Clarke Carlisle: Football is way behind cricket in dealing with mental health issues
Clarke Carlisle: Football is way behind cricket in dealing with mental health issues
London Evening Standard
Clarke Carlisle is now able to talk frankly about the issues that saw him step in front of an oncoming lorry three days before Christmas.
It was only towards the end of his career that Carlisle first learned he was suffering from depression and by that stage he had already tried to take his own life once. After his second suicide attempt last year, Clarke spent six weeks in a psychiatric hospital.
The former Queens Park Rangers and Watford defender is now trying to promote the issues surrounding mental illness and wishes organisations, such as the FA, would do more.
“The governing bodies of football haven’t done anything,” says the 35-year-old. “I went to interview David Bernstein two years ago, when he was in situ as chair of the FA, and he couldn’t tell me a single initiative that they were working on in mental health.”
Two weeks ago Clarke helped Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg launch the Mental Health Charter for Recreation and Sport. The FA are among those to have signed up to it but Clarke says: “I really am reluctant to give them a pat on the back because all it is is a charter to ask organisations to look at what they are doing and to acknowledge mental health as an issue.
London Evening Standard
Clarke Carlisle is now able to talk frankly about the issues that saw him step in front of an oncoming lorry three days before Christmas.
It was only towards the end of his career that Carlisle first learned he was suffering from depression and by that stage he had already tried to take his own life once. After his second suicide attempt last year, Clarke spent six weeks in a psychiatric hospital.
The former Queens Park Rangers and Watford defender is now trying to promote the issues surrounding mental illness and wishes organisations, such as the FA, would do more.
“The governing bodies of football haven’t done anything,” says the 35-year-old. “I went to interview David Bernstein two years ago, when he was in situ as chair of the FA, and he couldn’t tell me a single initiative that they were working on in mental health.”
Two weeks ago Clarke helped Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg launch the Mental Health Charter for Recreation and Sport. The FA are among those to have signed up to it but Clarke says: “I really am reluctant to give them a pat on the back because all it is is a charter to ask organisations to look at what they are doing and to acknowledge mental health as an issue.
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