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| Contributors | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Stigma Stories | |
| A day with severe depression | p. 3 |
| Commentary | p. 4 |
| Resistance is useless | p. 7 |
| Poems | p. 9 |
| Commentary | p. 12 |
| Mental illness and employment | p. 14 |
| Commentary | p. 16 |
| Mental illness in the media | p. 20 |
| Commentary | p. 22 |
| Personal Stories | |
| A positive story | p. 25 |
| Commentary | p. 27 |
| A double life: a selective autobiography | p. 31 |
| Commentary | p. 34 |
| Depression and alcohol | p. 36 |
| Commentary | p. 38 |
| Drug-induced psychosis | p. 40 |
| Problems with drugs and alcohol | p. 42 |
| Commentary | p. 45 |
| Living with obsessive-compulsive disorder | p. 47 |
| Commentary | p. 49 |
| Growing up | p. 51 |
| Eating disorders in men | p. 53 |
| Commentary | p. 55 |
| Commentary | p. 57 |
| Commentary | p. 60 |
| Reflections on caring | p. 63 |
| Caring at home | p. 66 |
| Commentary | p. 68 |
| Becoming ill | p. 69 |
| Issues | |
| Suicide by starvation | p. 73 |
| Commentary | p. 75 |
| If you prick us, do we not bleed? | p. 77 |
| Commentary | p. 80 |
| Refugees and mental health | p. 81 |
| Commentary | p. 82 |
| Commentary | p. 83 |
| Falling through the net | p. 85 |
| Commentary | p. 86 |
| Commentary | p. 88 |
| Poems | p. 90 |
| Living With ... | |
| My in-patient career | p. 95 |
| Jake's hospital journal | p. 97 |
| Commentary | p. 99 |
| The adult I may have become | p. 101 |
| Commentary | p. 101 |
| Living with severe mental illness | p. 104 |
| Commentary | p. 105 |
| Controlling cravings | p. 107 |
| Commentary | p. 108 |
| Under a cloud | p. 110 |
| Getting better | p. 113 |
| Being a gay carer | p. 115 |
| Commentary | p. 117 |
| Growing up as a carer | p. 119 |
| Commentary | p. 121 |
| Extract from A Mother's Story | p. 123 |
| Glossary of terms | p. 129 |
| Organisations than can help | p. 131 |
| References and recommended reading | p. 135 |
| Index | p. 137 |
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