Comments on: Beautiful Madness http://www.spring.org.uk/2006/02/beautiful-madness.php Understand your mind with the science of psychology - Mon, 04 May 2009 10:30:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author) http://www.spring.org.uk/2006/02/beautiful-madness.php/comment-page-1#comment-19547 Jeremy (PsyBlog author) Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:05:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2006/02/beautiful-madness.php#comment-19547 More on the <a href="http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7343&issue=518" rel="nofollow">letters page of Prospect</a>. More on the letters page of Prospect.

]]> By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author) http://www.spring.org.uk/2006/02/beautiful-madness.php/comment-page-1#comment-19545 Jeremy (PsyBlog author) Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:20:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2006/02/beautiful-madness.php#comment-19545 Thanks for your comment. I think you might have a blogfriend there who likes to have their cake and eat it! <br /><br />Still, I'm guessing what people are getting at is this idea that it shouldn't be so bad to be fat. Equally, I suppose it shouldn't be so bad to be mad. Unfortunately madness easily has more social stigma attached to it than fatness. <br /><br />Perhaps the authors of this article shouldn't have been so surprised that 'Nia' chose to regain her sanity and sacrifice her thinness. Or perhaps they were simply surprised, in this age of extreme image-consciousness, that she didn't mourn the loss of her slenderness as much as they thought she ought to.<br /><br />Personally, I saw this article as a useful warning of the side-effects of antipsychotic medication, of which many people are not aware.<br /><br />Thoughts? Thanks for your comment. I think you might have a blogfriend there who likes to have their cake and eat it!

Still, I'm guessing what people are getting at is this idea that it shouldn't be so bad to be fat. Equally, I suppose it shouldn't be so bad to be mad. Unfortunately madness easily has more social stigma attached to it than fatness.

Perhaps the authors of this article shouldn't have been so surprised that 'Nia' chose to regain her sanity and sacrifice her thinness. Or perhaps they were simply surprised, in this age of extreme image-consciousness, that she didn't mourn the loss of her slenderness as much as they thought she ought to.

Personally, I saw this article as a useful warning of the side-effects of antipsychotic medication, of which many people are not aware.

Thoughts?

]]> By: Dr. Deb http://www.spring.org.uk/2006/02/beautiful-madness.php/comment-page-1#comment-19544 Dr. Deb Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:52:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2006/02/beautiful-madness.php#comment-19544 This article has been heating up quite a bit of blogging. I think many professionals and patients would argue both sides of the conflict. I recall one blogfriend saying we need better medications *and* we need to stretch cultural standards of beauty. I agree with that statement.<br /><br /> BTW, great blog you have here. This article has been heating up quite a bit of blogging. I think many professionals and patients would argue both sides of the conflict. I recall one blogfriend saying we need better medications *and* we need to stretch cultural standards of beauty. I agree with that statement.

BTW, great blog you have here.

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