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One-in-three people suffer paranoia induced by researchers with clipboards on subway


                From our Placebo Psychiatry Correspondent DrKen Placebo   As  my mentor, Dr Stanley Unwin said: ooH!  Frabjous, frabjous Joy! Enfoldiwold manifestunfoldywoldy. Article published in Brexit Journal of Pigeon Pokers:  BJP Article Telegraph: … Continue reading

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Finding Fanon


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James Joyce, language and stream of consciousness


Iconoclast, rebel, exile, explorer. Here’s a  great introduction to James Joyce from School of life Joyce was born in Dublin a city he both loved and loathed and which became “the universal city in my work” – and even the … Continue reading

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The voice you hear when you read silently – Thomas Lux


The Voice You hear When You Read Silently is not silent, it is a speaking- out-loud voice in your head; it is *spoken*, a voice is *saying* it as you read.  It’s the writer’s words, of course, in a literary … Continue reading

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Those fighting to be included…


Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not being divisive.
Those fighting to keep those people out,
are.
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Putting out fire with gasoline – David Bowie


I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline
Putting out fire
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Trauma is not the thing that happened…


Trauma is not the thing that happened but, in fact, the effect left within us by our experiences
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Trauma means Wound


Trauma means “wound”.
That’s it, no shit. Continue reading

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A person given a diagnosis of “psychosis” is 15 times more likely to …


Wonder how the “voice inside your head”  finished off that sentence… Some straight talking… Here’s some data: A person who has been given a diagnosis of psychosis is three times more likely to have been abused as a child than … Continue reading

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Beware of the flowers…


Beware of the flowers
‘Cause I’m sure they’re gonna get you…Yeah! Continue reading

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