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One of my current musical loves is Laura Marling. Her first album has got a track entitled, ‘My Manic and I’, describing a love affair with a man with bipolar disorder. This got me thinking. What are the best and worst portrayals of mental illness in music? A couple of nominations from me to get the ball rolling. Hello! LittleFeet from Chaos and Control (*ahem* shameless plug) here. My thanks go to Z for inviting me to round up This Week in Mentalists. Of late I’ve been feeling a little down in the dumps. I know it sounds silly but making a commitment to undertake TWIM has given me something positive to focus on. As a long-term lurker on Mental Nurse I’m feeling incredibly privileged to be doing the round up this week. Without further ado, let’s start the ball rolling… We’ve been unequivocal in condemning the blog of Dr Tara J Palmatier. She and her supporters seem keen to attack anyone who has a borderline personality disorder, accusing them of being all abusers and manipulators, regardless of whether they’ve actually abused or manipulated anyone. Some of the dialogue from Dr Tara and co has been, frankly, hilarious. We’ve seen talk of “thermonuclear hypocrisy by proxy”. We’ve learned that “Cluster Bs brain wiring is that of sociopaths. The empathy area is simply not connected.” Oh, and Mental Nurse has been declared the “primary enabler” of the evil borderliners. Since Dr Tara seems to have a particular loathing for “what I call Borderline art”, I suspect she’ll be disgusted by the artwork that’s suddenly sprung up across Facebook, having been created by various members of the Madosphere. We therefore post them here only so that we can all share in Dr T’s digust. Such “Borderline art” is of course in no way big or clever. Never mind Bella or Heat. We like One in Four Magazine, with their combination of good writing, passionate mental health advocacy and a near-total absence of Peter Andre. I was worried earlier this year to find out they were in danger of closing. Their latest press release brings much more cheerful news. Thanks to [...] Last week I posted about the spectacularly venomous blog of psychologist Tara J Palmatier. Her blog unleashed a torrent of bile on anybody who happens to have a diagnosis of a Cluster B personality disorder. This clinician’s warmth and empathy was on display in such charming quotes as, “Giving Cluster B individuals and their ilk the protective cloak of “mental illness” provides them with a “get out of jail free card” and allays our existential dilemma on the concept of evil.” and “Pardon my language, but I think the terms crazy asshole, mean jerk, toxic person or bad person are better than diagnostic labels.” Dr Palmatier’s blog post has been greeted with such unanimous praise and agreement from the Madosphere that Dr T has suddenly changed it from being public to password-protected. [Edited to add: Google Cache] But not before such bloggers as Magicplum and Pandora from Confessions of a Serial Insomniac attempted to debate the issue with Dr T and her blog commenters. Magicplum and Pandora pointed out that, despite having borderline personality disorder (a Cluster B diagnosis), they had abused nobody, and that this is true of many, many individuals with personality disorders. They were rewarded with yet more venom for their efforts. Dr Tara’s post may have disappeared behind a password, but thanks to a social encounter in a London park, I can now reveal some of the hate-fuelled garbage her and her fans have been spouting. Apologies for the fact that TWIM is a day late. I forgot to allocate somebody to do it in time. And as for doing it myself…well, I was at a Place doing a Thing. What sort of thing? I was stuck in a car recently with someone who was recently interviewed by CID. From what he described it sound all Bodie and Doyle. Apparently he did this for money. He was a suspect for hire. He said to me.
Such is the life of excitement I lead. It is something I used to hear quite a lot. I do not really know why. In all honesty if I had a job where I had to deal with average members of the public I am not sure how I would resist the urge to leap at them and … do something horrible. People that work customer service, I salute you! Sometimes I think this cartoon describes 90% of my online activity.
Of course, Lola Snow knows this, which is why she sent me this blog post, by a clinical psychologist, Dr Tara J Palmatier. Dr Palmatier is discussing the Cluster B personality disorders – borderline, narcissistic, histrionic and antisocial. Her take on the subject is…shall we say…a little judgemental.
Oh dear. Hi, Kankurette here. I’m feeling a bit drained due to not having any rest today, so sorry if things are a bit brief, but I was asked to do TWIM this week, so: here you go. Due to being a Pie of Ass, I’m going to include a few Aspergers blogs. Apologies for the probable slide in quality this week; am having an unexpectedly busy weekend and have had to squeeze a TWIM in. I probably should have dodged it, to be honest, but I wanted an excuse to use my shiny new laptop as something other than an expensive – if pretty – ornament. So, onwards. Back in the 1970s the term Indigo Children was invented – a new race of super-talented kids with psychic powers who were being born among us to bring about the Age of Aquarius. Some cynics suggested that those kids identified as indigo in fact had ADHD, Autistic Spectrum Disorder…or in some cases just had the worst kind of deluded parent. But what happens to indigo children when they grow up? Here’s a possibility. They may become vampires. I’ve been reading on Vampirewebsite.Net about “real vampires”. Helpfully, they point out that certain illnesses, such as psychotic depression and chronic fatigue syndrome, can mimic the symptoms of being a vampire. Well, it’s always important to be aware of differential diagnoses. So, to ensure that we don’t misdiagnose a vampire as having psychotic depression, let’s find out what a “real vampire” would look like. [warning: overdose triggers] In the past couple of days two different articles have appeared on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website, both critiquing the proposed 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. DSM-5 to its mates. If you haven’t come across it, this is the manual produced by the American Psychiatric Association, giving a shopping catalogue of psychiatric diagnoses. One of them may be yours to keep. Of the two critiques, one is written by a clinical psychologist, Dorothy Rowe. The other by a Lacanian psychoanalyst, Darian Leader. Both make reasonable points about the various difficulties of defining mental illness. Both then go on to say more about their own ideological biases than they do about psychiatry. From Militant Medical Nurse. Dear Mental Nurses, Doctors…anyone really Why are GP’s sending self harmers and anorexics who steadfastly refuse ALL TREATMENT as direct admissions onto medical wards? Go read her post. Go on. I have no idea why this is happening. I have not heard of this kind of thing happening in [...] A slightly delayed TWIM, which I’ve typed up while having my Sunday lie-in. Enjoy. We’ve done lecturers and student nurses, but there’s a third player in the education of nurses. Drawing on my own memories of studentdom as well as conversations with current student nurses, here’s a look at those nurse mentors who richly deserve the title of slaphead. |
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