Experiences and recovery
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- Title: A Voice in the Distance
A novel which shows how difficult it can be to love someone suffering from manic depression.
- Title: Behind Closed Doors
- Subtitle: The Current State and Future Vision of Acute Mental Health care in the UK
A report by Rethink, SANE, the Zito trust and NAPICU into inpatient care.
- Title: Broken things
Broken Things encompasses a world of fractured realities and magic. Here are voices lost inside themselves, where the world is not as it should be and nothing may be trusted. These are the lives that are eked out at the very edges of the city, where God might be found in a bonfire or a bag lady can burst into a flock of pigeons and wild laughter. This book picks at the familiar parts of the everyday and frays them, very slightly, reminding us of the beauty and fear of dreams, of things just glimpsed through the corner of the eye.
- Title: Combating Stigma
A DVD resource using service user and carer experiences to combat stigma.
- Title: Despite Anything
- Subtitle: Short stories and other writings by Mark Whittaker
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Mark Whittaker's stories depict, with trademark quirky humour, characters on the edge of society, oddball scientists and ascetic figures searching for the purest expressions of beauty and truth.
- Title: Don't Mind Me
An account by Judith Haire of her experience of psychosis.
- Title: Double Trouble
- Subtitle: Living with Manic Depression
A personal account of one woman's experience of Bipolar disorder.
50p from the sale of this item is donated to Rethink and Mind.
- Title: Early Years, The
- Subtitle: NSF - A history of the early years of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship (NSF), later renamed Rethink.
This is the story of the beginning of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship, later renamed Rethink in 2002. It tells of how a group of remarkable people, faced by the tragedy of severe mental illness in their own families, came together determined to do something about it.
- Title: Fast Train Approaching
- Subtitle: Breaking Away From Breaking Down
Frank and open account of the author's life from first diagnosis of biopolar affective disorder in 1997 to the present day.
- Title: Getting back into the world
- Subtitle: reflections on lived experiences of recovery
This publication describes mental health recovery as experienced and understood by people themselves.

