By Mr Ian, on May 31st, 2009
Good evening. Here is the news.
Irish Mental Health service is shit.
People with Mental Health problems are winding up in prison.
The age of your dad when he shagged your mum may increase your risk of schizophrenia.
Dr Jack Drescher is a radical gay
and of course, a summary of the Cup Final – Traditional Healing vs [...]
By Mr Ian, on May 17th, 2009
This edition of FKWIDT brings together a whole heap of stuff from other online places which I link to that are mostly stupid and I get to play at being a Sarcastic Git making stupider comments.
So what’s new?
By Mr Ian, on May 3rd, 2009
After a brief undercover operation – GMNRU returns with breaking news on:
The cause of Mental Illness
By Mr Ian, on May 1st, 2009
A question from Richie over at Doc Crippen’s on who is best to drive MH care:
I guess my question is, do you think the nurses could do it better? Or would it be hard to actually do it any worse? Do you think that _all_ mental illness is amenable to psychological manipulation (even [...]
By Mr Ian, on April 4th, 2009
It’s not a euphamism. I mean it quite literally.
Blind people have had them for years. Now deaf people have hearing dogs. But what use can a dog be to a person with a mental illness?
According to the limited information – and Wiki – quite a lot.
A psychiatric service dog is a specific type [...]
By Mr Ian, on March 28th, 2009
Before I begin – beakie started it.
I was replying in the comments thread and, as per usual, it became verbose and convoluted. So I’m setting up camp here for the counter-argument.
Is CBT (or any psychological or social therapy, like the Hoffman Process) Boswellox? Does it have any credibility?
I suggest it does. And I [...]
By Mr Ian, on March 27th, 2009
This edition of GMNRU is sad to announce that:
Lilly settles Zyprexa Lawsuit for $1.42 billion
Ha ha ha.
By Mr Ian, on March 21st, 2009
beakie raised discussion here about the obligations under Human Rights to patients detained under MHA laws. And I know I’ve written about it before here somewhere. But I recently had the pleasure of being (re-)trained in Risk Assessment & Management as part of the MH department mandatory training so I’m going to write [...]
By Mr Ian, on March 20th, 2009
For those who didn’t read my top post (Socrates, 2009) on AMHP, this is another one like that for you to not read.
Those who did read the previous post may recall the extra and unnecessary hoops the not so local medics made me jump through to get my statutory authorised admission for assessment [...]
By Mr Ian, on March 14th, 2009
It’s been a busy week for Mr Ian – topped off with a heavy Friday night session punctuated by literally falling out of the pub and onto the pavement.
This edition is therefore dedicated to my sore knee.
By Mr Ian, on March 10th, 2009
More news recently on the stockpiling of ammunition.
However, authorities were quick to deal with this perpetrator and have sent in Inspectors and removed the offending articles that they found.
Why am I posting this on MN?
Because the perpetrator was a chimp.
(Which makes things no clearer really)
By Mr Ian, on March 8th, 2009
A good friend of ours wrote a piece not long back about “you get what you pay for” when it comes to dealing with the mentally ill.
Unfortunately, he is an idiot. You certainly don’t get what you pay for when it comes to medical staff dealing with psychiatry.
He claims:
It is no longer possible [...]
By Mr Ian, on March 1st, 2009
With the new MHA(UK) provisions; if anyone is wondering what it might be like to be an “AMHP”… I’ve had a small taste. Over here I’m able to get an AMHP just by writing to the Director of Mental Health and asking.
Of course there’s a few questions to answer which I managed to [...]
By Mr Ian, on February 28th, 2009
In keeping with Z’s naughty numbered Mentalists round up – welcome to the Boobs Edition of GMNRU
This edition brings the latest from the GMNRU fun bags designed to keep you abreast with titillations of Mentalists all around the nipples.
I mean.. world.
Sorry.
By Mr Ian, on February 21st, 2009
A person moves to a local small community. One of the community team knows him from previous admissions to hospital in another region following “bizarre behaviour” in public.
The man is known to have a diagnosis of “Schizophrenia”. Anecdotal reports suggest that the person can become extremely unwell within a month if not taking [...]
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