Hopefully this business will fold soon and they will get the message: Some things are just off limits.

Ewwwwwwwww. This is not only sick and disrespectful but it is bad karma, baby….. watch out, it could be you, the person who made this disgusting thing up.

Seriously bad karma…

Heisenberg said, there are things so horrible we have to laugh at them.

You want to be offended, what about NYCPD killing people with mental illness, and the commissioner Kelly saying , well they went off their meds, like that is a reason to kill someone. That is something to be offended by.

You would think that people who study the mind would see the value of this. I am bipolar, I do not want people taking it in with shock and total seriousness, I would like them to be able to laugh with me, with humour comes compassion.

I think the Lou Gehrig Donuts is hysterical, I want to go there.

Those who say we do not need meds, or want animal testing to stop are a danger, a joke is just a joke.

I have never met anyone who is truly smart who did not have a silly sense of humour, and that includes many with PDD.

When I was a kid people did not talk about cancer, when we started to joke openly about it was when we were open about it and people got support.

I take this shop as a sigh that we are making real progress in mental illness. So some charity doesn’t like it, bull, they are just getting face time in the press.

These charities are just PR groups they do little to help, they do not have the money, and they do not have the honesty, many scientist friends who did research have worked for various groups like the American cancer, lung association et cetera. They all left because the groups were inherently dishonest. They say what they have to to maintain fear and donations.

Lieing and whining, are the really disgusting behaviours. Not jokes. I am horribly offended by so many peoples hobby of being offended by and railing against anything they do not personally like.

I find religion offensive, I find catholic children’s charities to be a perverted joke, but so what. I do not want people telling me what to do, so I can not do the same. It’s common sense.

We need to learn to tolerate others offensiveness. There are much bigger problems.

I am scared to death of the police, donut shops don’t rate any worry at all.

Look to history when you put something off limits, you do not protect it, you damage it, you set it up for corruption.

Robert:
Looks like we may have to agree to disagree on this one.

However, do you about NARSAD?

NARSAD is not some mamby-pamby charity seeking “face time in the press.” In 22 years NARSAD HAS funded over $238 million in research. The world’s top scientists, including Dr. Helen Mayberg, have been recipients of NARSAD grants. Many ground-breaking achievements in mental health research can be traced to NARSAD funding. NARSAD has received top accreditation from Charity Navigator and is BBB accredited charity.

So, when NARSAD returns your $50 donation, it means something.

Make the best of your circumstances.No one has everything,and everyone has something Of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life.The Trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.
If someone calls you crazy and you are,Is that sick and disrespectful?Remember…make the laughter outweigh the tears.

my son recently committed suicide at 15. after about 4 months…i am joining the life of the living again and keeping my sense of humor. i have a pond in the back yard and one of my goldfish has a red spot on the top of his forehead, so i named him after my son. my son’s method of suicide was a gunshot to the forehead. his suicide is what it is. it wasn’t my decision, i won’t condone it, it’s not funny, but humor is one of my releases in dealing with reality.
just an example to help others not be so dramatic about words and dry humor. life is too short, right?

Good for NARSAD!

I don’t often comment on topics like this. But I am so appalled by this business owner’s extreme level of psychophobia (and his self-congratulatory, “oh I didn’t mean to be offensive so therefore I wasn’t offensive” blog posts, that I can’t be quiet. I’m also very unnerved by the people here and elsewhere who are dismissing this as humor and therefore harmless. For people here saying oh, this isn’t a serious matter , police shooting mentally ill people off their meds is serious, what, exactly, do you think creates the attitude that it’s OK to kill, torture and disregard people with mental illnesses? It’s micro-aggressions like this.

So no, this depressive “psycho” isn’t laughing.

Laura, my sincere sympathies for your son’s death. My father killed himself 12 years ago, and I still can’t laugh about it. I’m glad that you can use humor to cope, though!

You’re taking this way too seriously. They’re not “making fun of mental illness”. At all.

They’re trying to incorporate the concept of “crazy”–which has connotations other than mental illness, after all–into a fun environment. There’s nothing more offensive about that than about the car salesman who calls himself “Crazy Eddie”.

I suffer from mental illness at times, and I see no reason to take this personally. Get over yourselves.

I hope the business’s marketing angle restructures in a positive yet still shocking way, how offensive can you get?, but putting down a strong upcoming local business would not be good.

Using the words crazy, insane, and psycho are not the problem, in my mind, its branding their variety with names so specific to psychiatry diagnoses.

Narsad sounds great but 10 million a year is not much. And the cost to collect that 10 million is probably about the same.
When the gov gives 100 million in a year to conduct research they spend little or nothing telling you about it. they spend little or nothing on lavish dinners to congratulate themselves.

charities give the allusion of taking care of a problem which gives the gov and excuse to do nothing.

Look at Bush’s response to Katrina. He stated that the charities could take care of it all and gov did not need to do anything.

Years later it is still a mess.

This is to our collective shame.

Thanks for your article. I have written two articles on the subject.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1662937/new_california_mental_illnessthemed.html?singlepage=true&cat=8

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1665324/psycho_donuts_in_cambell_california.html?cat=8

How dare the donut owners say such things!!!

http://www.metroactive.com/metro/05.06.09/letters-0918.html

they have such nerve!!!

btw … why aren’t we going after the comedy Channel?

Hey you people are focusing your negativity where it isn’t needed. These are some small business owners trying to be creative and generate business at a time when it is needed. You’re being just as stupid as right wing “christians” protesting Halloween. Get a life and go do something more constructive. Take an objective look at yourselves and really think about how you spend your time…

i find it funny, cute, creative. I suffer from mental illness and work in mental health and state hospitals MHMR…. I am not offended by eating bipolar donuts in straight jackets… They need a nurse Rachet with a prn hypodermic needle of jelly or that custard bavarian cream you put in long johns walking around with free samples? Anyway lighten up and put a humorous slant on something that is painful. it helps to laugh. i thought it was a good marketing idea and I would take me and my friends to eat doughnuts there.

Psycho Donuts is a fun source of tasty donuts.

The people who aree taking offense seem to have issues very much external to this donuts shop… they really need to make an attempt to see beyond their blinkered little world.

“While you may not realize it, your store embodies the reasons that so many people with mental illness don’t want to admit their problem,”

The above is the mantra that the anti-donut people keep repeating … but…. what “reasons” are those? Seriously.

Is it true we’ve given up the fight?

http://psychodonuts.blogspot.com/

Why aren’t we agreeing to debate these scumballs on TV ?????