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Re: More scaremongering by the Health Police
« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2008, 04:32:52 PM »
Yes ~ very interesting indeed and Uncle makes a good point about realising potential but then Churchill was a manic depressive (not a PC label these days I know), Montgomery was a suppressed shirt lifter and heaven alone knows what was wrong with Patten but he certainly was not "normal".

I just feel that the problem with so many of these "modern" diagnoses is that once a label has been attached to a problem a whole profession grows up around it and what may have been something quite rare becomes commonplace with a complete industry devoted to ensuring that the gravy train created continues to roll.

It's all too difficult for mere laymen like me, who never went to university, to solve. I can only sit and comment about something that I have little understanding of. Prolly better to keep my mouth shut but we dinosaurs don't die out that easily.
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Re: More scaremongering by the Health Police
« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2008, 04:47:15 PM »
Although are genuine cases of all these things, they have become more acceptable terms for the middle classes than "thick as two short planks".
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Re: More scaremongering by the Health Police
« Reply #17 on: August 07, 2008, 04:48:42 PM »
Good point BH
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Re: More scaremongering by the Health Police
« Reply #18 on: August 08, 2008, 07:00:15 AM »
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