You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life

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You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here explores these complicated questions from both sides of the doctor’s desk. Antrobus remembers: “I left Sandhurst at 21 because I didn’t want to kill people I thought I’d be a famous comedian and writer. Ray [Galton] and Alan [Simpson] seemed more steady,” Antrobus says now. “They were wonderful writers who did a great job week after week. But even they would sit in silence for days until they had an idea

Spike’s manic depression is well-documented, and me, I escaped alcoholism 35 years ago. I spent time in a drying-out clinic – at least that’s what you would call it today. They were mental hospitals in those days. But I saw myself as a political refugee in there. One of the captions, written by Ralph Spence, reads: “You don’t have to be crazy to dance the Charleston, but it helps.”

It turned our mind to what we believe really helps employees when it comes to their workplace. Many spend over eight hours a day, five days a week in this environment, trying to generate income for the company, hopefully trying to be the best that they can be.

You don’t have to be crazy to work here, but it helps,” one Disney employee explained. And that’s the slogan of almost every Hollywood technician.Nov: You don’t have to be crazy to dance the Charleston, but it helps. (Attributed to Ralph Spence) Additional details and citations are available in the article on the Medium platform which is located here. But of Speight, who died in 1998 at thee age of 78, Antrobus will say: “ I enjoyed working with him – and drinking with him. He introduced me to George Bernard Shaw.” In December 1930 “The Arizona Daily Star” of Tucson, Arizona printed an instance within a section dedicated to contributions from readers:⁸ When Alan blew the whistle on his writing career, Ray wrote with Johnny Speight, who had a different approach. Johnny would never examine his work, he would never rewrite. But Spike did so obsessively.”