Category Archives: General Psychiatry

Psychiatry over 6 decades – From a personal perspective

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Stockport Mind

Part 3 – the Eighties The eighties provided the fuel for my major explosion in the nineties, I had little or no contact with services but it was the decade which, with hindsight, could have alerted everyone, including me, of what … Continue reading →

Psychiatry over 6 decades – From a personal perspective

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Stockport Mind

Part 2 – The Seventies I had been at boarding school since I was eleven and had hated every minute of it until I reached seventeen in 1970, with hindsight I realised that I had been experiencing depression at various levels … Continue reading →

Psychiatry over 6 decades – From a personal perspective

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Stockport Mind

Part 1 – The Sixties I didn’t even know that I had visited a psychiatric ward at the age of eight (1961) until around thirty five years later, when my sister asked if I remembered visiting her at Friern Barnet … Continue reading →