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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad as Fish" data-source="post: 113585" data-attributes="member: 396">There has been a big fuss made of mental health issues of late so there is little surprise that more are admitting to it now that the shame associated with it is dropping away. It was probably a much larger problem in the past when the elder son was left to run the farm as the parents grew old and once they died off he was left alone with no spouse/family of his own. Often they degenerated to living in a hovel with the dogs and cats as the roof fell in and their only escape was drink. It's been seen many a time, but it was never spoken off, another of Ireland's dirty little secrets.This stuff about extreme weather events. There have always extreme weather events but people just got on with life, but now there is a handle to be put on them and farmers can make themselves feel important, and hopefully get more subsidies, by talking about them as if the end of the world was nigh. I'd say it's more psychological than actual. Communication is also far easier nowadays so we get to hear about things that we probably would not of done before, giving the impression that all is going downhill.</blockquote>

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