Stephen Fry bbc2 now - Manic Depression

not another one for goodness sake, wish they would pipe down, selfish people very often....I suppose that's not acceptable now.

1 every 10 years....not very frequent

He's banned himself from Twatter today.

Joleon Lescott had a better way of dealing with them over the weekend..

g2d's not too bad....a good heart.

The Leopard    15 Feb 16 22:07 
Trolls had a go at him.


Yes they did. Just as they are doing on this thread. People's sheer ignorance of mental health issues
Is staggering.

Mind the step as you go out.

Paris Lees on telly again
nearly done me again

yeah they`re depressed and will never miss a chance to let everyone around them know it.
Will be prepared to make the lives of others hell, family members who have no refuge from it, in their relentless madness and misery.

Increased awareness of mental stability can only be a good thing.

Depression is a chemical imbalance; and although too easily trotted out by non sufferers, for those who genuinely have the illness deserve our sympathy and not be subjected to narrow minded insults.

The strange thing is that depression only seems to affect certain groups of people. 
You don't see many time workers who depend on their wages and don't get paid when they're not at work getting it, or the self employed.

They don't get paid when they're not at work so they just get on with it.

Unless they have a family and get more on benefits, then they tend to suffer from depression. 

I'll accept that many cases of depression are very serious and will completely incapacitate the suffers.

Others play it up to get more benefits or in the case of Fry to simply draw attention to himself and make money from it.
For what other reasons would he have for telling the world about it?

To help raise awareness? To tell those who have mental health problems that if successful people have it therefore it isn't their "fault". One thing I can say with absolute certainty during my brief stint working in hospital with the worst affected people is that mental health problems affected people from all walks of life. The worst thing I could say about personal responsibility is that things like drugs were more likely to exacerbate any underlying tendency towards difficulties.

As for fearing people with mental illness in the majority of cases you don't have to fear them. Some you do. Unfortunately it is attitudes like that which cause the stigma associated with mental health problems. Far more could and should be done to help people with such problems and the single biggest thing isn't to pay your ten bob to point and laugh but to actually care about the welfare of friends, neighbours and other people in society who are blighted by such health problems.

^ EO....oc

Is everyone that gets down a manic depressive/bipolar?  If not can those that don’t get a proper diagnosis be dismissed as weak?  Similar thing with dyslexia.  What if you can’t spell or do maths and that and struggle in exams but don’t get diagnosed with dyslexia?  I mean not all thick children are dyslexic are they, some are just thick whereas dyslexics aren’t.  They’re dyslexic.

Fwiw I like Stephen Fry and he doesn’t really drone on and on about it (or his homosexuality) just 2 programmes in 10 years.  He no doubt answers questions about it when asked and if people want to put that in newspapers that is up to them, if people read it it is also up to them.  When Stephen  Fry speaks, I listen though.

He comes across to me as just a great big baby.

He's educated, he's successful, he's a comedian, he hosts panel shows, he writes books and makes television programmes.
If he'd got a fraction of the problems he keeps bleating about how on earth could he nave achieved so much?

What does he do - turn it on and off at will?

lfc1971    16 Feb 16 07:49 
Anyone stupid enough to equate mental illness with cancer I will try to make this simple..you do not have to fear someone with cancer.

Why should you fear someone suffering from mental illness ? The fact that they may be unpredictable and do stupid and irrational things - including violence.?

In that case ,I assume you're afraid of everyone who gets drunk ?

There is a fine line between genius/intelligent creative people, and madness/depression and destructive behaviour. In the past Stephen Fry has shown all these. Just that fine line between genius and insanity.

Many depressed people like Facts get diagnosed as ''anxiety hystericals.''

Sometimes defined as those who are unable to express themselves sexually.

The flash temper, the sadistic urge to inflict pain on others through their own lack of being able to express themselves, is a common trait amongst these individuals.

Fortunately there's a very good remedy for this, and I'd prescribe it especially for Facts.

It is in layman's terms -  a damn good hiding.

^ I knew it wouldn't take long for Borneo to steer the conversation back to Migrants

You really have become an intolerable, repeditive bore, Sir.

Dr C

seriously hope you never encounter depression.
Can have devastating effects.