THE PSYCHOLOGIST : Geoff Gallop: The only Australian suffering depression

Geoff Gallop: The only Australian suffering depression

I wasn't going to say anything about Geoff Gallop quitting politics because of depression, save to say while I am glad the communist scum has gone, his possible replacements are just as bad.

But I can't remain silent any longer. What has pissed me off is not so much he himself, but all the bullshit being spewed out by morons about how brave and courageous he is for coming out and admitting depression.

Boo hoo hoo. He is suffering depression. Boo hoo hoo.

Yeah it must be really depressing trying to work out what to do with the millions he has stolen from WA taxpayers.

And oh yes, how brave and courageous to quit your job and have nothing but your multi-million dollar politician superannuation package to depend on and sustain you.

All this support for his "bravery" flowing in is pathetic. “Oh no! Poor Geoff Gallop has depression and admits to it. Let’s all fellate him.” Why it's almost as if nobody else has ever suffered depression... (Much like it surprised me to learn that Kylie Minogue was the only woman to suffer breast cancer...)

Guess what morons? More than 800,000 Australians a year are suffering depression. I myself have been suffering depression for most of the past 11 years. About six years ago I was probably at my worst. Things improved for awhile (in comparison to that point anyway) but about two and half to three years ago I found myself right back down there again. I had some decisions to make at that point and while it wasn't always smooth sailing, things started moving in an upward trend. The last six or seven months have been really good, so much so I think I might have beaten it for good... touch wood.

Did I get to go see taxpayer funded doctors to talk about it? No. I had to pay to see my doctor and psychologist...sorry...Cognitive Behaviour Therapist was the pompous title he gave himself I think……(and as I have said before, I got more benefit and therapy out of The Asylum than I did from him)

Did I get access to a multi-million dollar superannuation package to support me so I could quit my job and focus all my attention on getting better? Nope.

I didn't get to do those things and neither do most of the 800,000 Australians suffering depression. I, like them, had to keep working to be able to afford to pay for my treatment.

If being depressed and admitting to it is all it takes to be applauded for being brave and courageous – well where’s my standing ovation? I deserve more than applause and I’ll explain why.

My dosage on one of the anti-depressants I was taking was getting up really high and didn't seem to be helping the depression at all. I discussed this with my doctor and he agreed we should try another one so started bringing my dosage down in order to swap to a different anti-depressant. One day I am reading an article about a woman who was on a high dose of anti-depressants and had a psychotic breakdown and killed her kids or tried to or something equally horrible and later in the article it mentions both the anti-depressant and the dosage. And fuck me – it was the same one I was taking a really high dosage of and my dosage at its peak was about 100mg more than hers was!

So not only did I battle (and apparently beat) depression, I did it while taking a high dosage of an anti-depressants known to cause psychotic episodes at high dosage levels (albeit rarely, less than 1:1000 I think was the finding) and never actually having one. (Though some might argue that point)

Since all the dipshits out there are falling over themselves to congratulate Gallop on how brave he is, doesn't my achievement warrant it even more?

Of course not. Because I didn't do anything brave or courageous. I, like most of the 800,000 other Australians, simply got on with life while undergoing treatment.

(Also because I don't want praise from dipshits. If you really want to help out, just shut up and stop being such aggravating morons. I know you most likely aren't the cause, but being such aggravating morons, you are not helping. Be kind and give depression sufferers one less reason to think "why bother?")

I was just an ordinary person battling depression and I was nothing different from any of the almost one million other Australians suffering depression. And Geoff Gallop is also nothing different from any of the others suffering depression.

He’s is no more brave or courageous than any one of them - most of them suffering it without being able to quit their jobs and survive. All you dipshits polishing his knob over this would do well to remember that.

So wish him well if you desire, spare a thought for all the other depression sufferers, and then shut the hell up about how brave and courageous this or that particular sufferer is and let all sufferers get on with trying to overcome it.

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The essence of conservatism is caution. The essence of Leftism is anger

This blog is written solely by John Ray, who has a Ph.D. degree in psychology and 200+ papers published in the academic journals of the social sciences. It does occasionally comment on issues in psychology but is mainly aimed at giving a conservative psychologist's view on a broad range of topics. There are very few conservative psychologists.

The blog originated in Australia and many (but not most) posts discuss Australian matters. Australians have an unusually good awareness of events outside their own country. Australian newspapers feature news from Britain and the USA not as an afterthought but as a major part of their coverage. So Australians do tend to have a truly Western heart, which is the reason behind the old name for this blog. So events in Australia, Britain and the USA all feature frequently here, plus occasional coverage of other places, particularly Israel.

A primer in American politics for non-Americans:

SCOTUS is the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court in the land

The "GOP" stands for "Grand Old Party" and refers to the Republican party. The GOP is at present center/Right, while the Democrats have been undergoing a steady drift Leftwards and now have policies similar to mainstream European Leftist parties.

The ideological identity of both parties has however been very fluid -- almost reversing itself over time. In the mid 19th century, the GOP was the party of big government and concern for minorities while the Democrats advertised themselves as "The party of the white man" -- an orientation that lasted into the mid 20th century in the South. The Democrats are still obsessed with race but have now flipped into support for discrimination AGAINST whites.

Was Pope Urban VIII the first Warmist? Below we see him refusing to look through Galileo's telescope. People tend to refuse to consider evidence— if what they might discover contradicts what they believe.

Global warming

Calibrated in whole degrees. Larger graph here

Climate scientist Lennart Bengtsson said. “The warming we have had the last 100 years is so small that if we didn’t have meteorologists and climatologists to measure it we wouldn’t have noticed it at all.”

The term "Fascism" is mostly used by the Left as a brainless term of abuse. But when they do make a serious attempt to define it, they produce very complex and elaborate definitions -- e.g. here and here. In fact, Fascism is simply extreme socialism plus nationalism. But great gyrations are needed to avoid mentioning the first part of that recipe, of course.

Two examples of Leftist racism below (much more here and here):

Beatrice Webb, a founder of the London School of Economics and the Fabian Society, and married to a Labour MP, mused in 1922 on whether when English children were "dying from lack of milk", one should extend "the charitable impulse" to Russian and Chinese children who, if saved this year, might anyway die next. Besides, she continued, there was "the larger question of whether those races are desirable inhabitants" and "obviously" one wouldn't "spend one's available income" on "a Central African negro".

Hugh Dalton, offered the Colonial Office during Attlee's 1945-51 Labour government, turned it down because "I had a horrid vision of pullulating, poverty stricken, diseased nigger communities, for whom one can do nothing in the short run and who, the more one tries to help them, are querulous and ungrateful."

Defensible and indefensible usages of the term "racism"

The book, The authoritarian personality, authored by T.W. Adorno et al. in 1950, has been massively popular among psychologists. It claims that a set of ideas that were popular in the "Progressive"-dominated America of the prewar era were "authoritarian". Leftist regimes always are authoritarian so that claim was not a big problem. What was quite amazing however is that Adorno et al. identified such ideas as "conservative". They were in fact simply popular ideas of the day but ones that had been most heavily promoted by the Left right up until the then-recent WWII. See here for details of prewar "Progressive" thinking.

R.I.P. Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet deposed a law-defying Marxist President at the express and desperate invitation of the Chilean parliament. He pioneered the free-market reforms which Reagan and Thatcher later unleashed to world-changing effect. That he used far-Leftist methods to suppress far-Leftist violence is reasonable if not ideal. The Leftist view that they should have a monopoly of violence and that others should follow the law is a total absurdity which shows only that their hate overcomes their reason

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a war criminal. Both British and American codebreakers had cracked the Japanese naval code so FDR knew what was coming at Pearl Harbor. But for his own political reasons he warned no-one there. So responsibility for the civilian and military deaths at Pearl Harbor lies with FDR as well as with the Japanese. The huge firepower available at Pearl Harbor, both aboard ship and on land, could have largely neutered the attack. Can you imagine 8 battleships and various lesser craft firing all their AA batteries as the Japanese came in? The Japanese naval airforce would have been annihilated and the war would have been over before it began.

FDR prolonged the Depression. He certainly didn't cure it.

WWII did NOT end the Great Depression. It just concealed it. It in fact made living standards worse

Joe McCarthy was eventually proved right after the fall of the Soviet Union. To accuse anyone of McCarthyism is to accuse them of accuracy!

The KKK was intimately associated with the Democratic party. They ATTACKED Republicans!

People who mention differences in black vs. white IQ are these days almost universally howled down and subjected to the most extreme abuse. I am a psychometrician, however, so I feel obliged to defend the scientific truth of the matter:

The average African adult has about the same IQ as an average white 11-year-old and African Americans (who are partly white in ancestry) average out at a mental age of 14. The American Psychological Association is generally Left-leaning but it is the world's most prestigious body of academic psychologists. And even they have had to concede that sort of gap (one SD) in black vs. white average IQ. 11-year olds can do a lot of things but they also have their limits and there are times when such limits need to be allowed for.

America's uncivil war was caused by trade protectionism. The slavery issue was just camouflage, as Abraham Lincoln himself admitted. See also here

Did William Zantzinger kill poor Hattie Carroll?

Did Bismarck predict where WWI would start or was it just a "free" translation by Churchill?

Leftist psychologists have an amusingly simplistic conception of military organizations and military men. They seem to base it on occasions they have seen troops marching together on parade rather than any real knowledge of military men and the military life. They think that military men are "rigid" -- automatons who are unable to adjust to new challenges or think for themselves. What is incomprehensible to them is that being kadaver gehorsam (to use the extreme Prussian term for following orders) actually requires great flexibility -- enough flexibility to put your own ideas and wishes aside and do something very difficult. Ask any soldier if all commands are easy to obey.

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