If you think this blog is some kind of joke and are laughing at it after reading it then you could have -
P N C L D -
Post Non-Comedy Laughter Disorder.
It's quite common but not serious.
It is sometimes known to occur after attendance at Ruby "Must Have" Wax "In Her Fecking Ears" gigs.
The best cure is Bill Hicks and/or Richard Pryor.
[Ruby's new tour is rumoured to be called
"1 in 4 with Mental Illness?
Did you believe that nonsense?
I was only joking, you idiots!"
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"There are no "Mentally Ill People" -
there are only "Psychiatric Survivors"!
[Incidentally - "Mentally Ill" CAN BE a compulsory label -
"Psychiatric Survivor" is always a VOLUNTARY one].
Afterthought 08.10.17:
I must say that I very much like Ruby Wax and that she is indeed funny and a good comedienne and a great person. Even though I obviously disagree with her about the question of "mental health" etc.
I watched her "Who Do You Think You Are?" episode on BBC1 and I found it very moving.
Unfortunately, she didn't make the point that in the Holocaust many people who were labelled "mentally ill" were murdered by the Nazis. Earlier on in her family tree, she accepted unquestioningly that some of her relatives had "mental illness" and also accepted their treatment - which included long-term incarceration - as necessary and humane.
To some extent she had brought up the question of whether her parents had "caused" her "Mental Health Problems". When we found out what her parents had been through, we were very much willing to forgive them if this was the case. Forgiveness of those who perpetrated the Holocaust is a different matter. As is forgiveness of those who continue to enslave and abuse those labelled "mentally ill." I believe that forgiveness is possible in both cases.
I don't entirely discount the possibility that she may one day discover that she is effectively swallowing the propaganda of psychiatry in propagating the views that she does.
But as a spokesperson for and representative of people in a situation similar to my situation and that of millions of others, I think there could be worse people. She is empathetic and seems relatively open-minded.
She was on "Sunday Morning Live" this morning on BBC1 talking about "Mental Health" and I was disconcerted and a little amused to hear her affirm that doctors can and should learn to "spot" those who really have "Mental Health Problems", as opposed to those who simply have "the blues" for example.
Hopefully she will one day see the obvious - that the distinction between those with "mental health problems" and those without, is meaningless, arbitrary and non-existent.
P N C L D -
Post Non-Comedy Laughter Disorder.
It's quite common but not serious.
It is sometimes known to occur after attendance at Ruby "Must Have" Wax "In Her Fecking Ears" gigs.
The best cure is Bill Hicks and/or Richard Pryor.
[Ruby's new tour is rumoured to be called
"1 in 4 with Mental Illness?
Did you believe that nonsense?
I was only joking, you idiots!"
------------------------------------------------
"There are no "Mentally Ill People" -
there are only "Psychiatric Survivors"!
[Incidentally - "Mentally Ill" CAN BE a compulsory label -
"Psychiatric Survivor" is always a VOLUNTARY one].
Afterthought 08.10.17:
I must say that I very much like Ruby Wax and that she is indeed funny and a good comedienne and a great person. Even though I obviously disagree with her about the question of "mental health" etc.
I watched her "Who Do You Think You Are?" episode on BBC1 and I found it very moving.
Unfortunately, she didn't make the point that in the Holocaust many people who were labelled "mentally ill" were murdered by the Nazis. Earlier on in her family tree, she accepted unquestioningly that some of her relatives had "mental illness" and also accepted their treatment - which included long-term incarceration - as necessary and humane.
To some extent she had brought up the question of whether her parents had "caused" her "Mental Health Problems". When we found out what her parents had been through, we were very much willing to forgive them if this was the case. Forgiveness of those who perpetrated the Holocaust is a different matter. As is forgiveness of those who continue to enslave and abuse those labelled "mentally ill." I believe that forgiveness is possible in both cases.
I don't entirely discount the possibility that she may one day discover that she is effectively swallowing the propaganda of psychiatry in propagating the views that she does.
But as a spokesperson for and representative of people in a situation similar to my situation and that of millions of others, I think there could be worse people. She is empathetic and seems relatively open-minded.
She was on "Sunday Morning Live" this morning on BBC1 talking about "Mental Health" and I was disconcerted and a little amused to hear her affirm that doctors can and should learn to "spot" those who really have "Mental Health Problems", as opposed to those who simply have "the blues" for example.
Hopefully she will one day see the obvious - that the distinction between those with "mental health problems" and those without, is meaningless, arbitrary and non-existent.
