ABSTRACT
Hints and strategies If it is not elemental cognitions that make you depressed, or mad, but your very life itself, then you have to change the narrative, the story. Obviously the events in Chapter 5 should not have happened. Any admission to a psychiatric unit, a prison, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre and perhaps also a divorce court is essentially a failure of prevention. It could have been that in the landscape of pain that seems to have been Manchester life in the first half of the twentieth century (both my parents were born in the first two years of the century) my mother (and the school bullying ring) came to feel that hate and cruelty would always win.
