Comments on: Rant-o-Rama: Psycho Donuts

By: rebecca

rebecca — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:09:32 +0000

Is it true we’ve given up the fight?

http://psychodonuts.blogspot.com/

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

By: DRH

DRH — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:01:16 +0000

“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.

By: DRH

DRH — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:43:33 +0000

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.

By: gladtobealive

gladtobealive — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:10:17 +0000

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.

By: YouPeopleAreBeingStupid

YouPeopleAreBeingStupid — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:40:19 +0000

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…

By: bob

bob — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:39:33 +0000

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?

By: Dan Weaver

Dan Weaver — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:08:10 +0000

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

By: Robert Martin-Hill II

Robert Martin-Hill II — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:12:28 +0000

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.

By: Brien

Brien — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:53:15 +0000

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.

By: Berry

Berry — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:25:40 +0000

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.