My turn to delve into the delights of world of blogs. As part of my continuing attempt to be awesomely Cool for Cats ™ I intend to make little Tweet like comments describing the minutiae of my life as I compile That Was The Week That Was This Week In Mentalists. (TWTWTWTWIM).
I am listening to Hazey Jane II by Nick Drake.
This song contains the lyrics;
window in the morning?
Answers at the bottom please. Right now to the Blogs of Wrath! Ho!
Because cellar_door will not blow her own trumpet over here please can everyone go round and congratulate her on happy dance inducing event.
To help drive more traffic people to Mo’s site I hereby link to his latest rambling post with most excellent (cool eh?) accompanying images.
Aethelreadtheunread talks about The Sex Thing. I dream of the day I look in the ICD-10 and find blapping or even teabagging listed as a symptom of something. Not for any serious reasons, just for the giggles.
So far we have covered exams, wallowing in bed like a hippo and sex. Good start.
I am now listening to Other Side of the World by KT Tunstall. Because I can.
Astrid takes a look at some of the changes in the DSM-V. Looking at Possibly Unwanted Implications of the Pathologization of Sex Crimes.
Bluesilk gives us Da Rules of Depression!!
Now I am pratting about on my seat shouting Woo Hoo!
Crashing into the mental system shares her experiences of DBT. Something I know effectively nothing about; though as my current student pointed out today Nursing is something I effectively know nothing about. I hate how he said it after I completed his book.
When I initially read it I fixed the minor spelling mistake. Then I thought the phrase ‘I did bear my soul‘ sounded a little like a phrase from a Nick Drake song. This has now left me contemplative. Time for a change on the mp3 player.
Have just discovered I have not put my Leonard Cohen on my mp3 player. Lotus Eaters it is.
Eccedentesiast has problems with sanity verification.
All of us here at Mental Nurse really hope the Nutter alarm does not go off before August.
Or after August for that matter.
Or during …
Fighting Monsters shares some problems with client choice.
Go read this at Lake Cocytus.
That was the only line I read. But I liked it. I liked it a lot.
Hlaf way through my list of blogs to read I am off to bed. Am listening to Cowtown by They Might be Giants.
Hlaf?
I am now sitting here the next morning in my jammie listening to the central heating shake itself apart.
Jessa has a yellow tendril. Her Yellow Tendril has built a protective shell.
Lola is taking a break from the Internet for a while. All of us here at Mental Nurse wish her well a lokk forward to her return.
Prozacville gave use this. Which has quite cheered me this morning.
Reynolds has dealings with a man with knives.
This time he’d called 999 and told the calltaker that he had cut both of his wrists and as it involved a knife the police were sent with us again.
We arrived to find the front door open and on entering found our patient sitting on a sofa, smoking a spliff and with remarkably unscathed wrists. No telltale scars from deliberate self harm in the past either.
A knife was sitting on the table next to him so I moved it to another table further away…
…Which had another two knives on it.
And there were knives in the bookcase.
Right. I am done. Time to let this baby fly free.
Oh.
Wild card.
80 Extreme Advertisements That Will Challenge Your Mind
Nasty.
Happy reading.
Oooh you have great taste in music. Especially They Might Be Giants.
The baby Pinhead reminds me of Toy Story. There’s a character in it (a doll) who looks like that in the “evil” boy’s toybox. Still, not sure what the designer of that ad was thinking.
Thank you for blowing my trumpet Mental
Um.
Nice roundup!
Great roundup Mental. It’s a bit early in the day for those adverts.
Also, you get students? What’s the world coming to?!
Thanks for this, there was a lot that was really relating to what is going on for me at the moment.
Loved your round up Mental. It made me laugh, which is hard to do when I have only had 3 hours sleep. My favourite bit was ‘That was the only line I read. But I liked it. I liked it a lot.’
The only line you read?! Wasted on you, my words are, wasted on you – if it wasn’t a post of faff and nonsense, wrapped around a video that’s just so cool, I’d be cut to the quick
An interesting round up, thank you for taking the time out to do this!
Thanks to the video, Shrink, I’ve discovered a band I’d never heard of before (Elbow, whose song Grounds For Divorce, is the soundtrack). The first line is “I’ve been working on a cocktail called grounds for divorce..”.
‘And what will happen in the morning when the world gets so crowed that you can’t look out of the window in the morning?’
Legalize assisted suicide by consent form, to help tortured souls like Nick Drake, on their way!
There was an assisted suicide on Holby City this week. Thandie, the Ugandan doctor, gave her dying-of-AIDS brother a morphine OD at his request. The script writers are taking the easy way out by having her resign and go back to Uganda right away so there will be no court case in the series I’d imagine.
btw you do know Nick Drake killed himself with an antidepressant OD in his late 20s? That’s why there were only 3 albums.
That’s a difficult thing to do.
It was one of the old-style, toxic ones (tricyclics). Lord knows, he probably tried more than once, but that would all have been shrouded in secrecy back then.
Sometimes I find songs like “Fruit Tree” very hard to listen to, despite being works of total genius, because I know when he said “it can only flourish when its stalk is in the ground”, he really meant it.
Check him out on youtube btw. He was amazing.
i’ll do that. i can’t handle bleakness at the moment yet at other times i embrace it i swing so far and so dramatically.
My hubby is a great fan of Nick Drake and has got all of his albums including ‘Pink Moon’ which I believe is quite difficult to get hold of now. I can listen to him occasionally, I’m afraid that my tolerance level of music representing the painful existentialism which is life, goes about as far as Len Cohen’s dirges, but even he has lightened-up.
The comment in my original post was meant to be irony btw, the absence of people like Nick Drake and many other talented artists and writers, who have taken their own lives, have left the world a lesser place.
ah ok!
Cohen is my fav artist ever. I don’t find him depressing, I find him cathartic. He doesn’t really sing about depression, but about lost love, I find. He was WONDERFUL on his tour in 2008. I went to see him twice….
btw, whenever I think of Leonard Cohen, I remember the scene in The Naked Gun in the bar “The Blue Note” where everyone is sitting alone and the waitress is selling cyanide pills, razor blades and rope
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He is a true poet. He is included in the Norton Anthology of Poetry. I listen to him and feel my heart is about to crack open.
The usual suspects…v good
Thanks for the mention, it’s not just my spelling it’s my typing too. Will have to try to remember to proof read in future.
You have talent. People said that to me once but they were lying
i woant ot die
Can I give you a big hug? You sound like you need one. ((()))
Joins in on the hugs (((Louise))
xx
Wonderful stuff as always Mental Nurse.
I’m actually trying to work out a way of uninstalling aforementioned Nutter Alarm. That or completely and utterly kicking the eff out of it so it can’t even squeak.
Can I just stop everyone for a moment.. You are all amazing.
Thanks for including me Mr Nurse, a jolly good round up. I am a bit afraid of the wildcard though, but then I scare easy.
Lola x
*getting a little bit giddy* I’ve just logged into my blog after a spate of comments mysteriously appeared. I find that The Referrer is MN. Thank you v’ey much for including me
I’m sure it’s extra specially saucy of me but I wish to blag on this blog that it was my birthday yesterday. Good haul of cards, prezzies (including a Steiff Rupert, ahh), txts, emails, etc. Not like Eeyore. Thought you’d like to know.
Happy birthday! I’ve just had some Tunnock’s Tea Cakes in your honour.
Thanks, DeeDee! Still have my cinema/theatre/opera treat to come. Mrs Michael likes me to read the funnier of the books I’ve been given to her. Two old codgers, Darby & Joan, etc.
What are you going to go and see at the theatre?
Probably whatever’s on at the Theatre Royal, Bath, together with a school chum and his wife, who live in Winchester. Bristol Old Vic has had financial problems, Bristol Hippodrome has no bleedin’ leg room! There’s the excellent Tobacco Factory, Bristol (used to be what its name implies), and the really comfortable Wales Millenium Centre in Cardiff, where the Welsh National Opera lurks. I’ll let you know.
Isn’t Hedda Gabler playing Bath prior to going into the West End? I have heard good things about the Tobacco Factory. There seems to be something about ex-factories producing good theatre – the Menier Chocolate Factory in London is excellent. Uncomfortable seats, but excellent productions.
That’s a very good idea – thanks! There will soon be an enormous chocolate factory (ex-Cadbury, previously ex-Fry) vacant half way between Bristol and Bath vacant soon, due to to the duplicity of asset-stripping Kraft.
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