Niall Breslin - Carrying the hopes of a nation

[tazdedub]

It would remind you of the zebo/murray shenanigans that went on a few years ago.

[TreatyStones]

@TreatyStones

He specifically says in his 2013 articles that he never suffered from a panic attack, that he just got anxious after the first series of the voice.

He also specifically says it was a new “condition” and "People who would have known me before would realise that was not me at all.”

Yet now this has morphed into his teenage years being ruined by “Crippling insomnia, harrowing panic attacks and incomprehensible self-harm dictated my life, all disguised behind a mask of normality that polarised the general lazy stereotype or label we associate with those with a mental health illness."

@backinatracksuit

[Tassotti]

maybe he wasn’t ready to talk about it or be honest with himself, a lot of Irish lads are like that

[TreatyStones]

@TreatyStones

Voice star Bressie has revealed being on the hit RTE show left him with crippling anxiety.

The 32-year-old singer said the fame that came with the success of the first series left him having palpitations.

He spoke out on RTE Radio One’s John Murray Show with hopes of encouraging others in the same situation to get help.

Bressie said: “It was relatively recently and I’m quite open about it. It’s something that for too long has been stigmatised in this country. People assume anxiety and stress are the same.

“But anxiety is all-consuming – it takes over your life and it doesn’t pick its victims. Often people will say, ‘But
everything is going well,’ but that doesn’t make a difference really.”

Bressie added he first felt the symptoms when he became the hottest new property in Ireland as a coach on The Voice.

He said: “For me it was when the show started I think. I started realising I had lost a bit of my anonymity and it just
came on.

“With anxiety there are massive issues with sleeping. You have palpitations in situations especially if you are doing live television.

“And I said to myself, ‘That’s the kind of person I am, I’ve got to learn to control it’.”

Bressie said it was getting back into physical exercise that helped him manage his condition as he had missed it since he gave up his rugby playing to make a go of his first band The Blizzards.

He said: “Other people don’t learn to control it and they take up the wrong way and go down the wrong route with it.

“But that was one of the main reasons I got into the triathlon training. I felt that was a really good thing because I missed that physical challenge I had when I played rugby.

“That’s a big void in my life so I started doing triathlons and it really helped. But then again once I came out and talked about it I started realising that everybody I know is going through this but they are hiding it.

“And I think it is ridiculous that you have to hide something like this.”

Bressie said that although he didn’t take medication, he had been considering it.

And even though he didn’t experience full on panic attacks he could never settle and relax.

He explained: “I went to the point where I was considering it but I figured I had to kind of manage it.

“ I didn’t get full on panic attacks – whereas I have friends who wouldn’t be able to breathe.

“I wouldn’t get that, I would just get palpitations.

“And I could never sit down and turn on the TV and watch it. I could never relax.

“People who would have known me before would realise that was not me at all.”

@backinatracksuit

[Bod95]

I often see him around town I’ll pass on the results of your investigation😉

[TheUlteriorMotive]

He was on Radio 1 yesterday. The podcast seems to be going after the Blindboy pscychology for the masses route.

[Massey]

Utter shite so.

[tazdedub]

@Massey

Utter shite so.

Anything involving Breslin is pure shite. Still there are gobshites out there that lap this shit up.

[Massey]

That buck with the bag on his head isn’t much better tbh

[Massey]

[Spidey]

That should double the primary school appearance fee.

[Massey]

It’ll send a few lads on here demented

[Tassotti]

Dr Breslin now has the qualifications.

[flattythehurdler]

Slightly ot, but I thought you had to have a PhD to be a doctor (a proper doctor)

[anon61878697]

Correct … Master Breslin only…

A masters in - mindfulness based interventions … what ever the fuck that is.

[flattythehurdler]

It is a sign that the world is fucked mate. He must have written that docket out himself. You can imagine the lads in the office
“how the fuck do you say that in Latin lads?”

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Self improvement is Master bating

[Juhniallio]

@flattythehurdler

It is a sign that the world is fucked mate. He must have written that docket out himself.

Flatty and the old boys club pulling the ladder up after themselves here.

[flattythehurdler]

Ah lovely

[farmerinthecity]

The term itself is a contradictory one never mind an actual masters being given in it.