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2008:
 EXCLUSIVE
June 13: 'Mental
illness is petrifying' - day-to-day life as an inpatient on
a psychiatric unit is being documented on an internet blog by Mandy
Lawrence, left,
 May
21: Almost all psychiatric patients oppose smoking ban on units,
study claims
- but patients at Rampton, pictured left, lose test case
for right to continue smoking. Judges ruled ban was justified for
"health and security" reasons.
 May
1: Psychologist's non-drug approach provokes storm of reactions
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psychiatrists call NHS clinician's work “dangerous”.
But other professionals give support
EXCLUSIVE:
April
18: Underground recovery - Clinical
psychologist Rufus May
explains why, when using a non-drug approach to help a doctor who
heard voices, he had no choice but to work in secret.
 April
2: Mental health TV drama seen by 1.3 million -
Poppy Shakespeare was a dramatisation of the book, left,
by Clare Allen who spent ten years as a patient at a London day
centre. What did you
think?
March
20: Psychiatric patients launch test case for right to smoke while
detained
- patients could be only group of people banned from smoking "in
the privacy of their own home", judges told
 EXCLUSIVE:
Jan 16: Schizophrenia psychologist launches 'coming off' psychiatric
drugs website - Rufus May, left, fears medication withdrawal
effects are confused with illness symptoms
 Jan
16: 'The Henderson saved my life' - here's why the acclaimed
personality disorder unit
should stay open, writes Kath Lovell
2007:
 May
2: Expert advice? Service user knowledge from around Europe
is being collated to boost the status of user expertise. But will
it come to anything, asks Adam James?
2006:
Feature:
July 21: The art
of staying out - how does one patient peer-support project reduce
time its members spend in hospital by 89 per cent?
July
21: Online directory of mental health service user groups launched
July
7: Government has rejected call for mental health service user “tsar”
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Professor Louis Appleby has said so himself states mental health
group
Jan
31: Government to pay service users to talk to journalists on mental
health - scheme bids to promote positive media coverage of
stories relating to schizophrenia, manic depression and personality
disorder
2000
Sept
23, 2000: Going undercover - When Rufus May was a teenager he
was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and told he would have
to take medication for the rest of his life. He since came off all
medication and is now a clinical psychologist with a message, writes
Adam
James
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