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How to manage your mental health | Leon Taylor | TEDxClapham
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so my mum and dad still refer to me to
this day is a bit of a pain in the
backside and probably from cabeza how
many parents have we got in here give me
a quick wave are loads of you ok what I
was a hyperactive child I drove my
parents up the wall with my endless
amounts of energy I wouldn't sleep I
needed constant attention and no matter
what my parents seemed to do
I wouldn't rest a few of you not doing
sorry about that my parents had no idea
what to do with me so they took me to
the family doctor to see if there's
anything that he could do now I'm not
sure what available labels there were
back then but the family doctor labeled
me as a problem child and he said to my
mum daddy he can't cope with Leon I can
always take him off you and sedate him
and that he proceeded to share with him
some other drug related interventions
that they might want to consider and for
whatever reason my mum and dad bulked at
this they decided that they would find
another way so they gave me away to
other people to look after mum and dad's
friends and family but that didn't work
because everyone got very busy and they
were left my mom and dad were left with
their problem child at the end of their
tether you know there's a picture of my
mum and dad on their wedding day they
look young healthy vital and there's a
picture of the three of us less than two
years later and they look at how they've
aged 25 years so my parents decided to
fight fire with fire
and they decided to attempt to tire me
out and that's where my life of activity
started way before I can even remember I
was swimming from day dot I went to
mother and baby gymnastics before I was
1 year old that turned into tumble tots
and I was taking part in any physical
activity that was going and every sport
that I was able to do at the age that I
was at and magical things started to
happen
I became easier to manage and I'm glad
my parents went down the physical
activity route because my dreams of
going to the Olympic Games started when
I was six years old I watched the
Olympic Games on the TV in nineteen
eighty-four and I told my dad then that
I wanted to go to the Olympic Games I
used to get the Guinness Book of World
Records at Christmas and I would write
down in my best handwriting my time next
to the world-record holder to see how
many minutes I needed to take off and
I'm glad my parents went down this route
because when I was 9 or just before I
was 9 I started diving and that was one
of the many sports that I tried but
actually within a short space of time it
was clear to me the diving was the sport
for me ultimately I followed my limpid
Reims in the sport diving competing at 3
Olympic Games and even winning an
Olympic medal in 2004 and none of that
would have been possible if my mum and
dad hasn't chosen physical movement as
my medicine so it's widely known the
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