This article is not about policy, budgets nor business. I want to talk about lived experience. I want to share one of my stories with you in the hope that we can work together and improve system outcomes for others.
It talks through my mental health episode, from the onset of symptoms through to discharge from hospital, through states of depression, hypomania, mania and psychosis, transition between these states, the thought processes underlying them and their associated stigma.
My aim is to give you an insight into what a mental health episode looks and feels like. When living in London I was seeing a GP to renew my prescriptions as prescribed by my psychiatrist in Australia.
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