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Mental health: ethnic minority carers’ experiences
People's stories
People caring for a son or daughter
Nick - Interview 02
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Nick and his wife have cared for their son with paranoid schizophrenia for almost 12 years. In the beginning Nick didn't feel heard by ...
Agnes - Interview 29
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Agnes has been caring for her daughter, who has OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and depression, for four years.
Miriam - Interview 05
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Miriam carers for her son who is in his late twenties. He has been diagnosed with schizophrenia but she thinks what he has is drugs ...
Tina - Interview 18
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Tina cares for her son who suffers from mental health problems and she is also working as a carer for people with mental health problems ...
Jane - Interview 22
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For the last 20 years Jane and her husband has cared for their daughter Sarah, who has schizophrenia. She worries about what will happen to ...
Sarah - Interview 25
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Sarah cares for her son who has schizophrenia. She is active in several carer's oganisations.
Leah - Interview 28
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Leah has been caring for her son Albert with schizophrenia for 17 years.
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