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Age 55-64
Interview 31  

Interview 31

Age at Interview: 55
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 51
Background: Has two grown children and a new partner with a 12y/o son. He suffered a manic episode in 2000 at a time he was a 'workaholic' and life seemed out of control. He went into hospital voluntarily.
Brief outline:Avoided medication but found help at a mental health 'drop in' centre. He became better informed and used creativity (e.g. computer art and music) to help his recovery.


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Says that The Sun newspaper got lots of complaints when it described the boxer Frank Bruno as 'bonkers'.

 



I think that lobby groups are tending to change things because we had an issue with Frank Bruno. You heard the story that there where a lot of people who bombarded the Sun newspaper with e-mails saying, "You know it's not acceptable to talk about 'bonkers' nowadays, and you know, the attitude, do you realise you're actually offending twenty-five percent of your readership"? [Laugh]. Effectively you know, if you think about it. So you know that kind of there's more sort of pressure perhaps to stop people being, well to get people to be a little bit more... I don't really like "politically correct" but that sort of thing you know. And there's various taboos, you can't be sexist, you can't be racist you can't be ageism or you can be a little bit ageist but you know it's getting that way. But you can still talk about nutters and psychos and so on. And so it's getting to a stage where those sort of words as well you know, what do you mean by that when you use that word you know?
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