John Robins
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2,358 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jul
John Robins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because you wouldn't say to that guy, oh, he's probably just being dramatic.
Yeah, that phrase doesn't really exist.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I'd not come across that term.
And, you know, I've done a lot of reading, done nearly 100 of these episodes of this podcast, and I'd not heard the emotionally unstable personality disorder.
And even a brief read of it does make it sound like it's sort of a medical way of saying they're a bit of a pain.
So could you tell us about your experience of that diagnosis?
So the result of this change in your care, the change in your medication, is that you had a psychotic episode, would you call it, a period of psychosis?
Yeah.
Which ended with you sort of robbing or attempting to rob a newsagent with an imitation firearm.
Sorry, I sounded more like a police officer there.
And I wonder what is your relationship with that event now from maybe looking back from this point in your life?
Well, I read a sub stack today about shame and it was just sort of really interesting talking about how shame is often when you judge a past behavior from a changed state.
So, you know, if you were to reverse it, if you were to look at you now from that point in time, you'd be, you would feel the complete opposite.
You'd feel absolutely euphoric and so grateful.
So sometimes I guess this is just a mental thought exercise.
It could be quite useful.
You start your book, Mad Art of Doing Time, which is fantastic.
It's an incredible mix of poetry and prose.
that does so much to communicate so many different things about addiction and about um psychosis and prison and sort of rehabilitation and freedom but also it's all from the perspective of this sort of very rich psychic landscape and you can kind of tell that
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