Re: PC David Rathband RIP : Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:56 am  

or simplistic terms, they are just nob heads.

Re: PC David Rathband RIP : Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:07 pm  

An indictment of the lack of care in our society. People are cast as heroes by the establishment but then ignored when they are in their hour of need.

Re: PC David Rathband RIP : Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:38 pm  

Dally wrote:

An indictment of the lack of care in our society. People are cast as heroes by the establishment but then ignored when they are in their hour of need.

Although unless they ask for help how is anyone supposed to know ?

Part of the nature of depression is denial, its hard enough to get a victim to go to their own GP for advice let alone ring up their employer (or former employer?) and ask if there is any free counselling they can have.

Re: PC David Rathband RIP : Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:10 pm  

Sad story indeed.

Re: PC David Rathband RIP : Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:39 pm  

McLaren_Field wrote:

Although unless they ask for help how is anyone supposed to know ?

Part of the nature of depression is denial, its hard enough to get a victim to go to their own GP for advice let alone ring up their employer (or former employer?) and ask if there is any free counselling they can have.

Would have thought it obvious that someone in his position would hit the buffers in the medium term.

Look at all the soldiers - injured in action, classed as heroes and left in poverty for the rest of their lives.

Re: PC David Rathband RIP : Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:50 pm  

Dally wrote:

An indictment of the lack of care in our society. People are cast as heroes by the establishment but then ignored when they are in their hour of need.

That is so desperate I am lost for words. You know nothing about either the circumstances or what support he had, yet gratuitously indict his care provision and imply that his death is in consequence of lack of proper support. Breathtakingly crass. Well done.

Re: PC David Rathband RIP : Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:47 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

That is so desperate I am lost for words. You know nothing about either the circumstances or what support he had, yet gratuitously indict his care provision and imply that his death is in consequence of lack of proper support. Breathtakingly crass. Well done.

I agree. PC Rathband may have had all the support possible and, I suspect, a huge amount of counselling therapy to try and help him cope.
Sometimes it's not enough. Even those who walk around with a smile on their face all day long could be battling inner emotional demons.

[Durham Giant]

Re: PC David Rathband RIP : Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:08 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

That is so desperate I am lost for words. You know nothing about either the circumstances or what support he had, yet gratuitously indict his care provision and imply that his death is in consequence of lack of proper support. Breathtakingly crass. Well done.

Not one normally to support Dally but Rathband had being very critical of the Police and contemplated legal action against them about a lack of support and possibly taking them to an industrial tribunal

Re: PC David Rathband RIP : Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:12 am  

A very sad story. RIP

Re: PC David Rathband RIP : Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:57 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

That is so desperate I am lost for words. You know nothing about either the circumstances or what support he had, yet gratuitously indict his care provision and imply that his death is in consequence of lack of proper support. Breathtakingly crass. Well done.

You are a sad case. See DG's comments BUT more especially I was not referring just to "care" through some inept public body but at a wider societal level.