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Here’s where you don’t want to live

Sep 29 2006 | Comments 0

Portsmouth, England. From Portsmouth.co.uk:

Gaps in the city’s provision were revealed in a survey of mental health users carried out by health watchdog, the Healthcare Commission. It said the government recommended counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy for all patients with schizophrenia or suspected schizophrenia, but nationally the inspectors found only 50 per cent were given access to it. The survey also discovered mental health patients living in the community cannot rely on getting NHS help in a crisis.

Sounds almost as bad as the U.S.! (Kidding. Patriots: Please don’t yell at me.) The best places for nutters like me to live in England are: Bournemouth, Dorset, Buckinghamshire, Southampton and Harrow. Good to know.

liz | 1:15 PM | Uncategorized

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Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.