The Bedside Divide/How Things May Have Been Different

To calm my nerves about the fact that the replacement IB50 form has not yet arrived which means I may be money-less on the 4th, here are two pieces of writing about mental illness that I penned for elsewhere, but which were never published.   They were difficult to write, so don’t want them to be [...]

The Underclass

Look!  It’s the face of the underclass! Oh wait, no, I meant this: *Edit: for the purposes of this post, I’m going by what is portrayed by the media as an underclass, and not getting into the sociological ins-and-outs of it, since the former has more resonance with the public than the latter. The above [...]

“Open Up” conference from the perspective of the sociologically inclined non-mentalist

EDIT:  I bloody well missed it!  Happy (er?!) three year birthday to my blog! That’s ancient in blog terms.  Hark, I hear a man approaching with a shotgun… RUN! RUN! RUN AND GRAB ALL THE CAKE YOU CAN CARRY! EDIT EDIT:  I found the speech I made as part of the panel in my emails, [...]