As part of the CPD programme mentioned, I also had the chance to speak with a Mental Health in-patient who was said by staff who had known him for years not to have "any insight" in his condition they called schizophrenia. On one occasion, within less than one hour, he told me how he had arrived with his family as small boy in the UK one cold February. His parents had had high hopes coming to this country. So he felt unable to thell them that he was bullied at school, began to retreat into himself and started to 'always feel different.' No insight? This turned out to be the first of many similar observations. Dr Eleanor Longden: "The question should not be: What is wrong with you?' - but: What happened to you?"
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