Here's my contribution to Blogging Against Disablism Day (BADD) 2017. Hospital is no place for the sick.I've told the tale of breaking my leg. Many times I told it while I was in Airedale Hospital, Yorkshire, for five weeks with a broken leg ( Read more... )

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?

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Last month on this comm we discussed the Liverpool Care Pathway. My fellow blogger on WordPress, k2p, has more to say today. Phe says that the UK embraces being “cared to death”I think these 'care pathways' are the worst of both worlds. Neither legally sanctioned assisted dying (the Right to Die) nor legally sanctioned enforcement of 'life' (the ( Read more... )

This looks good, doesn't it? I might try it.