I have become known as a "high profile nutcase" prepared to speak out as a consumer of psychiatric and Mental health services. To go to the heart of the many issues involved with being a consumer of mental health services I have drawn these cartoons which present the issues in a humorous, satirical or ironical manner. Take the slideshow.

1. Accident and Emergency
2. Accident and Emergency 2
3. Admissions
4. Anti-stigma
5. Anti-stigma 2
6. Bizarre Illusion
7. Capacity
8. Changing Culture
9. Choices
10. Cisternic Issues
11. Clinical Partner
12. Closing the File
13. Coming to the Table
14. Communicating with the doctor
15. Communicating with the nurse
16. Complaints
17. Complaints Survival Guide
18. Compliance
19. Confessional
20. Consumer support structures
21. Consumers on Committees
22. De-institutionalisation
23. Desperation
24. Diagnosis
25. Faces of Distress
26. Fitness to Plead
27. Flying Free
28. Free Market
29. Global Burden of Disease
30. Global Dis-ease of Burden
31. Group Work
32. Health Literacy
33. Health Numeracy
34. Highbed turnover
35. Human Rights
36. Informed Consent
37. Job Interview
38. Keeping Mum
39. Language harms
40. Lease
41. Lilla Watson
42. Mainstream Services
43. Making a complaint
44. Medical Records
45. Mental health research
46. Mental health Service Centre
47. Mental Health system
48. Mental Health Week 1
49. Mental Health Week 2
50. Mental state examination
51. Non-biomed research
52. One in All in
53. One in Five
54. One secure bed
55. Partnership
56. Pharmacy service
57. Pre-charge planning
58. Redress injustice
59. Reflections
60. Research establishment
61. Sanity Fair
62. Secret Lives
63. Serious Illness
64. Shop
65. Shrink wrapped
66. Side-effects
67. Single session therapy
68. Soapbox
69. Social Context
70. Stigmanatril
71. The Consumer
72. The Team
73. Triage
74. Visiting the unit
75. Ward Program
76. Words make you sick