World Mental Health Day: Smash the stigma and demand parity in treatment

Today I am an Arsenal fan. Today I love house music. Today I’m keen on the odd cake. Today I have borderline personality disorder (BPD), anxiety and chronic longterm depression. A diagnosis I live with. Yesterday, today and tomorrow. Since my diagnosis in 2010 I’ve fought then given up then fought again to live with it. I’ve bashed my head hard against the pauper NHS … Continue reading World Mental Health Day: Smash the stigma and demand parity in treatment

Sharing the burden in the big society?

I’m a little cross. And other labels. Which occasionally means I come into contact with the mental health services as they try to tick boxes and deal with my long term clinical depression. Tunes and good times don’t come on a script (my usual coping mechanism) but then neither does it seem does actual bloody treatment. Several years ago they re-jigged the mental health system … Continue reading Sharing the burden in the big society?