Treatment Involves Deprivation and Multiple Losses.
“I was experiencing massive overwhelming grief. And that’s what I needed support with. But it was very much pathologised…I got labelled with borderline personality disorder, and it was pretty much all downhill from there”
“Hospital makes you sometimes more unwell, I think… There’s also a feeling that it’s a prison. It is to be honest. It is, you’re locked in there”
“I didn’t feel valid as a human being... my voice was taken away.”
“I have had to rebuild my life again since [the admission]. And I feel like it has put me back years and years and years”
“Because I don’t have my health records altogether, they don’t know that once upon a time I had a diagnosis…. If they did, they would treat me differently … I have to be vigilant around all sorts of systems”
