The distance between the mental health coal face, the Bureaucrats trying to manage and a Government that doesn’t care

More than ten years after an innovative mental health law that would supposedly prevent them, victims and activists argue that involuntary hospitalizations are still common It was only a year ago that Zhang Po had finished school when a van from the mine in which he worked in the province of Anhui was out of control and crashed into him causing injuries that ended his short career as a coal miner. Since the accident in 1999, Zhang has lived than…

The distance between the mental health coal face, the Bureaucrats trying to manage and a Government that doesn’t care

Nothing manages to highlight the distance between the mental health coal face, the Bureaucrats trying to manage and a Government that doesn’t care than this secret recording by a Mum trying to get her son mental health care… ‘So broken’: Secret recordings reveal frank confessions from mental health staff Last year, in the space of three months, 18-year-old Sam made a series of suicide attempts and was barely holding on. A psychiatrist acknowledg…