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Electric shock treatment. Incredibly barbaric. Do they still do it?
@tinks wrote:
@sceptical guy wrote:
chicken of the walk hah
the original is c o c k of the walk.
now why did that not survive the censors?
Tinks..yes.
yes?
yes..that’s what can happen. Suicide, murder, self-harm, harming others (badly).
When I first became a dad, one schizo latched on to our unhappy family as we walked the pram. He knew mum. I wanted rid of him, as we had enough to worry about, but he kept coming around, frightened of the monsters in his head. One day he knocked his dad out with one blow (he was a big man) and later that evening jumped to his death. What went on his head those last moments? I often thought about that (the bridge attendants said they always knew when a suicide was going to happen- they didn’t jump immediately, but walked to the bridge’s edge back and forth a few times. The bridge was too long to get to them, and they might take you over with them.
Mental illness takes many forms. Just as the cat for Louis Wain changes shape, and as people’s attitudes take funny shapes, so does humour. Humour is protean, it hasn’t learned to walk along a straight line.
None of us should shy away from discussing mental disability, in fact its good to talk
One in four of us will be affected by a mental health problem at some point in our lives.Often the fact that it’s difficult to talk about mental health problems can be one of the hardest parts of having a mental illness. It can lead to the loss of friendships, feeling isolated, not seeking help and slower recovery.
Talking about mental health can strengthen friendships, aid recovery, break down stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that affects us all.
None of us feel uneasy about calling Certain spotty because he has Chicken Pox( I bet he is very spotty by the way)
I know there are many forms and varying degrees of mental problems but refusing to chat about them is not helpful and only isolates people who might be feeling vulnerable
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Theres a few on here who would call me worse than that Mrs t :wink:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
I know there are many forms and varying degrees of mental problems but refusing to chat about them is not helpful and only isolates people who might be feeling vulnerable
I have no problem in discussing mental health problems, the better the understanding of conditions then hopefully the more empathy and compassion in the world. Humour at the expense of others is another matter.
@a certain sadness wrote:
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Theres a few on here who would call me worse than that Mrs t :wink:
Shush you!
Passes Certain the calamine. :D
@sceptical guy wrote:
@panda12 wrote:
Electric shock treatment. Incredibly barbaric. Do they still do it?
yes
My mother went through several doses of ECT in the 70s and 80s.
Her post mortem showed she was a walking time bomb as she had a large brain aneurism. It didn’t kill her but I often wondered if it was caused by ECT.
they now seem to recognise that ect is not a good way of handling mental illness(!!)
But it’s still used in certain limited cases, though they must have the consent of next-of-kin.
panda – bet you had a fun time too. Would be nice to say that these things make us all better people, wouldn’t it?
hugs are temporary only, “for like a gun is touch”
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