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Ignor­ance rears it’s ugly head once again!

Janet Street Porter

A bad day for pro­gress on chan­ging atti­tudes to men­tal illness!

Time to Change!

Its ignor­ance and mis­un­der­stand­ing as shown in the press by Sam Leith (Lon­don Even­ing Std)and Janet Street Porter (Mail)

as can be wit­nessed in their recent art­icles for their respect­ive papers; they prob­ably felt very clever when writ­ing them.

This kind of incon­sid­er­ate tripe reminds us all how far we have to go to change atti­tudes towards men­tal illness.

I hope they, their fam­ily and friends never face ser­i­ous men­tal illness. God help them as they won’t receive any sym­pathy from the afore­men­tioned correspondents.

And as for their con­duct as journ­al­ists report­ing the facts! and their right to so called free­dom of speech does not excuse them from com­mit­ting breaches under the Dis­ab­il­ity Dis­crim­in­a­tion Act, nor does it con­done their actions of per­petu­at­ing sick­en­ing big­oted points of view and ser­i­ous lack of sens­it­iv­ity to those most vul­ner­able in our soci­ety rich or poor!

Did Janet con­sider the recent sui­cide involving Alex­an­der McQueen should he have got a grip of him­self when his depres­sion took over Janet! by the way he was not someone who could have been called short of a bob or two and as Janet would put it shouldn’t have had cause to resort to sui­cide as depres­sion is only for the weak and poor alone.

And as for Janet’s ref­er­ence to back ache reduc­tions being as a res­ult of this being out of fash­ion for ill­nesses, and that reduc­tions in this cause of ill­ness can’t be related to improve­ments in chair design, includ­ing car seat designs and improve­ments in lift­ing tech­niques as a res­ult of H&S rules etc! you stu­pid B***h which planet have you been on, of course there’s been major improve­ments in this area, includ­ing changes to product design in weight and pack­aging to reduce occur­rence of back injur­ies! she needs to get out in the real world and under­stand what’s she’s talk­ing about before commenting.

I have spent 30 years in the con­struc­tion industry and can con­firm the improve­ments made in regards reduc­tion in back injur­ies etc in that sec­tor alone.

In fact it’s people like Janet who nor­mally spout out about being overly restric­ted and cau­tious as a res­ult of  too much H&S rules and reg­u­la­tions, they can’t have it both ways just to suit their own per­sonal ravings.

JSP needs a slap! & Sam a kick up the arse!

Yours truly madly, and now p***ed off too!

TBPBMD

see my page with the Time to Change, along with Mind and Rethink let­ter to the editor of the Mail regard­ing the above art­icle by “Janet Street Porter” and my let­ter to the Editor also.

Char­it­ies let­ter to editor of Mail… JSP art­icle Depres­sion? it’s just the new trendy illness!

Well done Alistair Camp­bell for his art­icle in the Mir­ror “The real­ity of Depres­sion”, writ­ten by him to respond to the poorly judged and  dam­aging art­icle by “Janet Street Porter’s” in the Mail regard­ing depres­sion being a trendy illness.

Yours truly madly

TBPBMD