Dig deep for victims of utter f***ing bastard syndrome

Scott says:

06:53pm | 10/06/09

If making it a medical condition has him in line for a lobotomy, I’m all for it!

I Shortt says:

08:31pm | 10/06/09

I Googled it, and yes it does exist and is recognised in the USA’s “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”.  But I’m with you, David, so much these days which used to be called just plain bad behaviour is now medicalised in some way, so that the perpetrator becomes the victim.  ADHD (we used to call then ‘disruptive little shits’), road rage (‘ignorant hoons’), etc etc.  Its all connectred with the seeming refusal of anyone to take any responsibility for anything these days.

Well, from now on, I think I’ll go around screaming abuse at anyone who isn’t white anglo saxon, and if the politically-correct police come calling, I’ll just say that I suffer from ‘heightened socio-genetic difference awareness disorder’

lexie says:

09:53pm | 10/06/09

“By treating the offensive conduct of someone like Ramsay as a diagnosable medical condition, rather than just a shocking bit of behaviour for which he’s solely responsible, we trivialise the serious effects of genuine illnesses such as depression, “

Now you come across as looking plain stupid. Ramsay is a mysoginist prat of gigantic proportions, but going after a medically observed and recognised personality disorder is just idiotic. NPD, BPD and Sociopathic Personality Disorder have been around for yonks. Most of the prison population have them in one form or another. Its not a fashionable disease which excuses bad behaviour. It just exists and has for a long long time. These disorders are often taken into account at sentencing. They come about from a combination of nature and nurture - mostly abusive childhoods. By the time they get to adulthood they are mostly beyond help and they are not very nice people because they all lack empathy, that is, unless they choose to get help.

BTW, calling someone a narcissist is not the same as saying they have a personality disorder. It takes quite an amount of time to make that diagnosis and you have to be a qualified therapist. Grimshaw was simply being descriptive - not making an informed psychological diagnosis. Most sociopaths have elements of narcissim and borderline traits thought they can exist independently of sociopathy. Inform yourself next time. This post was just plain ignorant.

Cluster B says:

10:32pm | 10/06/09

NPD is not a new condition and has existed in the psychiatric literature for years. The arrogance, belittling of others, and similar behaviour serves to protected suffers of NPD. In reality, these individuals have a very poor self-concept such that when they criticised or their sense of entitlement is challenged, they can fall apart and become suicidal. Please do not trivialise this disorder.

Chris says:

11:19pm | 10/06/09

I don’t think David is trivialising mental illness in the slightest.

What he is trivialising is the idea that suddenly a man of Ramsey’s tenacity, success and wear-with-all could, and to be fair on Gordon so far he hasn’t, could claim that he’s suddenly the victim in this situation and that as cheeky as he already is, he might be even cheekier to appeal for leniency due to an undiagnosed mental illness that would surely only be held up in the High Court of Shelbyville.

It’s absurd.

And what’s more, it’s highly disrespectful of those true sufferers of mental illness and personality disorders, who don’t need to have their problems used as a back up plan for healthy happy individuals in the public eye who don’t seem to have the guts to admit when they’ve basically, just been a bit of a prick.

I can’t speak for the qualifications of Rob McCasker of Coomera, Qld, but I’m willing to be he’s not Ramsey’s personal therapist and proclaiming to know that Gorden is going through “mental turmoil” is undoubtedly talking completely out of his banana bending butt. And I’m willing to be most people who read that comment are too. Not all obviously, but most.

Chris says:

11:35pm | 10/06/09

ps - Ramsey’s mum seems to have stepped in and he’s unreservedly apologised:

“I’d just like to take this opportunity to apologise for the stupid comments and am deeply mortified that the whole thing has gone this far. My apologies”

and on the subject of his mum cracking out the wooden spoon:

“She was disgusted and she wanted to know what actually happened. When your mum rings you and starts giving you a bollocking down the telephone then of course you start to get the picture.’‘

The guy is clearly deranged! Crack out the white coats, he needs to be hospitalised, stat!

Good on you Gordon, looks like you do have the kahunas after all. But you’re clearly not nuts.

[From: ]http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25614334-10229,00.html]

Darren G says:

10:14am | 11/06/09

This has got to be a blueprint for PR types everywhere. Two celebs have a go at each other and you get front page promo for their shows. Woohoo!

albe says:

10:58am | 11/06/09

“Please do not trivialise this disorder.”

lol… please David, continue to trivialise this disorder and the rest of them. Much of the nonsense in the DSM these days is over-medicalising of emotion and behaviour.

Cathie says:

12:36pm | 11/06/09

Personally I think that Ramsay suffers more from Occular-Rectal Disease! (A sh*&%$y outlook on life), and is nothing more than a foul mouthed, bad tempered brat.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion on someone else, but when you’re in the public eye at least have the decency to keep your opinions to yourself, not use the public arena to vilify and humiliate someone.

I also heard on the radio this morning that the whole business of the “bollocking from his mother” was nothing more than a lie.

Pathetic little man.

Travis Bickle says:

06:32am | 12/06/09

Rob McCasker is a noted hoax letter writer and sometime breakfast radio host here on the Gold Coast. He would have had his tongue firmly in his cheek when writing. Gordon Ramsay is a child of a belligerent kitchen cutlure and occasional iconoclast hero to the sociopaths who edify him. At least Rob is witty and knows how to use sentences with adjectives and adverbs, Gordon is past his use-by date and is an oxygen thief.

alan cotterell says:

09:01am | 28/06/09

Sociopaths abound in Australian workplaces already, without importing them to be role models~

alan cotterell says:

09:10am | 28/06/09

Travis Bickle has got it right.  We should remove this sort of sort of sociopath from prime time TV, unless the programme is a documentary on how to deal with one in the workplace!  People like Gordon Ramsay make the lives of others a misery, and can leave a long trail of victims before they are stopped!