Recovery from mental illness (or not)?

By Lucette Davies

A full recovery from a period of mental illness requires far more than the necessary clinical interventions.  Many aspects of life for a person who has been treated for their mental illness, may serve to hamper any chance they had of recovery.

This post will look at the issues a person may face following treatment and question whether enough is being done to support the psychiatric services.

 

 

 

 

 

Mental Health services – the poor relation within the NHS

By Lucette Davies

The fact that mental health services remain as the poor relation to all other NHS services cannot be denied.  This post will look at jut how poor a relation they are, and what the consequences of this inequality are.