I agree. This is so *stupid*.

BPD with co-morbidity is almost a psychiatric in-joke. I recommend a viewing or reading of Joe Penhall’s “Blue/Orange”!

Admitting error on a comment thread is both rare and wise- respect! :-)

BPD gets conflated with narcissism and with sociopathy. It is neither. Importantly, it is also a label frequently given to “difficult” or “non compliant” psych patients. I spent a month on a personality disorder unit with 30 patients. 26 were women. 18 were gay. It is a punishment diagnosis. It is a dustbin diagnosis.…

NO. That is profoundly offensive. I know many people with BPD, most of them are a danger to no one but themselves. If you buy into and spread the stigma - you are part of the problem.

Frankly, £100000 sounds a positively modest amount for the trauma in this case. This is horrific, and someone needs to lose their job.

There is something about that woman’s eyes that scares the bejesus out of me.

Bearing in mind that the vote NATIONALLY was only 52:48. This whole thing is a disaster. There is a movement for LONDON to declare it’s independence (obviously this is impossible, but good luck to them!) The country is in bits.

No, your comment was accurate, it’s just only 51% of us believed the bullshit in the suicide note!

I cannot express how much I hate this man. Thanks for fucking with my country on a whim. The ensuing chaos can be ENTIRELY your fault, dumbass.

Farage is as bad as Trump, but he’s a joke, he’s not the risk. Johnson is the worry - he looks like a buffoon, but he’s SMART. And it looks a lot like he’ll be the next PM, without election.

What? You don’t think the government punish the disabled for disability? The first thing the Tories did on getting to power was cut Access To Work (the scheme which funds equipment allowing disabled people to be able to work). Then they spend the rest of the time telling us we’re lazy for not going to the jobs we…

I hope you’re right. I don’t pretend to be an expert in international law. But I know Gove was bewailing the EU somehow being in the way of him scrapping that, and coming up with his own version (probably something along the lines of “a human shall be defined as someone earning £50k + a year”).

It’s more like a parachute jump, where as people plunge through the air, the instructor says “You thought we said there was a parachute? Lol!” and they eventually realise why the screaming person chained to their leg was begging them to stay in the plane.

I’m a disabled woman who has already been scapegoated by the austerity policies of the current “moderate” government, and has just seen a bunch of right-wing, nationalist idealogues win a referendum.

Going to guess you aren’t disabled. Virtually all of this country’s equality law has been enforced by European courts. There goes that.

I am sitting here, at dawn, watching my country put worker’s rights, human rights, equality and protection for the disabled, and the UK economy on a bonfire, for the sake of some Union-jack-bunting “patriotism”, on the say-so of ghouls like Farage and Duncan-Smith. (Whatever happens next won’t touch them. They will…

There isn’t a way to stop it happening - it’s built in. We all know about the “fight or flight” instinct? It’s correct name is “fight, flight or freeze”, but that’s not as catchy. In evolution terms, we are channeling the animal that plays dead. If you can stay supernaturally calm, you can break the spell, but when…

Oh my god, this is glorious. I want this to be a thing for all politicians. I can fill in the blanks on half the British cabinet, in about 20 minutes. (When the leader of your country actually fucks dead livestock, you don’t have to try very hard.)

Farage is a racist joke - UKIP is the Tea Party of British politics. But Johnson scares the hell out of me. He’s going to be our Trump - only much cleverer.