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Guns and Crazies
The matter of the mentally ill is a bullet fired very close to home. The simple-minded think that marking us with our own special yellow stars solves the problem of Newtown.
Posted: January 13th, 2013 under Stigma, Suicide, Violence.
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Shopping at Moods-R-Us
This is a peeve I’ve had for a long time. I can understand the reasoning, but I don’t like the additional implications. Due to the media, folklore, and other cancers of popular culture, the phrase “mental patient” acquired some bad connotations. Some people didn’t want to be labeled with it because they had been wrongly [...]
Posted: June 11th, 2012 under Insurance, Stigma.
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The First Refuge of Scoundrels
“Madman” is right-wing political correctness for white male terrorist.
Posted: July 23rd, 2011 under Stigma, Terrorism, Violence.
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I’m Picking on Batman, Again
I’ve gotten in trouble for this before — taken to task not only in the comments section of this blog, but also on Twitter. But what needs to be said needs to be said. Batman is teaching people awful things about mental illness, things that are not true. Take The Joker for instance. How many [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2011 under Stigma.
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Bachmann’s Migraines: New swing on stigma
If John F. Kennedy could get us through the Cuban Missile Crisis with the threat of migraines hanging over him, this issue should be dead, cremated, shot into space, and buried in a black hole.
Posted: July 19th, 2011 under Accountability, Campaign 2012, Neurology, Stigma.
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Beyond Stigma Education: Life or Death Politics for the Bipolar
Stand up for your right to be human and to contribute to this society of ours.
Posted: July 5th, 2011 under Bipolar Disorder, Civic Responsibility, Class, Stigma, Taxes.
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Cruel Hacker Tricks: Bullying the Mentally Ill
We who live with mental illness periodically put up with this kind of dirty trickery. I have been subjected to it, but not on the level that Beckie is being made to experience.
Posted: May 30th, 2011 under Scoundrels, Stigma, Wild Wild Web.
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Notes on the 2011 DBSA National Conference Part 1
The first big secret divulged to me and a select group of others was that the rumor that Peter Ashenden had been fired by DBSA after embezzling most of its assets1 was not true.2 DBSA had worked itself into the red due to optimistic budgeting based on the assumption that the pharmaceuticals industry would continue [...]
Posted: May 25th, 2011 under Addictions, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, DBSA Confs, Stigma, Sugar and Fat, Travel - Conferences.
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The Scary Guy Defense
A friend of mine who is a mental health professional in Germany and I often watch a certain social media site for signs of distress among the denizens. Recently, I dropped her a note about one fellow who struck me as being on the proverbial roller coaster. She shuddered when she checked him out and [...]
Posted: April 25th, 2011 under Depression, Fear, Mania, Stigma.
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Rand, Anthem, and Genocide
Just what did Rand want to do with all the people who didn’t measure up to her “heroic” ideal?
Posted: April 15th, 2011 under Morals & Ethics, Reading, Scoundrels, Stigma.
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Poem of Lies
I have a hockey mask in my closet1 When I get mad, I murder. 2 Ups and downs are normal. 3 I am worthless, best ignored,4 and just like the rest of my ilk. 5 It’s all in my head, it’s all in my head. 6 Just wait it out and it will all go [...]
Posted: April 15th, 2011 under Bipolar Disorder, Poems, Stigma.
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Walking the Flat Track
Guilt is the mainstay of some of us who struggle with bipolar disorder. I saw my mind disintegrate during the nineties.
Posted: April 3rd, 2011 under Mania, Morals & Ethics, Stigma.
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