A positive result on the Liberating the NHS conversation

So my mate agreed with me. I was surprised by that. He said something
along the lines that the medical hegemony should be aware.

I somewhat cocked up making my point. Sadly he'd not heard about the
risk of antipsychotics. He assumed they were only used in intensive care
units. The story of how the dementia patients were being killed should
have been one of the most significant stories in the medical profession
in the last few years. Turns out he, like many doctors, didn't know just
how many people were being killed because their behaviour was
undesireable and the social ugliness could be 'treated' by chemicals.

There was another person on the conversation and I think she got the
point though. Getting a doctor to agree to the value of the psychosocial
model of mental health and it's relevance to treatment for schizophrenia
is a bigger victory perhaps. A small step in a long, unhappy road.