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Holiday Rage

C, Fighting with the NHS, Mental Health Diagnoses, Psychotherapy, Random 10 Responses »

13 May2010

WARNING: RANT I am going on holiday this evening. Ergo, I will be (mostly) in absentia until at least 24 May. Unlike the preceeding hours before the last time I went on holiday, I am not in a good mood. I am, in fact, muderously livid. C is to blame (surprise surprise), even though it’s [...]

Pharmacetica Dramatica

Medications, Random 20 Responses »

29 Apr2010

Monday 19 April, 9pm Order prescription via the online EMIS system. Quetiapine (300mg) is due to run out by Wednesday, and even though I am seeing the psychiatrist on Wednesday, I don’t want to take chance that she will not modify the dose and that I will therefore be without the medication. Lose plot by [...]

Hilariously and Predictably Shite Response Letter from the Trust

C, Context, Everyday Life, Fighting with the NHS, Moods, Psychotherapy 38 Responses »

04 Mar2010

This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series The Mr Director-Person Letters

In response to this. See also this update. I have corrected a few minors errors in the author’s writing and have, as you will see, provided (italicised) annotated notes of the most rational and considered variety. *cough* — Dear Pandora Advocacy in Accessing Mental Health Services Thank you for your letter dated 17 December 2009 [...]

Another BBC Mental Illness Fail

Moods, Random Mental Health Related Philosophising 12 Responses »

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 [...]