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Let’s talk about our feelings, not label normal emotions
Psychologist Lucy Foulkes welcomes the drive to destigmatise mental illness but cautions we are in danger of labelling normal negative emotions as clinical disorders
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Suzanne Harrington
In 2008, when Lucy Foulkes was aged 20, her life looked idyllic. She had a loving family, great friends, a lovely boyfriend. At university, she was studying psychology, which she adored, and had a great summer job as a swimming instructor. There was nothing external to prompt a catastrophic mental breakdown, and yet it happened.
“I was in Turkey when everything came undone,” she writes in Losing Our Minds: What Mental Illness Really Is And What It Isn’t. Walking back to their holiday apartment after a day on the beach with close friends, “I began to feel like I couldn’t breathe. My thoughts became dark and opaque.”
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Censored: You have the right to free speech, unless you re a minority March 2, 2021 at 3:13 pm | Published in: Article, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
Freedom of speech [Wikipedia] March 2, 2021 at 3:13 pm
So there are limits to freedom of expression after all! Professor Memdani of Makarere University says it brilliantly:
Power can instrumentalise free speech to frame a minority and present it for target practice.
This dossier provides examples where points of view have been suppressed for a variety of reasons: political partisanship, in consideration of Christian and Hindu religious sensitivities, in deference to a powerful politician.
Facebook s ban on the promotion of a book on the Palestinian resistance