I appreciate that people who have never been close to psychiatric patients may not be aware of the suffering that such people go through.

A psychiatric illness is caused by no more than a chemical imbalance in the brain. It is no fault of the victim.

Unfortunately such victims than suffer the ‘crazy’ stigma that goes with the illness which makes recovery much harder.

Would you consider not contributing to the growth of this stigma in the future? Thanks.

[Daphne – I appreciate your point, but if a politician who constantly parades himself about has a personality disorder or a psychiatric illness, then we can’t be expected not to talk about it so as not to upset other people in the same situation. The stigma which psychiatric patients and those with a personality disorder suffer from is precisely because of people like this man and not because of the people who write/talk about them. The reason people are afraid of those who are mentally unwell is because mental illness affects our thoughts and behaviour in a way that physical illness does not. Again, this man is an example of that – abnormal behaviour and unpredictability are looked at as a problem because they destabilise other people and situations, unless they are properly looked after by people who care about them, which is clearly not happening in this case, making him a problem for others.]

U vera, Zaren il-King. U hemm King iehor li baqa’ l-art (tal-Mosta). Issa naraw x’hemm lest ghalih. Nahseb li x’imkien fix-xandir mhux hekk? Kemm gej hmieg dawn il-5 snin.

What about the other three stooges ?

Certifikat tal-Form 2?

Surely not?

Short memory, Pecksniff. JPO resigned from the PN.

Nuts.

Yes he came last in the MT survey.