Me and them

Abstract

This poem was inspired by my work with service users from Mind in the Vale, in Glamorgan, south Wales and contains several examples of their lived experience, thoughts and feelings. I felt that a poem captured more vividly their rejections by society and why they have settled, often for the protection of the ‘mental health ghetto’, even if it is a form of apartheid.

Citation

Butterworth, R. (2009), "Me and them", A Life in the Day, Vol. 13 No. 1, pp. 36-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/13666282200900010