British Banker Formally Diagnosed with PTSD Coming to Cambodia to Fundraise

[CEOCambodiaNews]

Birstall dad discusses mental health battle ahead of Cambodia trek



A ten-day trek through the wilds of Cambodia later this year won’t be the toughest test ever undertaken by Birstall dad Mark Waters.

The 34-year-old bank worker is setting out on the challenge to raise money for the mental health charity that helped him through some of the darkest days of his life during an ongoing 14-year battle with his own mental health.

“I really struggled for ten years. I used to go on huge drinking binges to block out the pain and would fall out with my wife because of it.

“One night I went out driving really fast, deliberately running red lights. I didn’t want to kill myself, but I just didn’t care. I think I wanted to hurt myself so that people knew I needed help.”

Anyone wishing to donate to the cause can do so by visiting his fundraising website at uk.virginmoneygiving.com/MARKWaters16

[Kammekor]

Birstall dad discusses mental health battle ahead of Cambodia trek



A ten-day trek through the wilds of Cambodia later this year won’t be the toughest test ever undertaken by Birstall dad Mark Waters.

The 34-year-old bank worker is setting out on the challenge to raise money for the mental health charity that helped him through some of the darkest days of his life during an ongoing 14-year battle with his own mental health.

“I really struggled for ten years. I used to go on huge drinking binges to block out the pain and would fall out with my wife because of it.

“One night I went out driving really fast, deliberately running red lights. I didn’t want to kill myself, but I just didn’t care. I think I wanted to hurt myself so that people knew I needed help.”

Anyone wishing to donate to the cause can do so by visiting his fundraising website at uk.virginmoneygiving.com/MARKWaters16

Click bait?

I read w@nker.....

Sorry.

[Arget]

A ten-day trek through the wilds of Cambodia

is he going to sinoville chicken farms?????

[Captain]

Don't forget to GoFundHim!

[jimpson]

I and many others have funded British (and other wankers - sorry I meant bankers) for years!

[RickyBobby]

Before they had PTSD, they used to call soldiers suffering with these symptoms weak. This guy got PTSD from what exactly? I think many/most of us could get that diagnosis; I know my marriage gave it to me.

[Jerry Atrick]

His nan dies and six months later his old man died while they were in the midst of a minor falling out and he found the corpse.

Ten years later; Lloyd's Bank discovered this and attributed PTSD, anxiety and depression in this geezer as stemming from above events.

Quite naturally, they are sending him to raise £2500 to fly to Cambodia, walk a distance, and fly home again as a means of coping with his heavy burden.

Yeah.

[RickyBobby]

His nan dies and six months later his old man died while they were in the midst of a minor falling out and he found the corpse.

Ten years later; Lloyd's Bank discovered this and attributed PTSD, anxiety and depression in this geezer as stemming from above events.

Quite naturally, they are sending him to raise £2500 to fly to Cambodia, walk a distance, and fly home again as a means of coping with his heavy burden.

Yeah.

It's an insult to the people that have real PTSD from real war.

[armchairlawyer]

go on huge drinking binges
deliberately running red lights.

He'll fit right in here.

[newkidontheblock]

It's an insult to the people that have real PTSD from real war.

It’s just a general term. But not doubt, those in the military get the worst of it. And those in combat get the worst of the worst of it. They get my respect to volunteering to go through all of it so I can have the freedom to go to places like the KOW.

There was a Frenchmen once, served in the Foreign Legion for many years, then in the US Army, and then gained citizenship. He told me part of him was still back in the desert and that the sands were blowing over half his face.

His brain knew it to be untrue, but his body felt like it was real all the same.