INTERVIEW - WARNING FOR BLACK MEN WHO THINK MENTAL INSTITUTION ARE BETTER THAN PRISON!!
Channel: Blackbright News
Date: 2019-08-18

This is an interview was conducted with a social worker quite a while ago, so the telephone number aired is not valid and conditions and treatment, hopefully, have vastly improved since then, but it was true at the time of the video, which was within the last 10 years.

Her correct name is not used, but she has  first hand experience with mental health clients.  I invited her when I was a radio presenter on a London Radio station.  

The content of this video relates to black men detained in mental health institutions and will be an eye-opener, I am sure.

The quality of the video is not fantastic, because I had to reformat it, but hopefully it serves its purpose.

I am enclosing supportive links below for your information

Shenley Psychiatric hospital - is the hospital the social worker was referring to in Hitchin.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electroconvulsive-therapy-a-history-of-controversy-but-also-of-help/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2462653/Haunting-images-abandoned-mental-hospital-patients-subject-cruel-treatments.html

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/statistics/mental-health-statistics-black-asian-and-minority-ethnic-groups

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40495539

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/mental-health-act-detained-sectioned-ethnic-minority-bme-report-nhs-a8669246.html

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/health/access-to-treatment/detentions-under-the-mental-health-act/latest

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