Archive for March, 2008

I work with lots of people that blush in social circumstances and meet lots of people that are incredibly shy and wish to overcome it and behave differently in social circumstances… The BBC are reporting that shyness is on the verge of being an official illness and some schools of thought believe that certain anti-depressant drugs are the cure… What?! What?! What?!

Ok, this is unbelievable and typical of how we as a society are choosing to deal with things that are relatively simple to overcome. By classing it as an illness, labelling it, giving a prescription ‘cure’ is simply going to make things worse in my opinion. I am going to make a statement that is going to agitate some people, upset others and may make me appear insensitive… Ready for it?….. (more…)

I spotted it yesterday, but was too busy ranting about one journalist’s depiction of hypnosis that I am a bit late on the draw with this one.

Today I join the ranks formed by The Transparent Hypnotist Ellie Blunt in her recent blog post… I am jumping on the band wagon in astonishment and in a hypnotic trance of disbelief at how utterly useless journalism is becoming.

I mean, can we call it journalism? (more…)

This full on blog title today is not my own words, they are in fact the words of Lily Allen, whose disillusionment with herself went very public when she emotionally described herself on her MySpace blog as ‘fat, ugly and shitter than Winehouse’. Not the best endorsement for herself… Though things have changed since she had hypnotherapy. Though I am going to rant like crazy about her hypnotherapist today… (more…)