By Joy Ford ISBN: 978-1-84747-173-4 Published: 2007 Pages: 190 Key
Themes: carer's story, grief, poetry, schizophrenia, mental health
services, suicide With this book I want people to realise that even
if you do manage to get help for a loved one who has become
seriously mentally ill, it does not mean they are safe from harming
themselves. Hospitals are only as good as the staff that run them.
'Care In The Community' is very spasmodic, especially in rural
areas. I also want people to realise that seriously mentally ill
people are not people to fear, they want to feel, and be treated as
'normal' like everyone else. - Joy Ford Description 'One In Four'
uses a mixture of prose and poetry to tell the important and tragic
story of a teenage boy who becomes seriously mentally ill, with
paranoid schizophrenia, from a mother's point of view. It travels
with her and her son through the quagmire of 'Care In The
Community' and the problems of living on the cusp of two counties.
This excellent narrative shows how people can slip through the net,
leading, in this instance, to the death of a very much loved child,
brother, and grandson. by the neglect of the hospital he was in.
The story travels through the effect this tragedy has had on the
mother and the struggle she has coming to terms with the loss of
her son. This is a wonderfully poignant, if emotionally involving
book. A fitting memorial to Edward. About the Author I found
writing this cathartic though upsetting at times. It brought back
my troubled childhood, though I do not go into detail in my book,
and a difficult twenty-five year marriage. The highlights in my
life were also remembered; three years studying art, my teenage
years in the sixties when I felt free and had fun. The birth of my
three beautiful children, and the love I feel for them, the
publication of my first book in 1985 and several poems over the
years. Meeting a man who accepts me for who and what I am with no
expectations, my lovely grandchildren and extended family. Sweet
memories of my youngest child, but also the pain of him not being
in my life, something that will always be with me. in some way, and
am hoping to help in an art and craft group with the Gemini Project
in Oxford. Book Extract THE BEGINNING Scared of rejection Or to be
placed in a fool collection In a class of my own Teaching myself to
be alone I try not to listen But thoughts don't stop, Making their
own conviction They are causing demolition. If only I could lock
away my brain, I'm sure I could gain remorse And find a girl to put
me back on course. We were walking along the side of St. James Park
in London on a warm June evening when she turned to me and suddenly
said, Edward's death was his gift to you. You must remember that. I
felt shaken by her words and the familiar hot feeling of unshed
tears burned behind my eyes and my throat ached, all I could say
was What? Edward taking his own life, it was his gift to you. You
must realise if he had lived he would have killed you or murdered a
member of your family.
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