I’m no fan of the Hon. Member for Mid Beds, but, credit where credit’s due, I wholly agree with her on the question asked by Andrew Marr of the PM. Attacking the man in such a personal way, and not at all professionally, took journalism to a new low and eroded what respect is left [...]

Paul ‘Guido Fawkes’ Staines says that Gordon Brown may be taking an anti-depressant of the MAOI class; apparently the story is doing the rounds of the Westminster village. The article goes to show what a little shit Paul Staines is. Begin brief rant Mental illness is not a lot of fun. It’s also poorly understood [...]

I feel a random urge to post a link to my medication here… I know my behaviour has been odd of late, so this might help to explain why. The sections on bipolar disorder are appropriate to me. www.zyprexa.com xD.

So. I have ‘made the decision’ to defer my exams because I am suffering, as the letter from my psychiatrist attests, from a manic disorder. I use the inverted commas advisedly, as I could not make a decision, it being the only option to me. While things are better now because of the medication and [...]

I’ve been reading Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation. I’d previously seen the film so I thought I should see what it’s based on. The film took a bit of a panning from the critics which I don’t think it altogether deserves. Although the events it is based on are the same, the film, by virtue of [...]