J’s story: living with personality disorder

J has struggled with a personality disorder for much of his life. In previous placements, his self-harm and parasuicidal actions have meant that staff struggled to work well with him, and new placements didn’t want to risk accepting him. We worked closely with J, helping him to work through his negative thoughts and feelings. Rather […]

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D’s Story: Coming to terms with Schizophrenia

D has had lots of different placements in care settings, and all of them have sadly broken down – until she started working with us. D experiences hallucinations that are massively distressing to her, so helping D manage her medication is a very important step on the way to D being able to accept the […]

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K’s story: Learning to manage Bipolar Disorder

K has been detained under the Mental Health Act many, many times. Chaos, vulnerability, violence and risk have been constants throughout his life. Traditional mental health services have struggled for years to work with K, and things got progressively worse. K’s mental illness finally drove him to try and burn down his neighbours flat, and […]

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