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Graham Morgan helped to write the Scottish Mental Health (2003) Care and Treatment Act. This is the Act under which he is now detained. His story addresses mental illness from a perspective that is not heard frequently: that of those whose illness is so severe that they are subject to the Mental Health Act.

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Graham was born in 1963 in York. He went to university as an angst-ridden student and was quickly admitted to one of the old mental asylums, prompting the work he has done for most of his life: helping people with mental illness speak up about their lives and their rights. He has mainly worked in Scotland, where he has lived for the last thirty years, twenty of them in the Highlands. In the course of this work he has been awarded an MBE, made Joint Service User Contributor of the Year by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and, lately, has spoken at the UN about his and other peoples' experiences of detention. He has a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia and has been compulsorily treated under a CTO for the last nine years. He currently lives in Argyll with his partner and her young twins. Start is his first book.

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