Altered Perceptions: An 18 Month Diary, One Day at a Time, in the Life of a Mental Health Service User by Yvonne Stewart Williams (9781849913423)
Yvonne Stewart Williams
Release Date: 10 December 1150 Format: Paperback Pages: 382 Category: Mental Health Publisher: Chipmunkapublishing ISBN: 9781849913423 ISBN-10: 1849913420
Description
Altered Perception is an eighteen month daily journey from an acute psychiatric hospital admission prior to my 2009 acute psychiatric admission via HMP Holloway Women's Prison.
This diary explores my lesbian sexuality, the parenting role of James, my young biological son in looked after foster care, and my support of a loved one with prostate cancer.
In this diary I reveal that for me it is not so much whether mental illness can be cured, but what one does in life in between each acute psychiatric episode. A kind of walking between the raindrops, until you get wet experience.