tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post679492522261163642..comments2024-03-13T15:35:30.839+00:00Comments on Tabloid Watch: Recommended reading - linksMacGuffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894506410560858668noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-78738693307371010922010-06-16T13:57:39.832+01:002010-06-16T13:57:39.832+01:00I remember, ages ago, a newspaper letters page wit...I remember, ages ago, a newspaper letters page with one featuring some seriously messed-up logic in dealing with mental health issues. The reasoning ran thus: treatment for depression costs x% of the NHS budget and is expected to rise. <br />The NHS is costly while other 'sevices', like prisons, are short of space and money. <br />Depression was cited as one of the most common forms of mental illness.<br />Wiki says that the diagnostic criteria for the most commonly-diagnosed type of depression include persistent feelings of guilt without reason.<br />People don't feel guilty without a reason.<br />Therefore depressed people have all done something wrong and deserve punishment, not special treatment.<br />Therefore all funding for their treatment should be redirected to HMPS.<br /><br />Completely failed to understand why it's described as an illness. Nobody's blameless, but if you tell someone who's both suicidal and innocent of any crime that they must have done terrible things, you achieve nothing but further suicide attempts.<br />I was still at school, so it would have been 7-10 years ago, I don't remember if it was the Mail or the Mirror, nor which side of the border it came from. just rather disappointing to see that attitudes have not changed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-13138030816673999462010-06-13T22:58:41.066+01:002010-06-13T22:58:41.066+01:00THE JSP Article was a hatchet job on previous DM c...THE JSP Article was a hatchet job on previous DM columnist Alison Pearson, who left with depression because she could no longer bear working under editor Paul Dacre, see this fortnights Private Eye (No. 1264)<br /><br />Its really very illumninating how the DM works!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-78464305218187201952010-06-13T12:57:35.418+01:002010-06-13T12:57:35.418+01:00The Janet Street-Porter article on mental health i...The Janet Street-Porter article on mental health in the Mail is utterly shocking. How the hell does bile like this get past a professional newspaper editor? Think JSP desperately needs to get some education on the subject as she's making an utter fool of herself there. Have had one friend die, and another make two suicide attempts to know all too well that mental health is just as important as physical health. Articles like hers continue to see it trivialised in a manner that ultimately costs lives through people failing to take the issues at hand seriously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com