Hey! Idk If this comment will be read but I am the great nephew of Janet Frame (I got the last name of my father) but I was born a year after she passed away and have only recently found I am related to Janet but I have found huge interest in my great Auntie!
Thanks for sharing Freddie. I have also experienced a time in a mental hospital in the 80s. I like the new thought that we are people who suffer from mental illness, not mental patients. They are people first
The attitude surrounding mental illness and the patients is slowly changing - the progress still lags in some places though. I certainly learned a great deal about it from my own first-hand experience.
Thank you so much for your review of the book. I’m an advocate for people with mental illness. My mother and my son suffer from severe mental illness, my mother was bipolar and her life was torture. She had electro shock therapy without any sedatives. That’s what they did in those days.Thankfully lobotomy is no longer used but not too long ago, it was actually thought it should be a treatment. I myself have suffered from anxiety and panic attacks, though thankfully, I had better treatment and Worked through a lot of the reasons why I suffered. Of course, a lot of it was genetic so I had to take medication albeit a small amount. The stigma against mentally ill people is sometimes worse than the illness itself and that’s why your review is so important. Aloha friend
Thank you Marilyn for sharing. My treatment is considerably different from how it was many years ago, I imagine and I'm grateful for that. The stigma is still around and I felt a bit of discomfort when sharing my experience but at the same time I think it's important as well
at first i didn't see the faces on the cover and was confused but then i saw them and got freaked out 👻 sounds like an important book, thanks for the introduction. i could be wrong but i feel like the depiction of psychiatric care (or lack of) was maybe a thing in the 60s, maybe coz the west was finishing the transition from prison-like asylums to hospitals with short-term stays. rude phones should be punished.
I love the designs for the covers in this Virago Modern Classics collection. I might collect them 🤭 One thing that is referenced in this book is the changing attitude towards mental health over a period of 8 years. I guess I'm a lenient phone owner 🤭
Hey! Idk If this comment will be read but I am the great nephew of Janet Frame (I got the last name of my father) but I was born a year after she passed away and have only recently found I am related to Janet but I have found huge interest in my great Auntie!
Hey! That is wonderful! It feels nice to discover something about a relative in the past. 😸
Thanks for sharing Freddie. I have also experienced a time in a mental hospital in the 80s. I like the new thought that we are people who suffer from mental illness, not mental patients. They are people first
The attitude surrounding mental illness and the patients is slowly changing - the progress still lags in some places though. I certainly learned a great deal about it from my own first-hand experience.
Thank you so much for your review of the book. I’m an advocate for people with mental illness. My mother and my son suffer from severe mental illness, my mother was bipolar and her life was torture. She had electro shock therapy without any sedatives. That’s what they did in those days.Thankfully lobotomy is no longer used but not too long ago, it was actually thought it should be a treatment. I myself have suffered from anxiety and panic attacks, though thankfully, I had better treatment and Worked through a lot of the reasons why I suffered. Of course, a lot of it was genetic so I had to take medication albeit a small amount. The stigma against mentally ill people is sometimes worse than the illness itself and that’s why your review is so important. Aloha friend
Thank you Marilyn for sharing. My treatment is considerably different from how it was many years ago, I imagine and I'm grateful for that. The stigma is still around and I felt a bit of discomfort when sharing my experience but at the same time I think it's important as well
An excellent review despite initial phone-faffing. Well done and thank you! 🙏
@@1timbarrett Thank you for your kind words! 😁💙
at first i didn't see the faces on the cover and was confused but then i saw them and got freaked out 👻 sounds like an important book, thanks for the introduction. i could be wrong but i feel like the depiction of psychiatric care (or lack of) was maybe a thing in the 60s, maybe coz the west was finishing the transition from prison-like asylums to hospitals with short-term stays. rude phones should be punished.
I love the designs for the covers in this Virago Modern Classics collection. I might collect them 🤭 One thing that is referenced in this book is the changing attitude towards mental health over a period of 8 years.
I guess I'm a lenient phone owner 🤭