Health
‘I feel mentally done in’: how the NHS fails people with depression and spinal injuries – The Guardian
Almost half of all adults with a mental illness have a long-term physical disability. We desperately need joined-up healthcare
When I was 18, a long period of depression led me to jump from a height in a suicide attempt. In doing so, I sustained life-changing spinal cord injuries that to this day mean I have little mobility or sensation below my waist and my bowel and bladder do not work.
Yet only a few years after that first attempt, I tried to take my life again. One of the main reasons was due to the lack of practical and psychological help I was receiving to cope with my new disability.
The mental health services …
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