Mental Health

[Diane CBPFC]

Please don't use this thread as an excuse to pick on Mince - you guys already have many threads on which to do that.

I was just talking on the phone to a lady from my library group - turns out she is a "multiple" - apparently there are several adults living within her and one child that she buys presents for to keep the child occupied. SHe has the adults trained to 'act like her' in public but the child needs crafty things to do.

This got me wondering how everyone's mental health is. I will start:

I dress up dogs in wooly jumpers.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I dress up dogs in wooly jumpers.

WOH! That's a thread-killer!

[The Peepmaster]

I think it's a bit much, that someone who knits wooly jumpers for dogs, should automatically assume that we menfolk are going to have a dig at Mince just because the thread's about mental health issues. I'm almost offended. I'm sure Tarquin will be too when he reflects on it.




Anyway, we're giving squid-brain a rest at the moment as he's been a little reticent in posting.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Yeah - what Peepsie said.

Diane, I'm gob-smacked. Surely these should be acrylic jumpers?

[Vulture]

Please don't use this thread as an excuse to pick on Mince - you guys already have many threads on which to do that.

I was just talking on the phone to a lady from my library group - turns out she is a "multiple" - apparently there are several adults living within her and one child that she buys presents for to keep the child occupied. SHe has the adults trained to 'act like her' in public but the child needs crafty things to do.

This got me wondering how everyone's mental health is. I will start:

I dress up dogs in wooly jumpers.

I read the posts on this b***dy board AND sometimes contribute to it!!!!!!!!

[Diane CBPFC]

So far we're all looking pretty good...I think.

[Malc]

I have qualifications in mental health, and people with so-called "multiples" (multiple personalities) or Disassociative Identity Disorder seem to acquire this condition (it's not congenital) allegedly as a result of huge trauma experienced at a young age.

There are respected medical people in mental health who don't believe in D.I.D. or Multiple Personality Disorder, they believe it is a learned behaviour, and that the sufferers can be weaned off the urge to imagine other personalities within themselves.

[Roger Kettle]

Peeps, you were right to remove my email address from that earlier post!

[Zesty White]

I have to confess that my only understanding of such disorders comes from the film 'Identity' starring John Cusack and Ray Liotta.

As for Diane's question, I have taken part in interviews with Chick Young, Michael Parkinson, Barry Norman, the people from the Nobel Prize committee etc in my head, but other than that, I think I'm quite sane.

[The Peepmaster]

People used to think I was a bit mad because I liked sausages. Eventually one bloke suggested that liking sausages wasn't really grounds for being considered mad, so I took him home to have a look at my collection.

[Roger Kettle]

It was pancakes when I heard that joke.

[Mince]

Jokes tend to evolve over the centuries.

[Fyodor]

It was pancakes when I heard that joke.

I'll see your pancake and raise you a pig's ear.

[peter]

what for a sow purse

[Malc]

Mickey Mouse is in the act of divorcing his wife Minnie in court.  Minnie's solicitor appeals to the magistrate:
"Your honour, having a ditzy personality is not grounds for divorce, surely?"

Mickey says "I didn't say she was ditzy, I said she was fucking Goofy"