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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression. Schizophrenia? I’ve been at Thompson for over six years as a therapist,” Kathy started. I addressed it with my regular therapist, but nothing we tried was working.” Apparently, the staff—or her therapist—had given her a job to do.

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Social prescribing is a lovely idea but it won’t make up for the care I’m not getting

SECTIONED

Access to the specialist day centre for people with severe and enduring mental illness (such as schizophrenia and bipolar) I’d been attending since being sectioned had been withdrawn as a result of council funding cuts. One issue is that it overlooks what’s already there, including occupational therapists and social workers.