Posted: Thursday, May 12th, 2016 Last month saw the anniversary of the passing of the world’s greatest ballet dancer and choreographer, Nijinsky. It was also sad that despite a meteoric early career he was, during his early life, struck down by the serious mental illness that we now know of as schizophrenia and which prevented him from fulfilling his true […]
Posted: Sunday, November 29th, 2015 Living with Schizophrenia has long been strongly critical of the government’s policy of cutting mental health beds in the UK. Now a recent investigation by the respected journal Community Care and the BBC has found that, as we suspected, people have been dying because of lack of beds. In fact seven suicides and one homicide […]
Posted: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 In a new £25million pilot scheme announced by the UK government recently, mental health nurses will be based at police stations and courts in ten areas of England. Their role will be to arrange for people with mental illness who end up at the police station because of disturbed behaviour to be diverted into the […]
Posted: Sunday, June 14th, 2015 The death of 86 year old John Nash, the US mathematician, along with his wife Alicia in a car crash in New Jersey in May came as a great shock to all those working with schizophrenia. Nash was one of the greatest mathematical minds of the 20th century and was awarded the Nobel prize for […]
Posted: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 Since the 1983 Mental Health Act came into force, police stations have routinely been used to detain people with schizophrenia thought to be at risk of harming themselves or someone else for short periods pending assessment by a psychiatrist and transfer to a local mental health unit. There have been several recent high profile cases […]
