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David Strange on the BBC concerning antipsychotics

I’m the BBC’s favourite antipsychotic user!

The BBC News website have picked me out as their favourite antipsychotic user. It is not a very happy story, alas, but sadly it is all true. After waking up with bad dreams, which just happened to be about the first time I was sectioned when I lost my marbles, I dropped by the BBC [...]


There's still some toddler in me

Cake mix – a dessert

Right, let me make it abundantly clear that this cracking idea for a dessert is universal copyright David Strange ad infinitum. If I find any restaurant is using this without paying me stacks of cash I shall come and wee in your fridges, write slanderously bad reviews of you and sue your arses off. When [...]


Klaus Kinski also had schizophrenia, I'd never have guessed from watching his films...

Hooray, I’m the world’s favourite nutter!

When more morally flexible people learn I have paranoid schizophrenia they get a cheap thrill. They think they’ve found a great bit of ammunition they can use to shame, inconvenience or discredit me. Any reader of this site will know such things just won’t work. Not only am I charming and well-liked as well as [...]


David Strange appears in The Times as the new poster kid for paranoid schizophrenia

A good day for the ego – I’m in The Times and people like my tasting notes

I’m pleased as chips today. Firstly, that august organ The Times published a big picture of me looking terribly cold in the only vaguely photogenic location in horrible, horrible Woolwich. I am more than happy to be the new face of paranoid schizophrenia. I’ll come clean and admit that I am on page 69, so [...]


David in a flowery shirt and delicious brown cord suit - perfect for Parliament

My talk given in Parliament

Last week I gave a talk in the House of Commons to a bunch of Members of Parliament. It was only a four minute talk with the aim of convincing them to increase access to psychological (‘talking’) therapies for people with similar mental health problems to me, yet I managed to fit in references to [...]


This is how I go out dressed for dinner in the summer

This is how I go out dressed for dinner in the summer

I’m a sex god in my pink jacket and flowery shirt. And I’m drinking Savennieres, yeah!


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The ten reasons why I love wine

I’ve , which I did from a hilariously young age, but what keeps me drinking it these days? Here are my top ten reasons why I love wine: Each wine experience is unrepeatable . This is one of the things I love most about fine wine as an art form. Even if you have many [...]


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Need to reduce? Try eating less

Last night we went to (clearly London’s best meat restaurant); the food was, as ever, amazing. I was very pleased to see they have added roasted bone marrow to their menu as a side dish, it was super-scrummy. It the pictures our hosts took come out alright I’ll post them here with some pithy comments. [...]


A happy, if slightly weird, anniversary to remember

My long-time reader may recall that I have paranoid-schizophrenia; this is why I have a generally low-intensity life writing opinionated drivel about booze and food. I developed it during the late 90s whilst I was studying at Oxford for my doctorate. The screaming intensity of the paranoid delusions and hallucinations became so powerful and intolerable [...]


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How I got started

I’ve occasionally been asked how I got into wine. This is a bit of a difficult question to answer as I started so young I am not really sure what was the initial spark. My parents were not at all interested in wine, there was not much wine consumed in the home environment. I didn’t [...]

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