people referred to child and adolescent mental health services face long waits, during which time more than three-quarters experience a deterioration in their mental health.
“Social prescribing has the potential to support young people while they wait, by providing access to a range of creative and social activities that could enhance their confidence, self-esteem and social support networks.”
And there it is again.
Self-esteem.
Do you worry that the well-meaning mental health experts and National Health Services departments might suffer a backlash when it is revealed that surfing actively erodes self-esteem?
Teenagers already feeling anxious forced to paddle into a simmering pack of grouchy locals?
Or, worse, an ultra-positive Erik Logan?
Yikes.
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VAL rollerskaters sounds pretty funny
we have programs…or else Yellowstone
“Eyeing girls from park bench’s aqualung…” ROXY/
NonJohn turns to rum rations to heal depression while Tom Curren roller skates.
repair kit
I’ve seen one of those chicks in the photo on the reg for many years. She big ups everybody and is a really decent person. Sounds like a mental health plus.
Charles:
(1) Where I’m from, the grouchy locals are volunteering to take the kids out
(2) Don’t conflate kids who in some cases have never had the chance to be in the sea with the entitled VALpocalyspe. Remember what the ‘A’ stands for!
(3) If these two articles in two days become another rich seam in the salt mine, well, did you not get scooped by The Inertia…?
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sometimes I get in a pretty bad mood just pulling in to the parking lot
Surfing in England leads to depression. And telling teenagers to take up gardening is ridiculous.
Clearly, you have never grown weed
cooks wanted, after dishes cleaned…got squid!
living in the Uk is depressing!
What they really are saying is “It takes like 8 months just to get an appointment with a mental health professional in the UK given how abysmal the healthcare wait times have become, so just learn to surf instead.”
Need to get off there phones. Get some sunshine in there eyes. Some exercise. This will not be enough for all kids but a majority don’t need to be medicated there whole lives. Not all are ADHD. John Huberman has some good insight on mental health. It does take effort though.
It seems BG will be on the right side of history here — supporting the great unplug by making every article nearly f’ing impossible to read with all the ads + popups. Should open with a seizure warning for all these attempts to engage.
It just feels normal to me now
Catherine Bach for the win!!
abort
Dr. Daisy is an idiot.
P.S.
How did she get her fanny caught ?
What was her fanny caught on ?
So many questions…