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Lost and found: voices from the forgotten generation
- Author:
- RETHINK
- Publisher:
- Rethink
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- Kingston upon Thames
Mental health has for decades been treated asthe “Cinderella service,” though for the past six years, it has sat alongside cardiac care and cancer as one of the government’s three health priorities. Its priority status has led to a period of dramatic reform and, in certain areas, dramatic investment. However, this period of reform has bypassed many people. The reform process has focused predominately on crisis support but not on those who have been within the mental health system for some years. This campaign highlights the needs of a group of people called the ‘forgotten generation’. These are people with severe mental illness living in the community who have been largely forgotten by mainstream mental health services. For the most part, these are the people who have lived with a severe mental illness for many years, passing through and surviving a series of early crises, feeling rejected by society and who now live their lives without the all-round help and support that would allow them to raise their quality of life.