Here's an extract from 'The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times' by Barbara Taylor. ( Cut for descriptions of life as a psychiatric patient. )

I like this blog post about Barbara Taylor.

This feels personal for me. How about you? Have you experienced life as an inpatient or outpatient of the mental health system? What's 'Care in the Community' like?

In recent storylines in the UK telly soap Emmerdale we've seen details of the relationship between elderly Sandy and his son Ashley, in whose house Sandy lives ( Read more... )