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My son has schizophrenia. Why can't the system
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,,1951739,00.html
A litany of failures was revealed last week in the mental care of John Barrett, the man who murdered a stranger in Richmond Park. The failures are not unique. In this brutally honest account, author and father Tim Salmon reveals the frustrations and confusion that have blighted his son's treatment as inadequate care services struggle to manage.
Sunday November 19, 2006 The Observer
A Mums Story
http://www.pamshouse.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carers_experiences.htm
How could anyone have foreseen, that beautiful June day, 15 years ago, when John walked out of a school exam, that it was the heralding of a dark, deeply , mysteriously, hidden illness, that would, from that time on, plague him, at times overwhelm him and finally seduce him into taking his own life.
The woman who was locked up because of her depression
http://news.independent.co.uk:80/uk/health_medical/article2152454.ece
Families feel let down by services
http://www.lep.co.uk:80/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=73&ArticleID=1934298
Three vulnerable people who had been treated at the same mental health unit died by throwing themselves under trains in a month.
Mental health officer attacks services
http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1076781.0.mental_health_officer_attacks_services.php
A LEADING mental health officer has launched a stinging attack on the NHS's "cinderella" psychiatric services
Article on launch of campaign for the abolition of Schizophrenia from the Scotsman/Edinburgh Evening News, 30/10/2006
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1605332006
WHAT do you think of when you hear the word schizo-phrenic? Perhaps someone who has lost their grip on reality or perhaps a Jekyll and Hyde type, flitting between delusional and dangerous? Or someone who is directed by voices to harm themselves or others?
Is 'voice-hearing' an act of lunacy, or are we ignorant to the plight of the sufferers?, Belfast Telegraph, 07/06/2007
Source: Belfast Telegraph, 07/06/2007 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/health/article2624017.ece
Inside the violent, chaotic world of our mental wards
How should we treat the most vulnerable in our society? In hospital or in the community? With Mehmet Bala facing life in a secure unit after he killed John Curran by pushing him in front of a train, The Observer gained unprecedented access to a mental health system at breaking point
http://society.guardian.co.uk/socialcare/story/0,,2053609,00.html
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