Letter: Thanks for the Middy coverage

This is not an easy subject but one which society has to address if it is to be regarded as humane and caring. When a local paper reports, in a quality fashion, on mental health service provision and how mental illness affects the individual, then it is to be congratulated for espousing a cause which is distant from many people’s hearts. Well done and thank you to the Middy.

Philip Forsyth’s story (9.10.2014) was so informative and touching. He, and reporter Oli Gross, brought out extremely well the daily living issues which are such an integral part of living with a major mental illness such as biploar/manic depression , depression itself or schizophrenia.