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Written 24-May-12
I thought I might write a little about myself as otherwise anybody stumbling on this site at random won’t have a clue. I was born British (in Luton Bedfordshire to be precise) on 12-Apr-56 to parents who married in their thirties and I am an only child. I did well at school and obtained a place at St Catharine’s College Cambridge where I studied Mathematics from 1974 to 1977 coming out with a 2.1. In the summer of 1977 I started work at Dudley Council (Dudley in the West Midlands in England) but this accountancy traineeship only lasted three years before I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and conveyed to a three months’ detention in Barnsley Hall Hospital one of the old County Asylums (in Worcestershire) since demolished.
This marked the start of what I’m sure will be a lifetime of treatment for mental illness. A lot of my website concerns itself with the treatment I have been given (no charge) over the years. Documents relating to the first few years of the treatment will be found at Mental History.
I lived with my parents till they died, both in 2003, and then for several years I declined medication on the basis that I had suffered from very high dosages in the decades since 1980. In 2004 I got married and from 2004 to 2010 I was thinking very creatively but too effusively. This caused me the difficulty of wasting a lot of money. I am now accepting the prescribed medication and thinking its good side outweighs its bad this since I am now on the lowest dose which can be prescribed of Risperdal Consta (that is the injection format). Examples of my effusive thinking may be found in the Correspondence section of the website.
While in earlier years I kept a diary in paper notebooks - going back to 1972 in fact - since 2003 I have been relying on typing on my computer. Examples of my earlier handwritten diary may be found under Writings from the past while the computerised version (in a fairly complete form) is in two parts: colinbrough.co.uk for 2003-2006 (in fact including example diary entries from 2001 and 2002 as well) and Blog for the recent years. Since early April 2012 I have been putting my diary on my Blogger blog and this will probably continue (in the years 2007-2009 a few but only a few entries got onto Blogger).
Some of the rest of my website exposes the concern I had around 2009 that my post was being interfered with, plus a general expression of the resentment I feel (and felt very keenly before I was on the present régime of medication) in relation to the high dosages of medication enforced by my former NHS psychiatrist Anthony Dew Armond.
- the most average person could tell you that people respond differently to drugs and some individuals have particular sensitivities to certain drugs (or classes of drugs) -