The BBC reports that in a study of 500 young people conducted by Great Ormond Street Hospital, almost half could not name a single mental health condition. Dr Jon Goldin, a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at Great Ormond Street, said the...
Topics: Awareness, News items

September 2003 If you have been following our story in order this is quite a jump forward in time, but the subject of having a loved one detained under a section of the Mental Health Act is one that has been discussed recently , but not in depth. This...
Topics: Past experience

I’m feeling slightly overwhelmed this evening. That’s the word I use to describe how I feel when I feel under pressure and everything starts becoming too much. I don’t know why I feel this way; often it is very normal every day things that weigh me.

Thank you to everyone who has asked how Mr Man is doing. I’m sorry to have kept everyone waiting so long for an update; since the weekend I seem to have swung from being mentally very alert and hardly sleeping, to feeling like a zombie and sleeping at..
Topics: Medication, Present day

End September 2002 - beginning October 2002 As previously mentioned , the voices have worsened again for Mr Man recently, telling him to cut himself. So far he has managed to resist carrying out their demands, but it’s funny how the fear that he will...
Topics: Past experience, Posts illustrated by Philippa King, Present day