Ruby Wax on Mental Illness
You can find a whole lot of stuff on Tumblr, of all sorts. I rather liked this photoset of Ruby Wax: She highlights a good point: in psychiatric illness you don’t have broken limbs, or coughed-up...
View ArticleIt’s a Madhouse
So, the care of people with schizophrenia in Britain is in the news. Sadly, there’s not much (if anything) different anywhere else I’ve worked or read about. People with schizophrenia often get no, or...
View ArticleViolence, Mental Illness, Assumptions, and Stigma
In the wake of the horrifying shooting at the Sandy Hook primary school in Conneticut there has, of course, been a lot of talk about “mental illness”. This man did something that to all of us seems...
View ArticleHearts and Minds
Now this is very interesting. Young people with a close family history of depression but no depression themselves showing elevated risk factors for cardiovascular disease (hypertension, stiffened...
View ArticleBad Writing in DSM 5
I’m really not becoming any more of a fan of DSM 5 Related Posts:Writing is hardPurpose, Created?Extreme Prior ProbabilitiesWeeds that TumbleOde to a Fountain PenPowered by Contextual Related Posts
View ArticleNot-Medicine and Me
I was thinking today. Dangerous thing to do, I know, but that’s me: living on the edge. Anyway… I was thinking about this article which describes how thoroughly Linus Pauling jumped the shark in his...
View ArticleStarry Starry Night
I would write something (witty, pithy, and snarky – all at once, even) pointing out the problems with Giles Fraser’s piece of tripe in the Guardian about depression and antidepressants … But I’m not...
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