Such a classic
Published:
January 6, 2012 at 10:17pm
From a report on timesofmalta.com:
When earlier today, PBS tried to get a comment on camera from Dr Debono, the Nationalist MP only allowed the crew to film his school certificate, which he said, showed who he really was and that, contrary to what was being said in some blogs, he did not need a psychiatrist.
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I wonder why all this fuss by Dr. Debono when a few weeks ago he was bragging how he could easily go to Italy.
But perhaps they only accept your kindergarten Humpty-Dumptey drawing there, not your secondary school report card.
A couple of weeks ago, he vouched that he will never cause the government to fall, now he is threatening just that.
An individual who has a problem and recognises it can be helped and can continue to function.
An individual who not only does not recognise his problem and moreover denies having one, belongs to a small room with rubber padded walls.
Patients from Mount Carmel Hospital who got an A in their A Levels should be discharged immediately. This is how Franco Debono sees it.
It would be funny were it not so tragic.
This appears to be a classic textbook case of psychosis.
What a tragedy.
A tragedy for Malta.
All Malta needs a psychiatrist, except Franco.
This in itself continues to manifest his narcissistic traits.
One important point to be highlighted from this story is the fact that good academic certificates hves nothing to do with mental health.
Regretfully, the general perception is that people with mental health problems are predominantly less intelligent and with limited academic capabilities. This is false.
All people, irrespective of their academic potential, are susceptible to mental illness.
After all these years, still a nerd.
They’re coming to take me away haha, they’re coming to take me away…..
Can’t see the connection. Actually it reinforces his need to see a psychiatrist. Maybe he should contact Angelik’s for some worthy advice.
jew Yoda.
No, not a psychiatrist but a good thrashing from the headmaster.
In doing this, he provided proof that he NEEDS a psychiatrist after all.
I misplaced mine (school certificate) by the way…..I would have put a copy of it on Facebook.
The difference between Franco Debono and God is that God does not think he is Franco Debono.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4
From timesofmalta.com:
“Dr Gonzi said that God forbid a Prime Minister took his decisions on how to form cabinet according to how an MP dictated.
“My intention is not to keep anyone happy like a schoolboy. My interest is the country.”
I think the rest of the PN MPs and all the PN councillors and anyone else who is anyone in the PN should all sign a petition asking for Franco Debono to resign immediately from Parliament and expressing their trust in the Prime Minister.
He should be made to realise that Franco Debono is not backed by anyone else within the party – that he is alone and friendless.
If he wants to cross sides, he will then have to play second fiddle directly to his nemesis, little Joey.
He is an awful character, and he really needs to know it.
And they should all de-Friend him on Facebook.
Freud’s stage 2: Anal Stage
“The second stage of psychosexual development is the anal stage, spanning from the age of 15 months to three years, wherein the infant’s erogenous zone changes from the mouth (the upper digestive tract) to the anus (the lower digestive tract), while the ego formation continues.
Toilet training is the child’s key anal-stage experience, occurring at about the age of two years, and results in conflict between the Id (demanding immediate gratification) and the Ego (demanding delayed gratification) in eliminating bodily wastes, and handling related activities (e.g. manipulating excrement, coping with parental demands).
The style of parenting influences the resolution of the Id–Ego conflict, which can be either gradual and psychologically uneventful, or which can be sudden and psychologically traumatic.
The ideal resolution of the Id–Ego conflict is in the child’s adjusting to moderate parental demands that teach the value and importance of physical cleanliness and environmental order, thus producing a self-controlled adult.
Yet, if the parents make immoderate demands of the child, by over-emphasizing toilet training, it might lead to the development of a compulsive personality, a person too concerned with neatness and order.
If the child obeys the Id, and the parents yield, he or she might develop a self-indulgent personality characterized by personal slovenliness and environmental disorder. If the parents respond to that, the child must comply, but might develop a weak sense of Self, because it was the parents’ will, and not the child’s ego, who controlled the toilet training.”
Precisely!
It was like “Franco’s got Talent” on PBS news tonight.
And after we see his school certificate how are we supposed to feel? Impressed?
Can visualize him right now. Curled up in a tearful foetal position on his bed, mommy gently stroking his locks.
Delusional twit.
The impression is that no one who is close to him feels the need to tell him in no uncertain terms to grow up and stop making a spectacle of himself.
At the rate he is going, it is not just HIS political career that he has destroyed.
High time he realised that with or without him, the sun will still rise and set and life will go on.
NO ONE is indispensable, and certainly not the Hon Franco Debono.
I was going to ask, where are his family and his close friends? But I guess any advice is useless because for the likes of Franco Debono, it is all about him.
They’re part of the problem or, at least, his mother is. Here she is at 14″ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2U7bPnafHI
Asked to contribute a photo of her son, she supplied one showing Franco in his baby walker. She’s full of him – clearly providing the narcissistic supply he needs. No wonder he never left home.
It must be a riot being his girlfriend. He’s such a ball of fun.
Is he sad, mad or bad?
Is he sick, thick, or just a prick?
All three.
Did anyone notice it was his Form II certificate from 1987, and not even his Form V report? His grades must have gone down then.
So the prat ranks a form II report above everything else he’s done since he was 12?
He’s even more cracked than I’d thought.
He wants to go there, it’s where he had an equal footing with Joseph.
Lawrence Gonzi is the one spoiling his design, to be removed at all costs. All the technical legalese a show of mental prowess and bravura.
Scary, makes a good episode of Altered Statesmen.
It looks well worn. He must examine it obsessively every night.
It’s nearly three decades old and qualifies as a historical document – the one that proved Franco’s nuts.
Someone commented on this blog that Debono showed his report to Eddie Fenech Adami and had a moan about Joseph Muscat overtaking him when he had such a good report.
Now it’s been transformed into The Certificate That Shows I Do Not Need A Psychiatrist.
There’s a movie in this somewhere, but I won’t be paying to see it.
Many people with narcissistic personality disorder aim for high positions and get them because they are charming and can be very intelligent but they lack empathy, affect and foresight since their need to be perceived as superheroes take over rational thought.
Franco Debono thinks that showing a Form II school report to the TV cameras proves that he’s not in need of help. It proves the opposite.
The need for a psychiatrist, sometimes, does not mean that the person is out of his mind. People who suffer from schizoid personality disorder, for example, could be brilliantly intelligent and know perfectly well what they are doing.
It’s not enough to say X needs a psychiatrist and therefore he has to shut up. What is the diagnosis? What type of personality disorder are we speaking about?
Showing a school report to the TV cameras does not necessarily indicate a man who has gone crackers.
It’s more like vanity.
My oldest son has always been ”il-bravu tal-klassi”. But I have no wish to invite PBS crew at my house to show off whilst displaying his primary school reports on TV.
I really hate rat races. And can’t stand a mediocre teacher who supports them.
But, for God’s sake, Franco Debono is not an eleven-year-old. When I saw all those ‘very goods’ and ‘excellent’ and 80s and 90s I said: is this some kind of a sick joke? Is he still considering Il-Ginger as his school rival? O Madonna!
In what way is a school certificate obtained years ago evidence of sanity? It’s even crazy to think that.