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Personality disorder: discrimination by diagnosis

Submitted by Mark_ on Fri, 24/08/2012 - 4:01pm

Mark, a Time to Change blogger "What are you doing now?"
"I’m in this clinic here."
"Why, are you a Doctor?"
"No, I’m a psychiatric patient."
"Shit, you’re not going to knife me are you?"

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When to speak out about mental health problems

Submitted by Mark_ on Thu, 19/04/2012 - 12:31pm

Photo of Mark, a Time to Change blogger It was never part of my plan to work in mental health. In fact as a student in Cambridge in 1990 I had no plan for my life at all. It was then that my psychosis suddenly struck. Although I managed to graduate a year later I was left with a future of medication, incarceration, and no hope of getting better. I certainly never believed I would ever work.