The Scottish election- a mentalists view
Following the disastrous results for Scottish Labour after Thursdays elections, a number of Labour bloggers have been giving their thoughts on what went wrong and what we should do next. Being not only...
View ArticleRambling musings of an apparently recovering mentalist…
I realised this week, whilst relaying my week to a friend, via email, that I have been “out of bed, dressed and functioning every day”. So again, I must be “getting better”. Now I’ve been here before...
View ArticleMental For Five Minutes
This has been swirling around in my head for years, so far I’ve kept it to rants on twitter in 140 characters or fewer but it deserves more words. Today’s twitter rant actually leapt over the line from...
View ArticleInequaliTy
Today is bipolar awareness day, happy bipolar awareness day, may your day be filled with stability or shoe-purchasing, hilarious mania. I observed the day last year, when I was still officially the...
View ArticleA Thoroughly Modern Multiple (Part 1)
My head is brimming with blog posts; I think it’s a testament to improved internal communication that our writer in residence is being inundated with ideas and requests. It’s also wonderful to know...
View ArticleOh I’m Sorry, Did We Take That Too Far?
Last night the world, or at least my tiny view of it from behind the laptop screen was talking about the 4 Goes Mad season, specifically Ruby Wax’s Mad Confessions- hosted by the self-dubbed “poster...
View ArticleScottish Government, See Me After
The new Mental Health Strategy For Scotland 2012-2015 has been published, you can find the full text here. I didn’t take part in the consultation process, I wanted to- my copy of the consultation...
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