I think kids whose parents have mental health problems are often completely overlooked, and I speak partly from personal experience. I don't understand why nobody thought to check out how everyone else in the family was being affected. I didn't have a childhood because of my dad's issues and how they affected everyone, and that's a very high price to pay.

I have always wished that someone had sat down with me properly to talk about things, explain things to me, find out how I was feeling, etc, but I had nobody. People say my mum must have done her best but her best sucked. I can think of a lot of ways in which I would do better, so I feel very hurt and angry.