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Changing Minds: Our Lives and Mental Illness

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This book shows how individuals, their friends, families and employers, have found ways to overcome difficulties and cope with the changes in their lives brought about by the onset of depression, anxiety, dementia, schizophrenia, alcohol or drug addictions and eating disorders. Contributions from the providers of mental health services show the ranges of support and treatment available, as well as how both users and providers are learning from each other to help improve services. This is the third joint publication by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and West London Health Promotion Agency. Unique collection of experiences from a wide range of individuals in the mental health field. Provides new insights into how individuals live with and survive mental health difficulties. Contributions from both users of and providers of/professionals in mental health services. Covers six major psychiatric conditions. Signposts to helplines and self-help organisations. Focuses on success stories and what helps people to help themselves.

Table of Contents:
Contents Contributors Foreword Preface STIGMA STORIES A day with severe depression by Colin Edington Commentary - Peter Relton Resistance is useless by Lizzie Gardiner Poems by V. I. Oliver Commentary - Femi Oyebode Mental illness and employment by Kay McKall Commentary - Alison Cobb Mental illness in the media by Stephen Dominic Commentary - Peter Byrne PERSONAL STORIES A positive story by Jean James Commentary - Miles Rinaldi A double life: a selective autobiography by Anonymous Commentary - David Baldwin Depression and alcohol by Anonymous Commentary - Michael Crowe Drug-induced psychosis by Randy Osqviff Problems with drugs and alcohol by Keith Murray Commentary - Emily Finch Living with obsessive-compulsive disorder by Daisy Fields Commentary - Isaac Marks Growing up by Anonymous Eating disorders in men by Anonymous Commentary - Jim Bolton Commentary - Mike Hobbs Commentary - Steve Bloomfield Reflections on caring by Philip Ingram Caring at home by Gillian Harrison Commentary - Susan Benbow Becoming ill by Jamie Barnes ISSUES Suicide by starvation by Anna Paterson Commentary - Susan Bailey If you prick us, do we not bleed? by Anonymous Commentary - Michael King Refugees and mental health by SGH Commentary - Derek Summerfield Commentary - Kam Bhui Falling through the net by Anonymous Commentary - Philip Timms Commentary - Alison Gray Poems by Peter Grist LIVING WITH... My in-patient career by Anonymous Jake's hospital journal by Jamie Barnes Commentary - Kelly Ratchford The adult I may have become by Sarah Swainston Commentary - Winston McCartney Living with severe mental illness by Paul Reet Commentary - Roger Freeman Controlling cravings by Anonymous Commentary - Roger Farmer Under a cloud by Barry Lane Getting better by Janet Powick Being a gay carer by Mark Paige Commentary - Jill Siddle Growing up as a carer by Nicola Dacre Commentary - Patsy Westcott Extract from A Mother's Story by Georgie Wakefield Glossary of terms Organisations that can help References and recommended reading Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781901242881
  • Publisher: The Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Publisher Imprint: Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 138
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 346 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1901242889
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Our Lives and Mental Illness
  • Width: 210 mm


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