How Mad Are You?
November 11, 2008 at 11:20 pm | In Eating disorders, Media Hype, Moodiness | 15 CommentsTags: anorexia, binge, binging, body mass index, bulimia, depression, Eating disorders, purging, recovery, therapy
Obviously I am either
a) Too stupid to understand the appeal of documentaries.
b) Too heavily medicated to pay attention to documentaries.
c) Too depressed to care
d) Lack adequate interest in beards to fully appreciate this documentary
e) A combination of the above
I watched up to the bit with lots of cow shit flying about, but after the initial diagnoses I lost interest.
Did anyone die?
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I watched about the first minute and then couldn’t stand any more
Comment by Chouette — November 11, 2008 #
Thank god for that! I thought I was going to be the only one, and end up looking like a muppet! well more like a muppet!
Comment by Lola Snow — November 11, 2008 #
I managed the whole thing, between cooking veggie chilli, washing up and giving my ignorant housemate a lecture because he found it HUMOROUS. He has no right. He’s not mentally interesting, therefore not entitled to be anything but solemnly considerately understanding to the plights of those individuals.
It’s a 2-part piece, and we only found out one diagnosis, and that one of the other participants/contestants/guinea pigs is definately slighty barking. Therefore, the second part should be MUCH MORE INTERESTING, and full of SHOCKS. After all, whoever though that, God forbid, people with a mental illness aren’t legally required to wear a t-shirt declaring this, nor do they necessarily smell strongly of cat wee*???
GG
*Interestingly, I worked as a Veterinary Assistant/Receptionist before my brain went AWOL, and therefore smelled of cat wee much more often during the period that I was considered “sane”.
Comment by Gutter Girl — November 12, 2008 #
I see I don’t have to do further research into the correlation between feline urine and mental illness then?
Good to know. I’ll get back to polishing my collection of Mongolian can-openers with a hairbrush…
tra la la la la laaaaaaaa
**waltzes off smelling unlike cats p*ss***
Comment by Lola Snow — November 12, 2008 #
watched it, hated it! lets all play spot the mental person! sodding great job the BBC are doing promoting awareness – oh he doesn’t like getting covered in cow shit – MENTAL! oh she can’t speak in front of a room full of people – MENTAL! oh he’s a bit chatty – MENTAL!
why do they even bother? growl!
Comment by hannah — November 12, 2008 #
I know. Next time they should just set up a big fucking glass box in the BBC TV studio car park and herd us in. At least the we’d have the rights of other zoo animals.
Educational, it was. I learnt the BBC have learnt – fuck all!
Comment by Lola Snow — November 12, 2008 #
WOOP! WOOP! DOWN WITH THE BEEB! THE MENTAL PEOPLE ARE REVOLTING! THEY’RE COVERED IN COW SHIT!
apologies i think its time for my meds….
Comment by hannah — November 12, 2008 #
Again, this is why I love you Brits:
Barking
sodding
MENTAL
Beeb
Not ya’ll of course….But the words are fabulous.
I’m so sodding American…As evidenced by the angry purple icon.
Comment by Reas — November 12, 2008 #
The purple angry dude is growing on me now
Sodding barking mental avatars!
Do you do an English accent in your head when you read my posts?
I might start typing jolly poshly eh what? super, jolly hockey sticks and Pimms o’clock guv’ner me old matey!
Comment by Lola Snow — November 12, 2008 #
I couldn’t work out if it was patronising or ‘educational’. I guess I’m possibly not the target audience but it did have my partner (who probably is) talking about whether I thought he had depression (oh, that was a fun conversation (!)).. which I guess is the point of it. I am curious to see the next part though. I’m not sure on the validity regarding entertainment – but anyway..
Comment by cb — November 12, 2008 #
Didn’t see the show. Too depressed to care. Except when it comes to shaming people with mental illnesses. Like me – crazy. One would hardly think that we are human too. Let’s not play “spot the crazies”, any more that people would play “spot the gays”, “spot the mixed-races”, “spot the Muslim”, “spot the trannies”.
It’s insulting but now I’m just exhausted from all those quotation marks and am going back to my cat-piss smelling box on the side of the road x
Comment by Dark Sarcasm — November 12, 2008 #
Oh CB, that sounds like a fun packed evening of entertainment – did you reach a conclusion?
DK – bloody good point indeed. Why are we constantly being highlighted as a curiousity, or novelty. If it’s so fascinating to learn about mental illness, pick up a frigging book and read about it. Not by tuning in to some patronising twaddle on the beeb which is mascarding as “educational programming”.
Comment by Lola Snow — November 12, 2008 #
See? There’s another one! Twaddle!
“Do you do an English accent in your head when you read my posts?”
No, I don’t. Don’t want to butcher it, in my head or otherwise.
Comment by Reas — November 12, 2008 #
“spiffing”
“jeepers creepers”
“poppy-cock”
“scallywag”
“twerp”?
“golly gosh”
“codswallop”
“ninny”
“Namby-pamby”
“kerfuffle”
“jiggery-pokery”
“dilly-dally”
“Sloshed”
“flibbertigibbert”
“fiddlesticks”
“flipping”
“blurb”?
“Gordon Bennett”
Can anyone else think of any quintessential English phrases and words?
I don’t do accents, but I do imagine you as having a circular purple head, square glasses and a upside down smile
Kidding – you should get yourself a universal avatar!
Comment by Lola Snow — November 12, 2008 #
You don’t have a monopoly on “dilly-dally”. That being said, I don’t even know what “Gordon Bennett” means.
And you forgot “mate”, which I love. Oh, and “rubbish”. And snogging! And fag….
Harry Potter got me up to speed.
I have an icon on Blogger and it shows up on other blogs all the time. I guess Blogger and WordPress aren’t compatible.
Signed, The Purple People Eater
Comment by Reas — November 12, 2008 #