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4 days ago
- Health
- BreakingNews.ie
James Wade says being at his best gives a feeling of relief, rather than pride
James Wade says he feels more relief than pride when he overcomes the challenges of bipolar disorder and performs at his best. The 42-year-old was diagnosed with the mental health condition in 2009 just as he had made his way to the top of the sport, having won a raft of major tournaments in the previous two years. Advertisement Wade, who is an ambassador for charity Bipolar UK, has been able to navigate the challenges the illness has presented to remain among the elite players, but concedes that success often comes with a sense of relief rather than pride. 'Proud is probably not a word that would come into it really,' he told the PA news agency. 'When I do well, I tick my own boxes in my mind. 'I know I can still do it, and I still can do it. When I do what I've been doing, at times, I just stand back and I feel probably relieved, because I know I can do it. 'But I also know how hard I can make it for myself. It's nothing to do about anyone else, it's about how I am and how I'm doing.' Advertisement There are many triggers to Wade's illness, including a packed schedule, but he can spot the signs and knows how to manage it. 'I find it exhausting talking to a lot of people like you're expected to because sometimes I just want to sit there and be quiet,' he said. 'If you do that for six days, seven days, doing something that's hard work for you, which other people take for granted, it mentally just drains you. Wade was at the top of the sport when he was diagnosed with bipolar (Sean Dempsey/PA) 'In it you start feeling really negative about everything. It makes you hate everything around that. 'And it can happen that quick. I had a couple, three, four days like that, but I went fishing, came back and felt really refreshed, to be fair. Advertisement 'So you know, quite lucky. It didn't go into a big valley of doom and gloom, which you can do for weeks and weeks and weeks.' In his role as an ambassador for Bipolar UK, Wade is hosting a charity dinner on August 22, to raise some much-needed funds. Darts pals Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price will be in attendance along with songwriter Nicky Chinn and TV presenter Leah Charles-King. Wade, who is preparing for the World Matchplay in Blackpool, said: 'Bipolar UK is probably one of the worst funded charities. You have so many link-ons to other charities that someone's doing this for that charity, then you'll have a link on to another. Advertisement 'Bipolar UK are on their own. They get nothing, which is disgusting. 'I'm lucky enough to have a small platform, and some people, not very many people, listen to me. 'When we approach people that are known, we always ask them to talk about the illness, because they're opening more doors, making more people aware of it, not just for treatment, but also for understanding of how people are at times. 'The last thing you want is someone ending their life because they're having a bad day with their illness. And that happens far too often.' Advertisement :: Tickets for James Wade's 'An Audience With Stars' at Old Thorns Resort & Hotel in Hampshire on August 22 are available at
The Independent
4 days ago
- Health
- The Independent
James Wade says being at his best gives a feeling of relief, rather than pride
James Wade says he feels more relief than pride when he overcomes the challenges of bipolar disorder and performs at his best. The 42-year-old was diagnosed with the mental health condition in 2009 just as he had made his way to the top of the sport, having won a raft of major tournaments in the previous two years. Wade, who is an ambassador for charity Bipolar UK, has been able to navigate the challenges the illness has presented to remain among the elite players, but concedes that success often comes with a sense of relief rather than pride. 'Proud is probably not a word that would come into it really,' he told the PA news agency. 'When I do well, I tick my own boxes in my mind. 'I know I can still do it, and I still can do it. When I do what I've been doing, at times, I just stand back and I feel probably relieved, because I know I can do it. 'But I also know how hard I can make it for myself. It's nothing to do about anyone else, it's about how I am and how I'm doing.' There are many triggers to Wade's illness, including a packed schedule, but he can spot the signs and knows how to manage it. 'I find it exhausting talking to a lot of people like you're expected to because sometimes I just want to sit there and be quiet,' he said. 'If you do that for six days, seven days, doing something that's hard work for you, which other people take for granted, it mentally just drains you. 'In it you start feeling really negative about everything. It makes you hate everything around that. 'And it can happen that quick. I had a couple, three, four days like that, but I went fishing, came back and felt really refreshed, to be fair. 'So you know, quite lucky. It didn't go into a big valley of doom and gloom, which you can do for weeks and weeks and weeks.' In his role as an ambassador for Bipolar UK, Wade is hosting a charity dinner on August 22, to raise some much-needed funds. Darts pals Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price will be in attendance along with songwriter Nicky Chinn and TV presenter Leah Charles-King. Wade, who is preparing for the World Matchplay in Blackpool, said: 'Bipolar UK is probably one of the worst funded charities. You have so many link-ons to other charities that someone's doing this for that charity, then you'll have a link on to another. 'Bipolar UK are on their own. They get nothing, which is disgusting. 'I'm lucky enough to have a small platform, and some people, not very many people, listen to me. 'When we approach people that are known, we always ask them to talk about the illness, because they're opening more doors, making more people aware of it, not just for treatment, but also for understanding of how people are at times. 'The last thing you want is someone ending their life because they're having a bad day with their illness. And that happens far too often.' :: Tickets for James Wade's 'An Audience With Stars' at Old Thorns Resort & Hotel in Hampshire on August 22 are available at
Yahoo
14-07-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
All a bit of a disaster: Farmer tells of heat and dry weather impact
A farmer in Yorkshire has said she will struggle to feed her animals after the dry weather and heat slashed her hay yields, adding: 'It's all a bit of a disaster.' Angela Serino is the director of Beetle Bank Open Farm & Wild Sanctuary in York – a small, open, working farm where the public can visit the animals. Beetle Bank – which has goats, pigs, alpacas and rabbits – grows its own hay on ten acres of land. But with Yorkshire experiencing one of its driest years on record, Ms Serino said Beetle Bank will not be able to operate as usual. 'This year we're expecting to have less than a quarter of the hay that we usually have,' she told the PA news agency. 'Nobody else seems interested around here but it's stressing me out big time because our animals are part of the system. You can't just be without them, and we can't be without food for them.' She continued: 'It's going to mean more animals will have to go than usual. 'Winter's always a bad time for us because we have very little income coming in and now we'll have a massive, massive food bill to find the money for as well because we'll have to feed our animals hard food and hope that there's plenty of that about.' Beetle Bank usually produces around 50 to 70 big bales of hay a year. (Image: Beetle Bank Open Farm /PA Wire) 'I'm not expecting to have more than about ten this year looking at the fields,' Ms Serino said. 'That's a couple of thousands of pounds down the drain before you get going never mind the feed that you have to buy in to replace that.' The farm director has been in contact with other farmers in the area who have told her they will have 'very little' hay for sale this year. She told PA that Beetle Bank is looking into an irrigation system to mitigate the impact from dry and hot weather if the same conditions return next year. Ms Serino said: 'Strangely enough I've been thinking about it all spring – this spring when it was really hot and dry, and I was thinking should I go out, should I buy a water canon of some description and you just think that this is Britain and it will change. (Image: Beetle Bank Open Farm /PA Wire) 'You don't want to spend £5,000 on some sort of water system that sprinkles the fields when you don't have to and at the end of the day I should have just gone and done it then I wouldn't be in the state I'm in today. 'It's all a bit of a disaster to be honest. 'I don't remember being stressed about the winter in the summer before, except for 2019 where it poured with rain from the middle of middle of May until, god, I think February.' Ms Serino is not currently getting any support from the Government, saying it 'doesn't care about farming'. (Image: Beetle Bank Open Farm /PA Wire) 'In an ideal world, they could go around and give us all a grant for the machinery we need to make what we need,' she said. 'There was a grant going not long ago but it's so difficult to actually apply for these things. There's so many hoops you've got to jump through to actually get something and you have to match the funding. 'Well, if you don't have any money it's very difficult to match funding. 'It's difficult times, and farming is not good.' Besides the issues with hay yields, Ms Serino said the farm has used 'an awful lot more water than usual' this year and has struggled to put up fencing it needed because the ground is 'like a rock'. The hot weather has also impacted revenue from visitors. 'Today and yesterday, we've only half the customers we should have because they don't like this weather,' Ms Serino told PA. 'So when it gets this hot, it has an effect on your revenue as well as your costs. 'We are way down on revenue today. This will be one of the worst Saturdays we've had in a long time.' She said the climate has gone 'completely upside down inside out' in the last five or six years. 'I just sort of saw it coming, but not properly,' she said. 'I saw something coming but not the actual extent that it is until you're sat on the doorstep with it. 'It's difficult to predict but I didn't really predict that you'd have months and months of no rain. 'I mean, every week you look at the weather and it says rain. I look on my phone now and it says it's raining Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and it just doesn't rain.' Yorkshire and the North East has seen an average of just 242.8mm of rain so far in 2025 – less than half the amount that had fallen by this stage last year (542.3mm). Cumulative rainfall so far this year is the lowest for this part of the country since 1959, when 238.1mm had fallen by July 9.
