Charles and Camilla

Anniebach You can always Google the term if you are having difficulties.
what do you call people in a wheelchair

Blinko
That's OK
It was me who mentioned her in the first place - just to [confuse] everyone of course!

I do know that if ever I am in Australia there are often outrageous stories about our RF doing the rounds and people have asked me 'is it true that .......?' - as if I'm on chatting terms with them.

EllanVann, what do you call people in a wheelchair?

Do you not want to admit your description of a sufferer of
Schizophrenia was cruel or is it your everyday description of mental health sufferers ?

Hi Jalima, there were one or two people who mentioned a Princess Mary during this thread. I just remembered exactly as you pointed out, an Australian princess marrying a European Crown Prince. No offence

It's not me who's taking the posts seriously HOTMT.
I'm surprised by the many who are ready to pounce------or am I ?

EllanVannin Stop thinking and posting as an individual.
Wear a woollen blend sackcloth, practice bleating and post in correlation with the pack.
I think “ bullying “ is a bit over the top.
For a start, you would have to take the posts seriously to suffer that emotion.

I hated the place. No cutlery/crockery was allowed and I carried a bunch of keys only seen by a prison warden, as every door and " cell " had to be locked after you.
My argument at the time was that depressives were mixed with women who were dangerous.

Chances of being killed by a person suffering from schizophrenia are on in 14 million.

I was a nurse Lily65 on a ward with very violent women until I went back to general nursing.
Paraldehyde injections were given when a patient was " out of hand and running amok". It was the only way of calming them down.
Schizophrenics today are given monthly injections in case they miss oral doses--------and they have been known to kill/murder.

I worked in a large psychiatric hospital in the early 60s, things were certainly different then. I would like to think we treated our patients with care and compassion. Fortunately paraldehyde was being phased out by then. Patients did exhibit more florid symptoms then as the anti psychotic medication we have now was only just on the market. Thankfully now with the majority of people attitudes to mental illness have changed for the better.

Were you really a nurse EV?

I don't think most people suffering from schizoaffective disorder need an injection to stop them killing people.

You can't type such an inflammatory, insensitive post and not expect people to get annoyed EllanVannin and that most certainly isn't bullying, as you are now hiding your comments behind. Thank God those hellish days you describe in your day are no more. We treat the poor souls with more compassion now

Ellan stop digging yourself a hole by trying to justify your comments, they were offence and out of order. Just accept it.

Yes EllanVannin I can believe you worked in an Asylum in the fifties , you use terms for mental illness which thank God those who work in mental health now are far more understanding and wouldn’t use such terms.

Having respect for those who suffer from mental illness doesn’t take ‘walking on eggshells ‘ .

Blinko did you mean me when you referred to they?

Jalima1108

I don't need you giving your sixpenn'orth either ICAN !
That's 3 of you which nearly amounts to bullying.
I only need to be told once---------thankyou very much !!

EllanVannin, you get pulled up because you are offensive towards people who have this terrible affliction. We all have sympathy for the carers but that doesn't mean we have to describe the patients as mad as a box of frogs. Jeez, you're insensitive.

Prince Philip's mother was a very brave woman who rescued many Jews from the Nazis, EllanVannin, putting her own life in danger.

Princess Mary is a lovely Australian girl who fell in love with a young Danish man who was visiting Australia.
She didn't realise he was the Crown Prince of Denmark until later.
She is now Crown Princess Mary of Denmark - Australia's very own Princess.

I was in a shop recently where the magazines were on display by the checkout queue.
One stood out as it was said that Camilla had warned Meghan's mother to keep her hands off "my man" presumably Charles.
This was after it had been reported she was staying at Sandringham for Christmas.

Those who know me accept me for what I am and wouldn't dream of pulling me up.

Probably because they're giving you a wide berth.

The sympathy I have is for all carers of those with this dreadful illness where psychotic attacks can appear out of the blue in those whose medication is either not taken or reduced for some unknown reason.

Why should I have to walk on eggshells ? Those who know me accept me for what I am and wouldn't dream of pulling me up.
Different mindsets for different areas of the country, eh ?

I've worked in a mental hospital, known in my day as an asylum and in the 50's things were a lot different back then when schizophrenics were seen " in all their glory " and hastily treated by a paraldehyde injection before they killed someone !!

My daughter has schizophrenia and believe me Ellan it's no joke. If anyone described her as "mad as a box of frogs" I'd slap them silly. Think before you type

You don't think before you type though, Ellan. I commented on what I thought was unfair criticism of an OP on another thread (a while ago) and although others agreed with me you suggested our minds needed altering.

That's the kind of statement that could seriously upset somebody.

I chose to ignore it.