WELL-BEING FIRST: THINKING HEALTHY IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged abuse, action, apathy, Boris Johnson, Brexit, conservative, coronavirus, covid, covid19, crisis, featured, health, Infection Control Today, jeremy corbyn, Joseph Stiglitz, left, liberal, media, mental health, MSM, NHS, NPD, PPE, psychology, Tory, Trump, uk, well-being, wellbeing.

by Sunetra Senior

A couple of weeks ago we were told of the extent of the Tory government’s negligence during a time of intense international crisis. They disregarded important information provided by advisory committees at critical moments as well as the crucial COBRA Meetings themselves, which are specifically held to ensure strong leadership at times of national emergency. According to the article in The Times, Boris’ earlier inaction has resulted in the number of deaths reaching six figures with the estimated mortality predicted to be 400,000. Of course, in addition to patently disregarding hundreds of thousands of lives, Johnson’s administration has also put the physical health of millions at risk with the virus running uncontrolled throughout the population for a whole month between 24th Feb when the recorded number of deaths skyrocketed, and the announcement of effective lockdown measures in mid-March.Continue Reading

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: A REPRESSED SUPERPOWER, PART II

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged abuse, behaviour, behavioural disorder, bipolar, Bojack Horseman, borderline personality disorder, BPD, care, cbt, DBT, eggshell therapy, emotional intelligence, empathy, featured, MAriah Carey, mental health, mental illness, misconceptions, personal, psychology, Raphael Bob Waksberg, research, stigma, superpower, therapy, trauma, UKCP.

by Sunetra Senior

CW: abuse | Continues from Part I here

Both Analytical and Emotional Intelligence

Mystification: go to work in an office to endorse more of that analytical, grounded thinking.

Hidden Truth: having these two qualities in equal measure means you have constant access to an enviable social clairvoyance that does well in advisory and imaginative professions.

The twin pairing is an attenuated, ongoing version of psychosis which means you can control it and draw from it whenever you want. What’s more you can immediately translate profound ideas to those around you, having one foot in the cosmos and the other in the everyday. That same parental lacking when a person with Border Personality Disorder grew up, made them sharp to environmental clues in order to survive. As this person grows older, they will retain this attentiveness, accumulating little signs and symbols – politically, mathematically and socially – to equip them to make impressive and perceptive connections and even predict sociological algorithms.

Additionally, you are likely to be excellent in the arts and in critical thinking because you process such a sensitivity to surroundings and are rapidly processing information and images. You can identify intuitive nuances that make great cinema and literature.

The world needs more dedicated artists, sociologists, researchers and socially conscious politicians, not bankers, marketing executives and legal crooks.Continue Reading

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: A REPRESSED SUPERPOWER, PART I

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged abuse, behaviour, behavioural disorder, bipolar, borderline personality disorder, BPD, care, cbt, DBT, emotional intelligence, empathy, featured, MAriah Carey, mental health, mental illness, misconceptions, personal, psychology, research, stigma, superpower, therapy, trauma.

by Sunetra Senior

CW: self-harm, abuse

As a homage to mental health awareness week (14th- 20th May), I have decided to write on an often misunderstood and underrepresented psychological health condition close to my heart, or more accurately my spirit. Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD is characterised as a ‘behavioural disorder’, which is intrinsic to one’s selfhood, and because of its often abuse-induced origins, has been notoriously difficult to treat. It is not the expected actions or the very true fact that the condition is deeply ingrained that I take issue with, but the medical paradigm of dysfunction and negativity implied by the alliterative last acronym.

This pervasive perceptual context, reflective of the attitude towards many mental health issues, permits an entire trail of prejudice, extending to the defining symptoms of BPD. Common misconceptions are “attention-seeking, manipulative and over-emotional”. This comes from the high numbers of those with BPD who self-harm, especially during their already tumultuous teenage years, their expressing the need for special care or extra-vigilance and seeming not to be able to cope with the interpersonal and social challenges that everyone else can.

It is time to not only put the record straight, but to add some fucking colour.Continue Reading

NO, YOU’RE NOT A FRAUD – IMPOSTER SYNDROME IN HE

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academia, academic staff, academics, acceptance, confidence, expectations, higher education, honesty, imperfection, imposter syndrome, job roles, knowledge, learning, lecturers, lessons, media, mental health, money, phD, psychology, reputation, students, teaching, undergraduate, universities.

by Alex Powell

Recently I’ve started teaching as part of my PhD, and through doing so I‘ve been learning a few things myself. The most striking thing I have noticed is how skewed and extreme expectations are for people in various academic roles. Why do we assume that a lecturer in any given subject should know everything there is to know about that subject off the top of their head?

CANAPES, CONFERENCES AND CLASS DISCRIMINATION – ACADEMIA IN 2017

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #LiberateMyDegree, academia, academic culture, accessibility, Aristotle, assessment, BME, BME academics, bursaries, casualisation, class, conferences, curricula, disability, disabled academics, discrimination, diversity, education, erasure, exclusion, hidden costs, higher education, history, legislation, Lisa McKenzie, Louise Richardson, LSE, middle class, minority groups, NUS, politics, postgraduate, poverty fund, psychology, recognition, Sally Hunt, scholarships, sexual harassment, state funding, student support, subsidies, truth, UCU, understanding, universities, VC salaries, Vice Chancellors, women academics, workers rights, working class, working class erasure, working class movement.

by Bradley Allsop

CW: mentions sexual harassment

A teacake and a portable phone charger. Unlikely objects to trigger a tirade against the state of academic practices in the UK, but here you are, about to read one anyway.

WHITEWASHING OF MENTAL HEALTH

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged disability, eurocentric, LGBT+, lgbtQ+, LGBTQIA+, mental health, mental illness, people of colour, POC, police, police brutality, psychology, queer, race, racism, therapy, white washing.

By Julian Canlas

TW: Mental health, racialised violence, racism

The first session at the psychotherapist is always tough. Your psychiatrist is a lanky white man presumably in his 50s. There’s a mosaic of framed medical certificates hanging behind his desk. You’re an 18-year old brown-skinned boy slumped back on this armchair that’s supposed to feel comfortable, but really the fake leather sticks coldly against your sweaty back. He asks about various aspects of your life to get a better evaluation: family history, school, suicide, self-harm, homelessness. He tries to sound nice—this condescendingly sweet falsetto undermined by the mechanical typing in of your diagnosis. Every time you spill yourself, you feel the room closing in.Continue Reading

DIRTY LITTLE SECRET

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged art, artist, Blur, BPD, colors, colours, depression, dirty, disability, disorder, font, guilt, health, illness, melt, mental health, mental illness, Mind, orginal art, psychiatry, psychology, rough, SAD, secret, shame, shaming, stigma, unfinished.

by Asia Patel
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EQUALIMANIA

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged affect, corporate, depression, Disney, emotion, feelings, feminism, freud, gender, gendering, Inside Out, intersectionality, kyriarchy, lad culture, lech, Lucy Prebble, mental health, mental illness, patriarchy, pay gap, Pixar, predator, Priyanga Burford, psychology, sexism, The Effect, Tullett Prebon, Wipro, women, workplace.

by Sunetra Senior

For my first article, I thought it would be fitting to explore the relationship between two neglected areas of society that I feel passionately about: the representation of women and mental health issues. Deep down, the thought of a connection existing between emotionality and the female sex might evoke those uncomfortable, backward cultural connotations – women as fragile, women as prone to hysteria, and on the softer side of it, women as the ‘gentler’ sex.

However, bringing Freud into the discussion in general might not be so wrong because the real problem, the ongoing obstacle for both those with depression, bipolar, borderline personality disorder and the whole host of legitimate clinical disorders that I couldn’t possibly all list here, and the limitations that women still face day-to-day, is the wider, ideological practice of repression: namely society’s refusal to acknowledge the significance of psychology itself. Continue Reading

LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX: THE INSTITUTE OF SEXOLOGY AND SEX IN THE AFTERNOON

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged exhibition, feminism, Institute of Sexology, london, Marie Stopes, mysogyny, performance, poetry, psychology, review, sex, Sex in The Afternoon, sexology, sexuality, Sigmund Freud, Wellcome collection, women, writing.

by Carmina Masoliver

I didn’t know what to expect from The Institute of Sexology, exhibited at the Wellcome Collection, but it was probably not the mass of phallic and explicit penis-shaped trinkets, supposedly associated with power. What would have been nice is the inclusion of similar vagina-inspired adornments. Nevertheless, it was bound to be that an exhibition about sex would highlight patriarchal power and women’s submissive role throughout history.

psychology

WELL-BEING FIRST: THINKING HEALTHY IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: A REPRESSED SUPERPOWER, PART II

Both Analytical and Emotional Intelligence

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: A REPRESSED SUPERPOWER, PART I

NO, YOU’RE NOT A FRAUD – IMPOSTER SYNDROME IN HE

CANAPES, CONFERENCES AND CLASS DISCRIMINATION – ACADEMIA IN 2017

WHITEWASHING OF MENTAL HEALTH

DIRTY LITTLE SECRET

EQUALIMANIA

LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX: THE INSTITUTE OF SEXOLOGY AND SEX IN THE AFTERNOON

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