What it's like to be on both sides of a mental health section | Rebecca Lawrence

What it's like to be on both sides of a mental health section | Rebecca Lawrence As a psychiatrist and a patient, I know how painful it can be. No amount of legal reform will change that

When I was first admitted to hospital, far away from where I now live, it was with the threat of the Mental Health Act (1983) hanging over me. The horror lives with me still, with surprising clarity. The idea of losing one’s liberty and being powerless to prevent it, whatever you say, is not easy to imagine. The Guardian