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Another BBC Mental Illness Fail

02 Mar2010

Last year, the Beeb produced an appalling episode of its long-running Panorama show on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, strongly inferring that the only people who would genuinely be afflicted with the disorder were soldiers traumatised by battle. As the title of the documentary – The Trauma Industry – suggested, the central tenet of the program was [...]

Article of the Week: Week Four

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27 Jan2010

There were a number of interesting psychiatric / psychological articles upon which I happened this week, but only one really stood out, probably simply because I have a strong interest in the subject matter. The article comes from Psychiatric Times (PT) and discusses the phenomenon of stalking. The comprehensive article discusses a range of factors [...]

About the Author

WARNING: THIS BLOG CONTAINS SOME DISTURBING, POTENTIALLY TRIGGERING, MATERIAL AND VERY STRONG LANGUAGE.

Pandora

Your humble narrator is a female in her late 20s from Northern Ireland, attempting to find her way through the labyrinth that is NHS mental health services. Her diagnoses are a convoluted mishmash of:

borderline personality disorder
complex post-traumatic stress disorder
bipolar II disorder
major clinical depression
social anxiety and
transient psychosis and dissociation.

Through intense psychotherapy, she is attempting to recover from child sex abuse, as well as issues of abandonment, betrayal and self-harm.

Much more information can be found on the 'About' page. See below for the archives if you want the full context and detailed story since May 2009.

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I'm in the Republic for Iron Maiden gig, woo. Already intermittent contact may be even more so as I search for wifi. Have a good weekend x
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RT @BeyondMeds: RT @hyblis I have always found the rampant promotion of CBT to be a kind of cynical marketing exercise...
Just had the fun of sitting through what was inevitably going to be a difficult session whilst in the throes of an IBS attack. FML.