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		<title>By: His Old September Song &#171; Bodwyn Wook</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-sick-man-of-europe/#comment-10586</link>
		<dc:creator>His Old September Song &#171; Bodwyn Wook</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: fidothedog</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-sick-man-of-europe/#comment-8926</link>
		<dc:creator>fidothedog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gordon an insane cock.</description>
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		<title>By: Meejician</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-sick-man-of-europe/#comment-8924</link>
		<dc:creator>Meejician</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was put on MAOIs following a major &#039;breakdown&#039; in 1970. They saved my life and my psychological health. I have never had to use any major medication since, despite my depressive tendencies. They did the job they were prescribed for. Am I now supposed to feel less than adequate because I took this medication? Am I now supposed to feel less than adequate because this medication wasn&#039;t insulin, or aspirin, or ventolin?

I don&#039;t like this demonisation of mental and emotional health . It&#039;s getting too personal for political ends, and I refuse to have anything to do with this.

I now do nicotine and fermented grapes, big time. 

Whatever anyone has to say about Gordon Brown, can they please not offend any of us who may have had their lives saved by MAOIs. My life was saved. I haven&#039;t attempted suicide since 1970 - well maybe once in 1976, but it was half-hearted. I have suffered clinical depression many times since then. It&#039;s not easy to live with.

Whatever you joke about, don&#039;t joke about or poke fun at mental health.


It can be a killer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was put on MAOIs following a major &#8216;breakdown&#8217; in 1970. They saved my life and my psychological health. I have never had to use any major medication since, despite my depressive tendencies. They did the job they were prescribed for. Am I now supposed to feel less than adequate because I took this medication? Am I now supposed to feel less than adequate because this medication wasn&#8217;t insulin, or aspirin, or ventolin?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t like this demonisation of mental and emotional health . It&#8217;s getting too personal for political ends, and I refuse to have anything to do with this.</p>
<p>I now do nicotine and fermented grapes, big time. </p>
<p>Whatever anyone has to say about Gordon Brown, can they please not offend any of us who may have had their lives saved by MAOIs. My life was saved. I haven&#8217;t attempted suicide since 1970 &#8211; well maybe once in 1976, but it was half-hearted. I have suffered clinical depression many times since then. It&#8217;s not easy to live with.</p>
<p>Whatever you joke about, don&#8217;t joke about or poke fun at mental health.</p>
<p>It can be a killer.</p>
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		<title>By: Bodwyn Wook</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-sick-man-of-europe/#comment-8921</link>
		<dc:creator>Bodwyn Wook</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now see here, Broun is /not/ an OCD.  /I/ am an OCD and, therefore, a Libertarian.  (These two /superior/ conditions indeed so often occur in tandem as to be inseparable.)  So really, now, don&#039;t you think you load of ITBT&#039;s (Inability To Be Tidy&#039;s) should just pipe down and seek sectioning along with your pathological analogues, the ITBIAH&#039;s.  Inability To Be In A House, the more deteriorated form of ITBT, in fact is plainly what afflicts Broun, who seemingly can indeed do nothing with the House  to-day (except, as the above article would imply) to throw empty crisp packets onto the floor.

Too much of the jargon of psychiatric diagnosis in this case is conditioned by the fact a majority of psychiatrists, along with everyone else, are simply slobs who in seventeen per cent of cases, surveys show, don&#039;t even use loo paper.  (/This/ last, in fact, is why Broun -- a man who lives on surveys! -- looks crabbed &amp; squinty, and not some fanciful psychiatrical drivel, he has merely a rashy vent &amp; perineum.)

Remember, you read it here first:  &#039;Us OCD&#039;s&#039; have had enough, and some of us have guns AND all of the empty beer bottles necessary with which to hit you over the head, the ones /you/ have been so obligingly leaving  in  the front garden now for years!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now see here, Broun is /not/ an OCD.  /I/ am an OCD and, therefore, a Libertarian.  (These two /superior/ conditions indeed so often occur in tandem as to be inseparable.)  So really, now, don&#8217;t you think you load of ITBT&#8217;s (Inability To Be Tidy&#8217;s) should just pipe down and seek sectioning along with your pathological analogues, the ITBIAH&#8217;s.  Inability To Be In A House, the more deteriorated form of ITBT, in fact is plainly what afflicts Broun, who seemingly can indeed do nothing with the House  to-day (except, as the above article would imply) to throw empty crisp packets onto the floor.</p>
<p>Too much of the jargon of psychiatric diagnosis in this case is conditioned by the fact a majority of psychiatrists, along with everyone else, are simply slobs who in seventeen per cent of cases, surveys show, don&#8217;t even use loo paper.  (/This/ last, in fact, is why Broun &#8212; a man who lives on surveys! &#8212; looks crabbed &amp; squinty, and not some fanciful psychiatrical drivel, he has merely a rashy vent &amp; perineum.)</p>
<p>Remember, you read it here first:  &#8216;Us OCD&#8217;s&#8217; have had enough, and some of us have guns AND all of the empty beer bottles necessary with which to hit you over the head, the ones /you/ have been so obligingly leaving  in  the front garden now for years!</p>
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		<title>By: bad, mad and buggering up the country? &#124; Anonymong</title>
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		<dc:creator>bad, mad and buggering up the country? &#124; Anonymong</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Anna Racoon a rather thought provoking article from Not born yesterday. As quite a few other people have also [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Gloria Smudd</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-sick-man-of-europe/#comment-8918</link>
		<dc:creator>Gloria Smudd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Damn! Of course that should have been 646 Parliament .. grrrr! I blame these chubby digits...</description>
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		<title>By: Gloria Smudd</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gloria Smudd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Psychometric testing Liz?  Well, if it&#039;s good enough for Boots the Chemist, then why isn&#039;t it good enough for Numbers 1 - 636 Parliament?  Good suggestion, that lass!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Psychometric testing Liz?  Well, if it&#8217;s good enough for Boots the Chemist, then why isn&#8217;t it good enough for Numbers 1 &#8211; 636 Parliament?  Good suggestion, that lass!</p>
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		<title>By: casper90</title>
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		<dc:creator>casper90</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In 1961 when I was 19 I was put on these anti depressants before the dangers were known. The first time I ate a cheese sandwich I suffered a headache so severe I wanted to bang my head against a wall to stop it. I made no connection until it happened a second time when I asked the doctor if there could be any connection and was taken off them at once and, I guess, became one of the cases reported which lead to the realisation that some foods sent blood pressure sky high and that I was very lucky that I was very slim, young and had low Blood pressure. Will someone please give Gordon a cheese or marmite sandwich and a glass of red wine! or perhaps as in America a potential leader should make his medical records available as it seems we have had two unstable leaders Blair a narcisstic personality and now a dangerous sociopath.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 1961 when I was 19 I was put on these anti depressants before the dangers were known. The first time I ate a cheese sandwich I suffered a headache so severe I wanted to bang my head against a wall to stop it. I made no connection until it happened a second time when I asked the doctor if there could be any connection and was taken off them at once and, I guess, became one of the cases reported which lead to the realisation that some foods sent blood pressure sky high and that I was very lucky that I was very slim, young and had low Blood pressure. Will someone please give Gordon a cheese or marmite sandwich and a glass of red wine! or perhaps as in America a potential leader should make his medical records available as it seems we have had two unstable leaders Blair a narcisstic personality and now a dangerous sociopath.</p>
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		<title>By: Henry North London</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-sick-man-of-europe/#comment-8915</link>
		<dc:creator>Henry North London</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mmm  I have been away from the computer today and see that the psychiatric cup has runneth over..

If the man is indisposed then Harperson should be running the country

Of course that is a bit too much so Mandelsnake will be involved.

Why doesnt he just call an election  It might just have  the desired effect.  Then he can rest whilst Cameroon sells us down the river</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mmm  I have been away from the computer today and see that the psychiatric cup has runneth over..</p>
<p>If the man is indisposed then Harperson should be running the country</p>
<p>Of course that is a bit too much so Mandelsnake will be involved.</p>
<p>Why doesnt he just call an election  It might just have  the desired effect.  Then he can rest whilst Cameroon sells us down the river</p>
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		<title>By: Liz Robillard</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-sick-man-of-europe/#comment-8912</link>
		<dc:creator>Liz Robillard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sociopaths have done us quite enough harm thank you, isn&#039;t it time we vetted people with extensive, even extrapolated psychometric testing for such illnesses and disease before we allow them to trample us to death ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sociopaths have done us quite enough harm thank you, isn&#8217;t it time we vetted people with extensive, even extrapolated psychometric testing for such illnesses and disease before we allow them to trample us to death ?</p>
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		<title>By: Gloria Smudd</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-sick-man-of-europe/#comment-8911</link>
		<dc:creator>Gloria Smudd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And while we&#039;re all ruminating, what&#039;s with the Darth-Vader, slack-jaw, iron-lung-esque, regular, rasping inhalation??????</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And while we&#8217;re all ruminating, what&#8217;s with the Darth-Vader, slack-jaw, iron-lung-esque, regular, rasping inhalation??????</p>
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		<title>By: Gloria Smudd</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-sick-man-of-europe/#comment-8910</link>
		<dc:creator>Gloria Smudd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Too true.  How&#039;s the knee, Blink?</description>
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		<title>By: miss mink</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-sick-man-of-europe/#comment-8909</link>
		<dc:creator>miss mink</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very interesting.
I&#039;m  with Blink, regardless of the health issues, he should never have
been allowed to get to the position of PM in the first place.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very interesting.<br />
I&#8217;m  with Blink, regardless of the health issues, he should never have<br />
been allowed to get to the position of PM in the first place.</p>
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		<title>By: Liz Robillard</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-sick-man-of-europe/#comment-8908</link>
		<dc:creator>Liz Robillard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a health professional I&#039;ve concluded a lot more in the personality disorder department in his head, but many thanks, I love you deeply.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a health professional I&#8217;ve concluded a lot more in the personality disorder department in his head, but many thanks, I love you deeply.</p>
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		<title>By: Blink</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-sick-man-of-europe/#comment-8907</link>
		<dc:creator>Blink</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does it not concern anyone that we have to go to these lengths to raise any query about this man&#039;s eligibility for office? 

Is there not enough evidence out there of his ability to show that Gordon Brown is the least eligible person in the country to be PM because he fucking useless, dangerous and a complete global laughing stock!

Wake up Britain</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does it not concern anyone that we have to go to these lengths to raise any query about this man&#8217;s eligibility for office? </p>
<p>Is there not enough evidence out there of his ability to show that Gordon Brown is the least eligible person in the country to be PM because he fucking useless, dangerous and a complete global laughing stock!</p>
<p>Wake up Britain</p>
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		<title>By: WitteringsfromWitney</title>
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		<dc:creator>WitteringsfromWitney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brilliant spot Anna - have linked and commented!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brilliant spot Anna &#8211; have linked and commented!</p>
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