AIBU - Princess Diana new statue

[ForeverAintEnough3]

She was a style icon yet she’s in one of those frumpy waist belts that were only in fashion briefly. The face does nothing to represent how beautiful she was. It’s too harsh.

@StartupRepair "......the sculptor is being attacked.......for the fact that it actually doesn't look like its subject.... "

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@ancientgran

Read the thread, she should have been walking through landmines, she should have been with her sons, she should have been glamorous in an iconic dress.

Well indeed, it boils down to very few people seem to think it represents her well.

Unfortunately they don't agree on how it should represent her so nothing would have been right would it? Never mind, her sons commissioned it, if they are happy just leave them to it.

To people criticising are you aware of the MH issues Prince Harry has talked about? Sometimes we really don't need to say everything that is in our heads. How do you think he feels when newspapers and online people are making horrible judgemental comments when he and his brother have tried to do something for their mother?

Him and tens of thousands of other people with far fewer resources and avenues of assistance.

It's a public memorial, not a personal memorial in Harry's private back garden.

Public statements invite comment, and they knew not all would be favourable from the start.

Amazingly resources don't make that much of a difference to MH. You can be poor with no MH problems or rich with all sorts of problems, I've worked in MH and we've had clients who were seriously ill despite being multi millionaires.

Well make your comments if you really must, I mean commenting negatively on a statue that doesn't affect you in the slightest is obviously really important to some people.

Yes, but it's a shit ton harder having poor mental health health and no money for therapy.

Well as I have seen very rich people living with horrific mental health issues we will differ. Up to a point it will help but if you are psychotic, crouched in a corner screaming money in the bank isn't going to help. If you are doing horrific self harm, the sort that isn't talked about, it isn't going to help.

If you are poor with bad mental health you risk having your kids taken from you.

Who is the girl under her left hand?

@stairway

If you are poor with bad mental health you risk having your kids taken from you.

Tell Britney Spears.

@GladAllOver

Who is the girl under her left hand?

Like the two boys she is representing the children Princess Diana cared for i.e. all children.

@ancientgran

Well as I have seen very rich people living with horrific mental health issues we will differ. Up to a point it will help but if you are psychotic, crouched in a corner screaming money in the bank isn't going to help. If you are doing horrific self harm, the sort that isn't talked about, it isn't going to help.

Again, if you have the same mental health health issues and you're skint, you're far worse off. You end up dead, on the street, in jail.

There's no way you're going to convince me or anyone with a half a brain that it's just as bad to have mh issues and money & status as it is to have mh issues and no money or status. It's plainly bollocks.

Of course bad mh is bad and sad for anyone, but bollocks that money doesn't help. I'd choose to be rocking and screaming in a nice padded room with people trying to give me the best medical care rather than rocking and screaming under a fucking bridge with a cardboard box.

Of course poor people will have specific issues and challenges but one thing they don't have to worry about is other people (usually family) making decisions on the basis of their access to your money. As I've said I've seen it and people aren't always subtle.

You don't really hear much about this except in regard to the abuse of the elderly with dementia but it happens to younger people as well.

So money can help but it doesn't always and where I worked we had clients who had nothing and millionaires, the fees were sometimes paid from their own resources, sometimes by family and frequently by the NHS or local authority. In fact the majority were funded by the NHS or local authorities. Some families were interested and some weren't but only the rich ones had "loved ones" making dubious decisions/demands.