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There's many forms of mental illness so there is know telling how each person will act

There are many forms but having a mental illness doesnt take away common decency

I think she definately has issues. Its BB I feel nost upset at, if Linda told Liz that she had cut herself - this apparently is true according to Lizs column today, Linda should have been removed from the house.

I'm not sure how honest HMs have been with BB about mental health issues, though. I take your point about medication, but in Celeb BB, do we really know that BB knows everything they brought in? Did BB know everything Lauren brought into the previous CBB, for example?


Depressed, maybe; paranoid, no. Where are you getting that from?

One wonders if the assessment is adequate. Some psychologists have expressed concerns about the ethics of BB since the early days and even later. These articles pertain to some of those concerns re the housemates mental health/welfare

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5008062.stm

2006 Concerns - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1526...chologist.html

2 of the shows psychologists investigated for alleged misconduct here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/me...er-711122.html

One of the Psychologists was dismissed from his University post and is appealing against this at the moment. It was pertaining to his media work according to some articles about this.

There is a lot of information via search engines pertaining to mental health and welfare for the contestants, one psychologist left after only 2 shows because of concerns that the producers weren't interested in this

BB producers have a Duty of Care to housemates. A risk assessment for mental health and stress issues should ideally be conducted prior to entry and certainly at stages during the show or if circumstances change.

In the early days the psychologists assessed people prior to entry and monitored them during the programme. They were also debriefed on leaving the house and offered aftercare if needed. I wonder if this is happening now.

In light of Linda Nolans allegations in the paper today I really do think BB producers need to tighten up in this respect and rethink the assessment of contestants before, during and after the show

I feel sorry for Linda, she is a joyless, miserable woman, she claims
to have loved her time in the house, well it didn't show it. She really needs to move on.

Oh don't give her something else to blame Jim for - he only met her 3 times in his life bloody hell she is obsessed

Hope his lawyers have warned her trying to destroy him

I don't care about her obsession with Jim. If it wasn't him it could have been someone else. She just seem a bit unhinged. And what if she's mentally ill? I do say we should probably not be so harsh.

I am copying and pasting this post from another thread which was closed earlier, as I feel it answers your point in bold.

I find it so incredulous that people get so outraged by others' opinions on someone who has openly gone on a reality tv show and acted so bitterly hostile towards another contestant due to a grievance over 30 years old! She is not the only person ever to suffer from cancer and bereavement, and while I don't wish anything bad on the woman, she really needs to realise that having suffered these things does not give her free license to do and say what she likes without criticism. By going on CBB and subsequently to the papers makes her fair game for whatever flak people choose to give her. In all honesty, I think Linda Nolan should have steered well clear of all this, she is obviously in no fit state mentally to be on it. IMO of course!

Really? well that is shocking if true

So harsh as to call her "unhinged"?

Well it is what it is. Not sure what you can and cant say. Just saying if she truly has a mental illness i see no need to abuse her or pick hole sin things she says or does.

Not from me you didn't.

My only issue with what you were saying was that you thought it would be therapeutic (my word) for her to be a foster mother.

I disagreed then and still do.

She's got no business trying to help mend the lives of young (often damaged) kids until she's further down the road of the journey to mend her own.

Not saying you can't say it, just that if I thought people should think or speak less harshly of someone I wouldn't call them unhinged in the same breath.

This!

Linda's issue with Jim has nothing to do with mental illness. That clash was very real. Her coping strategy being self-harm is another matter though.