The Left-Wing Bias of World Mental Health Day is Enough to Drive You Insane
Alan Partridge is back on our screens, but he’s not very well. The much-loved Norwich-based media personality and broadcaster has endured many well-documented mental health crises down the years, from the day he shot a man live on-air, to the day he drove all the way to Dundee in his bare feet, and now, in a rare new BBC series actually worth watching, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge), which is billed as being “Britain’s first ever documentary about mental health”, he is dispensing his psychological well-being tips to the nation.
For example, should you ever be feeling suicidal, Alan has produced an online set of “Printable Affirmation Cards”, instructing users to cut them out (with blunt-tipped child safety-scissors) and keep them somewhere safe, in the event of an inevitable mental health emergency: “When you need a little lift, keep these affirmation cards nearby.” Keeping some Valium nearby might work better, but not for Alan. When bubbling memories of your bitter divorce, your children’s death in a freak air-crash, and your recent fatal brain-cancer diagnosis all get a bit too much to handle, simply staring at Alan’s hand-drawn Doodles of Immense Positivity will inevitably draw you back down from the windowsill. And how could they not, with profoundly uplifting and healing messages like these?
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There’s certainly much to be depressed about these days, starting with World Mental Health Day. I’m just off to commit suicide – I may be some time.
Dying for some good news?
Parody and day to day stuff are so hard to separate nowdays!
If I ever need a shrink, please let it be Dr Dix from the Jesse Stone series. Good straight talking, no waffle, an oldfashioned waft of cigarette smoke. Heaven protect me from empathy.
Very funny and thanks for a cheery start to my day.
So sick of it, and there go William and Kate again off on one of their favourite bandwaggons mental elf. I just wish they would shut up and get on with opening supermarkets
Mental elf sounds like the doom goblin.
Just to cheer us up, my better 0.5 found that it’s World Menopause Day next week. I looked it up to see if there was anything I could do to help but only World Menstruation Hygiene Day had anything practical to offer
Superb. Wonderful article – it had me laughing out loud every couple of paragraphs. I became so cheerful that I forgot to be miserable about World Mental Health Day for a few minutes.
Yes this is the therapy I need. I am a bit dozy this morning and didn’t notice who the author of this piece was – until I burst out laughing, then I knew!
I think there’s a shadowy international organisation of HR departments behind all this. Without these ridiculous ‘days’, what would they have to fill their stupid emails with, therefore justifying their own existence?
If you are the sort of person who downloads and prints the ‘Printable Affirmation Cards’ then you don’t need them. What person suffering from a genuine mental health crisis would do that?
Munchausen syndrome at a mass scale
Is this real?
Lockdowns did wonders for mental health, ditto being constantly lied to and gaslighted by government and the media
Doom scrolling, AKA looking through the comments on the Daily Telegraph or Guardian.
I cheered myself up quite considerably this week by spending 2 hours delivering leaflets for Reform UK.
Oh …. and I got the NHS to remove me from their automatic invitation to have Big Phama poisons injected into me.
So all in all, quite a good week.
The WHO saying ‘there is no health without mental health’ is very reminiscent of the obviously false slogan ‘no one is free till Palestine is free’. If they want to reduce irrational feelings of overwhelming doom, they could start by not broadening bad things that affect some people into universal experiences that are the responsibility of literally everyone.
One Covid death is one too many. Nobody is safe until everyone is safe. They do have a recognisable twang, don’t they? Untruthiness. Oh and my personal bugbear: A society can be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members.
The lies of this post truth age are the most pernicious ever experienced by mankind. Resist.
Great article btw.
It’s not all right to spell all right alright.
Now that’s depressing!
I strongly recommend Bob Newhart’s sketch ‘Stop it’. On You Tube. Timeless advice.
We frequently use it when friends and their children are being ‘overwhelmed’ by their good fortune.
Thanks for this dose of sanity.
Clear evidence that those on the Left suffer far mental problems than us on the Right
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Clear+evidence+that+those+on+the+Left+suffer+far+mental+problems+than+us+on+the+Right&t=brave&ia=web