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. Mental Health Literacy
33. Mental Health Numeracy
34. Highbed turnover
35. Human Rights
36. Informed Consent
37. Job Interview
38. Keeping Mum, Mental Illness at Work
39. Language harms
40. Lease
41. Medication Menu
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. Advance Directives
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
77. Psychiatric Assessment - Acute Unit Admission
78. Acute Unit Roundabout
79. A visit from the CAT Team
80. Christmas in the 'Mood Disorders' Unit
81. Staff Run Community Ward Meetings No 1, Staff Perspective
82. Staff Run Community Ward Meetings No 2, Patient Perspective
83. DSM Greatest Hits No IV
84. The Education of a Psychiatric Registrar - a week in the Acute Unit
85. Intoxicated Visitors
86. Mental Health Service - Locked In - Locked Out - Locked Up
87. Managing Patients
88. Mental Health Service System's Triage Arrangements
89. The Mood Motel
90. Nedication Queue
91. Path to Mental Wellbeing
92. Recovery
93. Resting
94. Staff Development Program
95. 'Staff Splitting Guns' Special
96. Therapeutic Alliance
97. Three Faces of Distress - A study in medical judgement 2007
98. Triage No 2
99. Ward Program 1
100. Ward Program 2