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Preliminary Draft of the DSM-V Committee on Cyber Disorders

The Cyber Disorders section includes disorders that have a dependency upon cyber existence as the predominant feature. The section is divided into three parts. The first part describes e-mail episodes that serve as the building blocks for the disorder diagnoses. The second part describes the Cyber Disorders themselves. The criteria sets for most of the Cyber Disorders require the presence or absence of the e-mail episodes described in the first part of the section. The third part includes the specifiers that describe either the most recent e-mail episode, or the course of recurrent episodes.

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Tributes are being paid to nurses after practically the entire profession laughed its self to death following the publication of “Releasing time to care: The Productive Ward” released by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.

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Step 1: The Easy Introduction

You may want to join a well known new religious movement. By new religious movement I mean cult. Then you will be told what to think and how to argue very badly. You will also probably become very poor very rapidly.

There you go, you have nothing to lose but your mind itself the one step plan to becoming an antipsychiatrist.

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I saw this website linked from another blog, but I can’t remember what one, so I apologise for no acknowledgement.

I wanted to share it even further and decided to post the link here as well.

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb

Garfield is one of my favourite cartoon strips and I find this idea fascinating. It works so well, it’s often very moving.

Garfield Minus Garfield

This was going to be Mental Illness: Three: Alternative Interventions. The intended tone is closer to a Cynic’s Guide type post.

I notice in recent comments both Bloo and Zarathustra have foreshadowed what I intended. I intend to totally steal their ideas.

Intervention: Building A Therapeutic Relationship - One
Action: Ignoring Clients With Challenging Behaviour

“Just ignore him nurse, he is only banging his head off the wall to get attention”

All time classic this one. Generally used with ars people with a diagnosis of personality disorder, or just those who decide to be loudly unwell when it is time for a tea break. The theory is that time spent with nursing staff is such a wonderful experience that clients will do anything to repeat it. If they do something loud and messy (slash wrists, kick doors, take a tiny overdose) they will get time from staff. The untaught response to a client in distress, like this, is to ignore them. Otherwise they will just do it again when they want something. Ignoring them reduces the reward leading to a cessation of the disturbing behaviour. Fabulous lack of intervention. Very person centred and never ever leads to increasingly bad behaviour leading to an admission to IPCU or even more fun discharge ! If nothing else makes the nurses look like a bunch of … to the rest of the ward.

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I was reading the excellent site Remembering Old Asylums and Hospitals. As always it made me try to imagine what things were like back in the day. A fair chunk of this post will be about language and how it is used, I hope to have OSB wound up enough to make a high pitched shrieking noise, like an angry kettle. (For the younger readers kettles used to whistle when the water was boiling) If I am feeling brave I will post my ideas on a brand new nursing classification system for the people we work with.

A sneak peak at the ICD11 and DSMV.

We will start with something easy. Major and Minor Tranquilisers.

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The Psychiatric Hotline

Hello. Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline.

If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly.

If you are co-dependent, ask someone to press 2 for you.

If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6.

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I was recently asked how to set up a blog. In particular an anonymous work blog. I’ve decided to answer by discussing my experiences and attempt a guide, with links, that you will hopefully find useful.

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The Psychiatric Hotline

Hello. Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline.

If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly.

If you are co-dependent, ask someone to press 2 for you.

If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6.

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