Mental Illness: A Handbook for Carers - Rosalind Ramsey (Editor), George Szmukler (Editor), Clare Gerada (Editor)

During my studying for my Diploma in Social Work, one of the core subjects was mental health, which looked at the causes, and effects of mental health on people and the families involved. One of the things I found out was that mental Illness is a thing that happens to other people, like Frank Bruno, and to admit to having a mental illness can open you up to stigma and ridicule, only look at any tabloid recently. While people like Bruno make the front page, 1 in 4 of us will suffer from some kind of mental illness during our lifetime, which means that most of us will know somebody with a mental ... more