34 episodes

Open and honest discusion about what it's like living with mental health challenges on both sides of the medication cart. From both the sufferers and the carers point of view.

Both Sides Of The Medication Cart - With Bill and Kate Bill and Kate Rodgers

    • Health & Fitness

Open and honest discusion about what it's like living with mental health challenges on both sides of the medication cart. From both the sufferers and the carers point of view.

    Kate and Bill - Both Sides of the Medication Cart - Ending It All

    Kate and Bill - Both Sides of the Medication Cart - Ending It All

    The further adventures, if we can call it that, of Kate and her mental health struggles. In this episode, we find out that Kate has been welcomed back in to the fold of the hospital as long as she stope threating suicide. She feels well enough to go home for a visit to her mothers and sister, but this has disastrous consequences as Kate breaks all the house rules set by her sister and whilst at he mom and sister house, Kate overdoses and tries to take her own life. This is the first and last time Kate ever did this.

    • 20 min
    Kate and Bill - Both Sides of the Medication Cart - An Enemy Of The People.

    Kate and Bill - Both Sides of the Medication Cart - An Enemy Of The People.

    de of the medication cart, having been told by many she was going to be famous. Had that gone to her head? In this episode she admits it did. We also find her now, in the long term psychiatric hospital, the notorious Whitby; she starts to feel worse and even threatens to take her own life, the consequences of which are devastating. The ward was locked and Kate confined to her bed space. Then, the whole ward decided to have a meeting, and it was the whole ward, from cleaners to patients and the staff too. They put Kate in the middle of a circle and took a vote on whether or not Kate should stay on the ward or not. Even though Kate liked being the centre of attention, she did not mean like this. Here she felt like An enemy of the People.

    • 19 min
    Kate and Bill - Both Sides of the Medication Cart - I was Warehoused.

    Kate and Bill - Both Sides of the Medication Cart - I was Warehoused.

    Moving on with Kate journey of her mental illness struggles. We now find Kate in the talked about Psychiatric Unit, Whitby Psychiatric hospital. Here she decides it is not that bad until the night time, when she, for the first time encounters a self harmer. Things get that bad for Kate she stops bathing and doing here laundry, till eventually she runs out of clean clothes. She now fells even more ill than she did before she arrived and as she says, she felt warehoused.

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    • 18 min
    Kate and Bill - Both Sides of the Medication Cart - Hopeless.

    Kate and Bill - Both Sides of the Medication Cart - Hopeless.

    More in the story of Kate and how she ended up on the wrong side of the medication cart, having been told by many she was going to be famous. Had that gone to her head? In this episode she admits it did. We also find her now, in the long term psychiatric hospital, the notorious Whitby; only it seems to be not that notorious. But again, Kate feels hopeless.



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    • 18 min
    Kate and Bill - Both Sides of the Medication Cart - Notorious Whitby

    Kate and Bill - Both Sides of the Medication Cart - Notorious Whitby

    Another powerful episode in which Kate reveals that she is now very scared of the prospect of being sent to the Notorious Psychiatric Hospital - Whitby. Hospital which is only spoken about in whispers. It is a place where people where sent to and never went home again. She tell us about the tear and about her single bed space, This is a very gripping episode of the girl most likely to succeed but sadly, at this point in her life, didn't.

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    • 19 min
    Kate and Bill - Both Sides of the Medication Cart - The Wife Of A Crocodile Hunter

    Kate and Bill - Both Sides of the Medication Cart - The Wife Of A Crocodile Hunter

    Continuing the story of the Canadian actress, Kate. In this episode we find her at home with her mother and sister, having been discharged from the general hospital, again! But, Kate's road to recovery hits a pot hole when she gets over exited about going to the movies with her brother. Unbeknownst to Kate, she passes in to the world of psychosis when she becomes convinced that she is the star of the movie and believes herself to the wife of the crocodile hunter in the box office hit, Crocodile Dundee.



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    • 18 min

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