From the Mail today:
The American ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health’ (DSM) which apparently is a worldwide ‘bible’ for those that treat mental health problems, has had a major re-write.
Because of this the parameters for ‘mental illness’ have been so greatly widened that the suggestion is that no one can be considered ‘normal’!
In my case I hold my hands up willingly………….but must now smile gently and knowingly………….
every time I see a politician. (and/or NHS Trust Treasurers – see below!)
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Bikes are in the news today as the Post Office says it’ll have to phase them out on health and safety grounds.
It should be fun on e-bay for a few weeks as there are about 14,000 such (redundant) bikes…….each probably ‘a collectors item’ but ‘buyer to collect’ as postmen find assembled bikes difficult to carry!?
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Scientists have apparently discovered a distant meteorite that could be on a 2180 collision course with earth.
Watchout for a ‘Meteor Avoidance Tax’ being imposed from now on. A Meteor Evasion Tax would of course be illegal!
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I read today that an NHS ‘manager’, called-in to save one of the trusts money, cost them £319.30 per hour plus £25.00p per hour expenses for 97 days! (I worked-out the figures without a calculator from daily/yearly figures published in Mail.)
Needless to say my Price for work will rise in accordance and I suggest other entrepreneurs follow suit.
Mmmm, I ask myself, have the re-writers of the DSM got a point?