SUE Hunt, chief executive of Worcestershire Community and Mental Health NHS Trust (Evening News, Friday, January 19) said: "There is a stigma attached to being a patient.
"Around 80 per cent of the population suffer from some kind of mental health problem during their lifetime."
As someone who has been through the real hell of mental illness, can I just say that what the mentally ill need, above all, are to be treated as fellow human beings, and not as some sort of aliens.
Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the people who stand out in my past are those who related to me as "George" and didn't secretly snigger at me.
GEORGE COWLEY,
Windermere Drive,
Worcester
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