Do I have dark days? Of course.
Do I worry? A lot.
How do I cope?
By being paid to do this. After all, libel costs don’t leave much for the pension pot…..
Do I have dark days? Of course.
Do I worry? A lot.
How do I cope?
By being paid to do this. After all, libel costs don’t leave much for the pension pot…..
Where Ritchie tries to copy the cool kids on Twitter, who are always sharing their undiagnosed mental illnesses for lefty* status points:
And because I am probably neurodivergent (or what is called ADHD, although I have no diagnosis), I find sitting still and doing nothing about what concerns me very hard.
He believes he has a mental condition, his wife is a doctor, he worships the NHS, and he’s undiagnosed?
What?
*If you’re mentally ill and right wing, they’d step over you on the street.
No kids in my school had ADHD because their parents had knocked it out of them.
Lots of kids get ‘diagnosed’ with ADHD (or other ‘disorder’) simply to get statemented and thereby receive additional help and funding.
Jesus Wept.
In reply, I said this:
Do I have dark days? Of course.
Do I worry? A lot.
How do I cope? By doing something. It’s the only way I know.
But does it make all the worry go away? Rarely.
So, I keep going.
I think that is worth sharing. If it ever comes across that I do not have my doubts, worries, and concerns, that might be good stage management on my part, but that’s not the truth. As my family would tell you, I am both a worrier and a short-term catastrophiser (which they have learned to ignore because it always passes quickly).
Bloody hell – well he does a very good job of hiding it, and if there’s any disagreement then of course we can block people.
I most certainly do not think I am possessed of all the answers. Precisely because I wish I were, which hope is based on a belief that those answers must exist, there is always more to do.
And because I am probably neurodivergent (or what is called ADHD, although I have no diagnosis), I find sitting still and doing nothing about what concerns me very hard.
I’ll bear this post in mind next time I question MMT or ‘The Tax Gap’. As Steve writes – if his wife worked in the NHS I am sure even at his age he could get a diagnosis.
I call that a strength, by the way, and not a weakness. I happen to think being ‘normal’ is rather oversold as to its desirability in our society. Neoliberalism might wish us to be just that, so that we are profoundly compliant with its wishes, but that is not my desire. And as a matter of fact, my experience is a very great many of us don’t even vaguely approximate to that version of normal, and I don’t and do not want to.
Which is of course why you want to steal everyone savings and force us all to be vegan and not travel?
o, I react to the events around me by writing and talking about them. It is what I can do.
I think we all need to react in whatever way we can. The way we do need not be the same. And that’s a strength.
But what we most definitely do not need to think is that disagreeing makes us abnormal. It does not. It makes us critical thinkers, appraisers of the truth, seekers after justice and campaigners for those in need. Progress has always been dependent on those willing to be such things.
You have no capacity for critical thought and subject anyone who disagrees with your thesis to near immediate censure. You wouldn;t know the truth if it physically assaulted you and the notion that your planned utopia is even close to justice is a travesty. Your dismissal of the recent disturbances and various other appalling utterances (People need to be banned from using imperial measurements or eating meat) suggest you don’t care one iota for those in need, and to portray yourself as some kind of martyr when you embody everything hateful and oppressive in the contemporary UK is grotesque, frankly.
The only oddity is that it seems that every single person in Labour seems to have forgotten that these days. But that makes them the oddity: how can you be a politician without a cause, and yet they do not seem to have one?
In that context, I am pleased that I know why I am here and what I am trying to do. That’s one thing less for me to worry about.
It’s very rare that those possessed of an evil mindset consider the consequences of their actions and you are proof positive of that.
…and so with one bound all of Captain Potato’s weaknesses turn out to be strengths!
What a tedious, narcissistic old twat he is. How about reducing the Slapping Spud articles to one a day? It will do VP’s blood pressure the world of good, if nothing else.
Classic Munchausen’s syndrome.
He’s developed another condition, self-diagnosed, in case being struck down by yet another bout of Long Covid starts to become boring to his camp followers.
Some define “Neurodivergent” as being “Autistic”, some include DHD within the definition of “neurodivergent” or “neurodiverse”.
AFAIK, no-one except Murphy thinks “neurodivergent” just means ADHD
If you’re mentally ill and right wing, they’d step over you on the street.
Perhaps. Though, to leftists, being right-wing is at best a moral fault and at worst an Hitlerianly evil form of madness, so they’d prefer you to be in prison/silenced/executed. Of course, leftist mental illness is ’caused’ by the evils of capitalism – not an immature reaction to it.
V_P: excellent stuff.
And long last the potato self declares as mentally deranged. I’m not sure someone can have a saviour complex and a Martyr complex at the same time and not be mentally ill. Perhaps it’s as Bravefart mentions it’s a side effect of his 37th bout of covid. Though knowing the potato apart from trying to gain sympathy (and their cash) from his acolytes, he’s hoping to use his world class grifting powers to wangle some benefits from the taxpayer, though in my experience they are just as likely to diagnose him with alzheimers or similar
Theo – Of course, leftist mental illness is ’caused’ by the evils of capitalism – not an immature reaction to it.
Or, Patriarchy, racism, and occasionally climate change.
Gotta love these self-diagnosed nutters who think it’s cool to be mentally ill.
“ I happen to think being ‘normal’ is rather oversold as to its desirability in our society. Neoliberalism might wish us to be just that, so that we are profoundly compliant with its wishes, but that is not my desire. ”
Good grief, he really does have no self-awareness.
The whole foundation of neoliberalism is that everyone can pursue their own idea of the good life, no matter how normal or abnormal they are considered (so long as they don’t infringe others’ rights in doing so).
In contrast the whole basis of Murphy’s political philosophy (if we can so dignify it) is that a middle-aged man in Ely knows what is the good life and how to achieve it, and woe betide anyone who thinks otherwise.
This is the man who, just the other day, said that he couldn’t see the point of boats so no-one should have one. And he has said many similar things; that’s just the example I could remember from the last week.
Whoever is wanting us all to be the same, it ain’t us neoliberals.
I was working late in the office one evening and overheard one cleaning lady say to another…
“They said he was mentally ill, but I reckon it was all in his head”
As I say with any affliction: if you *know* you’ve got it, and *don’t* do anything about it, you get zero sympathy.
If your spelling is bad and you don’t train yourself to use a dictionary, then piss off.
If you know you don’t understand interpersonal interactions and don’t train yourself on politely extracting yourself from them (I’m talking to *YOU* on the bus talking to everybody), then piss off.
“I have ADHD….and can’t be arsed to do anything about it, *YOU* must work around it”…. No. Feurque off.
False humility is the most disgusting affectation, I think.
Normally I don’t comment on this twerp – though I enjoy V_P’s takedowns – but this one was really emetic.
Potato has blight – best excised
Don’t know what to say except mention the Fawlty Towers episode where the psychiatrist says “There’s enough material there for an entire conference.”
I remember when someone who was an a**hole was pressured to change, to improve. It was a bad thing to be one.
Then, the a**holes figured out that psychologists anxious to build patient lists would label them as being “on the spectrum.”
They got an excuse for being an a**hole plus some social victim-status, the psych got insurance payments, and it was a win/win!
No, buddy, you’re not neurodivergent. You’re an ass.
I enjoyed hearing that he worries and is a catastrophist. Warmed the cockles.