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By zarathustra, on August 23rd, 2010
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.
Continue reading More Wrongness on the Internet
By zarathustra, on August 17th, 2010
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.
BPD’s don’t want to be “stigmatized.” Okay. Then how about treating others with the same respect and consideration for their rights and feelings that you demand from everyone else? If I treated my loved ones the way most Cluster B’s treat their nearest and dearest, I would be profoundly ashamed of myself and deserving of social censure and stigma. As for BPD’s insisting on having their rights protected—snort! That’s very rich considering that Borderlines/Narcissists/Histrionics/Sociopaths are the biggest offenders when it comes to violating the rights of others.
Oh dear.
Continue reading Red Alert! Wrongness on the Internet!
By zarathustra, on July 5th, 2010
This week Wikio launched it’s top 20 UK health blogs listing, and the blog listed as number one is….wow, it’s us!
I can see some of our chums listed in the top 20 as well, including Lake Cocytus, Pole to Polar, Aethelred, Bippidee, Militant Medical Nurse and others.
I must confess to being not [...]
By in-the-margins, on May 18th, 2010
[Guest post by Writing in the Margins of My Mind]
Hope I’m not interupting anyone’s tea break, but I hope you don’t mind a reader and regular part of TWIM dropping in to let you know about a new blog I’ve set up. It’s partly shameless self promotion, but it’s also very relevant to [...]
By torah, on April 25th, 2010
[Guest post by Torah]
Howdy all, since becoming offically mentally ill 3 years ago, I have discovered the wonderful world of bloggers. Incredible, selfless people who bare all across this medium of the internet. Sad stories, happy stories, recovery stories, neglect stories. Beautiful human beings who have suffered and still are suffering open their [...]
By zarathustra, on March 29th, 2010
Company magazine have their blogging issue this month, and among the blogs they’ve featured is….yep, it’s little old us.
They’re marking the occasion by hosting an online poll of the best of the blogs, where they describe us as “a group blog written by mental health nurses to keep your mind healthy.”
And as [...]
By Mental Nurse, on February 27th, 2010
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;
And what will happen in the morning when the world it gets so crowded that you can’t look out the
window in the morning?
Answers at the bottom please. Right now to the Blogs of Wrath! Ho!
Continue reading This Week In Mentalists (120): The Made With Extra Special Sauce Edition
By zarathustra, on January 25th, 2010
Following on from yesterday’s post about Nurses for Reform, today I did a little rant over on Liberal Conspiracy, specifically focusing on Dr Helen Evans’ deeply offensive insinuation that the NHS is founded on Nazi principles.
The Liberal Conspiracy post seems to have generated quite a bit of Twitter traffic. It’s been tweeted by [...]
By zarathustra, on January 12th, 2010
The editors of the Mind Blog wanted some cutting-edge, talented blogger from the field of mental health nursing write a monthly post for them, but they just got me instead. This month, I blogged about….well, blogging, since it seems rather topical what with the recent TWIM awards.
On the subject of blogging on blogs [...]
By zarathustra, on December 19th, 2009
At the end of last year I did a little awards post, recognising those mental health blogs that I’ve enjoyed in a year of compiling TWIM once a week. This time round, I think I’ll put it to a vote.
Please leave your nominations in the comments thread. The blogs with the most nominations [...]
By zarathustra, on December 10th, 2009
The mental health charity Mind have their own blog, and I’ve got a guest post on it, talking about the Derek Gale case and the need for regulation in psychotherapy.
Also on the Mind blog is a post about how lax standards by some psychotherapy organisations enabled one pet owner to register his pet [...]
By zarathustra, on June 26th, 2009
And yes, I have indeed been wanting to use that headline for ages.
The reason for the headline is to announced that I’ve got a guest post over on the Liberal Conspiracy website, reporting on the dangers of unregulated psychotherapists.
By zarathustra, on May 6th, 2009
No, that title is not confirmation of what OSB’s been suspecting for years. It’s to announce that I have a guest post over on the Liberal Conspiracy blog.
Go read.
By zarathustra, on April 9th, 2009
It’s with seething jealousy great pleasure that I hear that Seaneen aka Mentally Interesting: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive is having her blog output adapted into a radio play.
Dos and Don’ts for the Mentally Interesting is due to air on Radio 4 on Friday 8th May at 2.15pm. Seaneen’s blog makes regular appearances in This Week in Mentalists, and is one of my favourite mental health blogs.
I wonder, what would a radio play based on Mental Nurse look like?
Continue reading Radio, what’s new?
By zarathustra, on January 12th, 2009
I’m going to go briefly off-topic from mental health to discuss a separate (though in some ways related) topic: prostitution and other forms of sex work.
As you lot will know, I can’t resist a good blogfight, and I’ve been lurking on an absolute corker of a cyber-ruckus over at Liberal Conspiracy (See also: this comments thread). A bunch of radical feminists have a guy called Douglas Fox in their sights, and they really, really seem to despise him.
A sample comment:
Douglas Fox on the other hand has no credibility whatsoever in this discussion and I have no intention of doing anything other than dismissing his views out of hand.
So, what’s he done to incur the wrath of a pitchfork-wielding mob of rad fems?
Continue reading Who speaks for prostitutes?
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