DEPRESSION – A NURSE'S EXPERIENCE
shadows of life
2010218 pages Hardback
ISBN-10 1846193052
ISBN-13 9781846193057
Veronica Burton, paediatric nurse
Foreword by Paul Farmer
Description
PATIENT NARRATIVES SERIES
Veronica Burton’s first experience of depression came as a teenager. Following a ten year remission, during which she gained her general nursing qualification and completed her Special and Intensive Nursing of the Newborn course, work-related events precipitated a depressive relapse that has lasted to the present day. Since her retirement on medical grounds, she has campaigned against prejudice by nurses toward other nurses - including mental health nurses - who need psychological support of any kind.
This book recounts the author’s experiences of major depression, hospital admissions and treatments including medication, ECT and 'talking treatments'. It discusses the care given by medical and nursing staff and social and medical prejudices against those with psychiatric illnesses from a medical practitioner’s perspective.
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Like stumbling on a secret room in a familiar building. In illuminating these previously inaccessible corners of her illness experience, she forces me to challenge my own taken-for-granted version of her history. Familiar territory seen from another perspective suddenly seems perturbing. As psychiatrists, too often we are drawn into seeing people through a lens of illness, as if this was their only identity.
Veronica Burton’s Psychiatrist Nick Rose in his Postscript
Review Quotes 'Well-written narratives of suffering from depression and experience of the associated treatments provide the reader with a glimpse of how a patient perceives the caring profession. I would recommend this book to all in the caring profession because it contains many insightful aspects that we can learn from. It is a remarkable and intriguing journey.' JOURNAL OF PERIOPERATIVE PRACTICE
 Chapter 1: Childhood Chapter 2: Meningitis Chapter 3: University Chapter 4: Staff nurse on SCBU Chapter 5: Psychiatric out-patient appointment Chapter 6: First night on Chapter 7: Interview with registrar Chapter 8: Nurses try to persuade me to have ECT Chapter 9: Off close observations Chapter 10: Community meetings Chapter 11: Discharge Chapter 12: Australia - Fears before going Chapter 13: Lithium levels raised Chapter 14: Visits from family Chapter 15: My sister Chapter 16: Moira’s criticism Chapter 17: Start at Great Ormond Street Chapter 18: Moved from ward Chapter 19: Breakup Chapter 20: Stigma of mental Chapter 21: Allitt case Chapter 22: My present situation
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