Save One Life’s Halloween Benefit Dart Tournament

Save One Life’s Halloween Benefit tournament
Hosted by Save One life (Mike & Mindy Horton) and Squirrley's Bar

The tournament (2 Events: Mixed Triple and Doubles) is to benefit NAMI-GKC (National Alliance for Mental Illness-Greater Kansas City) In Honor of Adam Custin (Age 24) who took his life on Christmas 2015.

Mixed Triples ...and the winners are Ric Smith, Caeleigh Morton & James Hancock.

Men's Doubles First/Second: Casey L Molthan, James Hancock, Steven Schultz & Dennis Sprague.

Since this tournament is in October, So the benefit's subject matter works its way naturally into a condition known as SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder).

Just like the diminishing sunlight, so is the diminishing joy/feedback you get from doing things. Imagine you start out with a colorful imaginative plan, but as the days pass the rich colors of your imagination fade to grey. What was once animated and full of movement, becomes stagnate and cold. The things that stirred emotion have become no more than inanimate objects as well as you. So you lay in bed, what's the point of getting up? Even if you do get up, it's a real task to be the puppet master over the marionette that you became.

You might have had this condition your whole life. You go through the highs and lows of the seasons, but as you age the amplitudes get higher and lower. When the contrasts between highs and lows become great enough, ...some people ...can recognize the pattern, so you can prepare for the winter months. So what do you do? While I'm not an expert, but just my opinion, look for short term goals. You have to look no further than Facebook for one such mechanism. When you see the notification red bell you receive a shot of dopamine that triggers the reward and motivation response in the brain (Google: "Facebook notifications dopamine", and you will find all kinds of studies) In my opinion darts works the same way. I don't have any scientific proof, but I don't see how when you hit that bulls-eye, triple, or winning double, it doesn't trigger the reward motivation response. Plus as anybody will tell you about the darts community, it's really a darts family. Well it wouldn't surprise me, if someone with depression said, "Darts saved my life", they might be very well right.

If you or you, or know someone that doesn't recognize the pattern. The tournament sponsors can help.
Tournament Sponsor Hyperlinks:
Save 1 Life
Nami-GKC
Motley Cakes
Rockin Rents
Tri County Mental Health Services
Swope Health Services
Thrivent Financial