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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and enduring mental illness (such as schizophrenia and bipolar) I’d been attending since being sectioned had been withdrawn as a result of council funding cuts. I first came across social prescribing in 2015.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Schizophrenia? I told him that unemployment payments felt like going on “welfare,” something I had been brought up to avoid at all costs. Others fidgeted, especially one woman whose entire body seemed to shake, from a pulsing foot to fidgety hands. I wondered. I guessed at her diagnosis as well. Schizo-affective disorder?