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Rod Liddle

The ME lobby is just a symptom of our stupidity about mental illness

The poisonous emails, the threats, the rage – it’s all rooted in our crude attitude to psychiatric suffering

7 November 2015

9:00 AM

7 November 2015

9:00 AM

Do you ever wake up worried that you have tiny fibres growing beneath your skin, all along your spinal column? Possibly wriggling little fibres, placed there by the government or by aliens? By aliens I don’t mean asylum seekers but proper aliens, quite probably creatures with bifurcated tongues and scaly lips from the Planet Zog.

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