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Life After Care

Life After Care

Mark Edwards

(2017)

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Abstract

In this book, we follow Mark's journey with anxiety, panic attacks and depression, and we learn about the enduring impact his childhood had on his mental health.

His diary entries bring to life the thoughts and feelings of Mark, as a teenager, struggling to understand how he came to be placed in care, and how to deal with his adolescent feelings of loss and love.

On the verge of breakdown, Mark tried to take his own life and he was sectioned under the mental health act. We follow his journey from local authority care to the wards of a crumbling Victorian psychiatric asylum, and beyond into life on the streets ...

This is a heartfelt, true story, of how a troubled young man managed to turn his life around. From being imprisoned in the care system and mislabelled as a violent boy with no hope, we hear how Mark became a successful, happily married family man, and a prominent figure in his local community.

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Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
FRONTCOVER 1
COPYRIGHT 3
INTRODUCTION A MOMENTOUS ACHIEVEMENT 8
CHAPTER 1 DRAGGED AWAY FROM HOME 10
CHAPTER 2 LIFE IN A FOSTER HOME 15
CHAPTER 3 ENTERING THE CHILDREN’S HOME 22
CHAPTER 4 LIFE IN CARE 29
CHAPTER 5 AUNTY LINDSAY 34
CHAPTER 6 A DRASTIC DECLINE 51
CHAPTER 7 GETTING SECTIONED 58
CHAPTER 8 DIARIES OF A TEENAGER IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL 62
CHAPTER 9 LIFE IN A MENTAL INSTITUTION – A REFLECTION 156
CHAPTER 10 FACING LIFE OUTSIDE OF AN INSTITUTION 165
CHAPTER 11 BREAKING DOWN THE WALL 174
CHAPTER 12 REVISITING THE PAST 183
CHAPTER 13 THE LONG, HARD ROAD TO ORDINATION 190
CHAPTER 14 THE JOY OF ORDINATION 198
CHAPTER 15 STILL FIGHTING THE STIGMA 202
CHAPTER 16 FINDING MY WAY BACK 209
CHAPTER 17 RECEIVING RECOGNITION FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS 226
CHAPTER 18 A BATTLE BETWEEN PEACE AND ANXIETY 230
CHAPTER 19 STARTING A NEW LIFE IN NEWCASTLE 237
CHAPTER 20 RECOVERY DOES NOT MAKE ME PERFECT 250
CHAPTER 21 THE LESSONS I’VE LEARNT 258
CONCLUSION 265
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 272