Jack Monroe #59 - 300 jobbos, 3,000 doggos, one rambling potato bloggo

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She does realise that most people can’t afford to go private right? I mean, would this not be the perfect opportunity for her to highlight the plight of lower income MH sufferers who CANNOT access decent and suitable care and have to wait until they are LITERALLY in crisis, by which time it often just becomes about s****de prevention and not about the underlying issues? This would be perfect for Jack as poverty is her “niche”. The inability of the poor (and even not so poor) to access proper MH care on the NHS is one of the biggest scandals and injustices of our time, imo. Could Jack move the spotlight away from herself for a second to talk about that?
Er, no.
I would have thought that going privately for mental health issues would be extortionate because these are issues which take a long time to monitor, manage and possibly resolve. Also, any prescriptions would be private, rather than NHS.
 
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She even admitted this I think, in some long-deleted tweet, that weight loss was due to ADHD meds, and it set off some arguing on Twitter when other people jumped in saying they wished they could lose weight that way. Does anyone else remember this? Then she decided the weight loss was due to the break up.
At one point she also said that the weight loss was due to a “mild relapse” (didn’t specify on what). Who knows what the truth is, this is Jack, it’s whatever suits her at the time!
 
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I'm seeking a diagnosis for ADHD and I've seen from the forums etc that this is a common side affect, because you lose any desire to eat. Not that JM has mentioned this?

And a GP wouldn't put you on any ADHD medication, or take you off it, so there's holes in her story. Surprise surprise.
They do suppress your appetite but it plateaued for me and only lasted a few weeks before my eating was back to normal. My meds are still prescribed by my ADHD nurse practitioner while I'm titrating and trying to find the optimum dose however I'll be handed back to my GP soon and they will take over my prescriptions from then on. Jack did mention the meds/weight loss thing on twitter a few weeks ago but unfortunately has since deleted those tweets so I'm not able to post screenshots.
 
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Could Jack move the spotlight away from herself for a second to talk about that?
No, because in Jack's world nobody else exists. Life revolves solely around Jack - she is the only person.
 
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They do suppress your appetite but it plateaued for me and only lasted a few weeks before my eating was back to normal. My meds are still prescribed by my ADHD nurse practitioner while I'm titrating and trying to find the optimum dose however I'll be handed back to my GP soon and they will take over my prescriptions from then on. Jack did mention the meds/weight loss thing on twitter a few weeks ago but unfortunately has since deleted those tweets so I'm not able to post screenshots.
I'm hoping to be on them soon and have been looking into it all, so yeah she could be on a shared care agreement but as you're obviously aware titrating takes time, and isn't done by a GP. It didn't take me long to resarch all this when I finally admitted something wasn't right, which is why this just doesn't add up (in terms of the chemical rollercoaster being directed by her GP if its ADHD related)
 
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I can't compete with IndigoStar's excellent re-write of 'Up The Junction', but today I was listening to Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway To Heaven' and I thought I'd try a rewrite for Jack. (Apologies to Messrs Page and Plant).

Stairway To Celebrity

There’s a lady who is sure
She won’t ever be poor
Jack Monroe is the name
She goes under

Her fans can’t see
That their bank accounts
She will plunder

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
And she’s buying the stairway to celebrity

If it’s poverty, it sells
Pays for Edinburgh hotels,
A Magic Blender and Cotswold shelves

There’s an Emin on the wall
But she wants to be sure
Cos you know these things
Are worth a few bob
In a crappy bungalow in Southend
There’s a garden shed
Which will be a tv studio
In the end

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
And she’s buying the stairway to celebrity

If there’s a bustle in your kitchen
Don’t be alone there
It’s just a tin of rinsed baked beans
Yes, there are two paths Jack could go by
But, in the long run
Tip jars and Patreon will have won

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
And she’s buying the stairway to celebrity



Cooking food which no one with normal tastebuds would want to eat. Rinsing baked beans. Putting tinned peaches in a curry.
Superb! I have competition 😂

Imagining her running down Princes St in her thirst bra, clutching a Nutribullet.
Here comes Jackie Bean again 🎶 🎶
 
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Piglet Polenta 😀 no pepper or butter, he goes crazy for it! Tried to do the hands thing but my tongue isn't long enough and also ewwwww....considered asking husband to do it but I would never hear the end of it, also he has tattoos which could assist in triangulation.

ETA no longer a new member- like it!
 

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Nigella made some polenta mash on one of her TV shows yesterday lunchtime. Just saying...
 
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I find the photos where it's getting naked for mental health/animal welfare/etc all tap straight into and fuel misogyny. As though the only way a woman is worth giving attention to and maybe even reading about the point she's claiming to make (yeah, right, as if 90% of views are going to do anything of the sort) is if she looks fuckable with her clothes off.
 
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One of Caitlin Moran’s good points is that if they wouldn’t ask a man to do something (at work) don’t do it.
 
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All caught up. :)

On mental health and MH services. When I was at my worst I went to the doctor's who prescribed me one type of SSRI and put me on the (6-9 month) waiting list for CBT. The first week on the SSRI (sertraline) was awful - but then it settled down. I think it had some impact but sadly it also increased my appetite and the weight gain I had after nearly a year on it meant I decide to come off. The CBT was useful but it was like sticking plaster. I've managed to get bits and pieces of short term therapy through work or some MH charities, which have also helped me understand more about myself and my family and helped me get through some difficult times. A year or two after I came off sertraline I was having another MH dip and the Dr tried me on fluoxetine. I tried to stick with it for a while but when I told them it seemed to make me incredibly tired all the time I came off it.

So no cocktails of drugs from the NHS GP and no immediate counselling help. I've finally managed to get long-term therapy through a service that offers low-cost sessions but that's after about 4 years of trying to find something.
 
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As though the only way a woman is worth giving attention to and maybe even reading about the point she's claiming to make (yeah, right, as if 90% of views are going to do anything of the sort) is if she looks fuckable with her clothes off.
But there's a certain type of woman who chooses to behave/depict herself like this. Look at Jack's kitten/"porny" video - it was creepy. And have you heard about Diane Downs? Farrah Fawcett played her in a film - if you ever see it, watch the end scene in the police van. It's textbook sociopath.
 
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Louisa probably feels obliged to visit after all the manipulative bullshit Jack’s posted lately.
Yes, it's like watching a car crash. Going back, even just for a visit to check in is a mistake. The time for being friends with an ex is long after the dust has settled and all concerned have moved on emotionally. I suspect poor Louisa is too nice for her own good.
 
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But there's a certain type of woman who chooses to behave/depict herself like this. Look at Jack's kitten/"porny" video - it was creepy. And have you heard about Diane Downs? Farrah Fawcett played her in a film - if you ever see it, watch the end scene in the police van. It's textbook sociopath.
I’ve just watched that, what an evil specimen.
 
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Yes, it's like watching a car crash. Going back, even just for a visit to check in is a mistake. The time for being friends with an ex is long after the dust has settled and all concerned have moved on emotionally. I suspect poor Louisa is too nice for her own good.
All the advice is that, one one person doesn't accept the relationship is over, the best thing to do for all parties is, if at all possible, to have no contact.

Louisa isn't being kind by keeping in contact. It's just fuel in the fire
 
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Not sure I buy all this ‘poor Louisa’ stuff. She’s an adult who chose to have a relationship with somebody who behaved like a nightmare long before she met her. She chose to move in with her and her child and I imagine validated and enabled a lot of her behaviour. Some people go for that. Whoever made the comment on her insta about being single suiting her tagged Jack in it, which was unkind and unnecessary.
 
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