Book description
'When my father died, I stayed off school to look after my mother. I
was fourteen and was as incapable of looking after her as she was at
looking after me. She took to wandering the roads and was soon taken
into hospital. The social worker asked me if I wanted to be fostered
and I said yes.
Two years later, in 1975, I was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
That was the beginning of it all: medication, ECT, the locked ward.
I've been sectioned five times, in and out of asylums, homeless
hostels, squats and on the streets. I nearly hit the end of the road.
But then, almost overnight, my life turned round.
Sectioned is my story.'
John O'Donoghue
