Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Eliza The last couple of months have been the hardest part of my life – weeks of insomnia and nightmares combined with hours of crying until I’ve felt that I could not breathe and long working hours with feelings of guilt as I felt unproductive, stupid, unneeded and shame Continue Reading
By bipolaretaeus Before this most recent severe depression (and lesser episodes/cycling in between) I had a manic episode with mixed features which landed me my first acute admission to a psychiatric hospital. It was the most terrifying moment of my life. I’d never had one before and it came on with no Continue Reading
By Rachel Kellett I ended up in a psychiatric hospital. The hospital was out of area, to keep confidentiality, which unfortunately left friends and family a fair distance away. The experience itself was in retrospect a great learning curve as a doctor but it’s one that still makes me deeply Continue Reading
By Rachel Kellett Even the most enthusiastic foundation doctor on a busy acute medicine ward would agree, when your supervising consultant gives you three days notice to present at the grand round, it’s unlikely to leave you jumping for joy. She had an audit to show and wanted a case Continue Reading