Mental Health Is Next For “Survey”

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32381, 21 August 1970, Page 3

Mental Health Is Next For “Survey”

“This is my dream . . . that I can be like everybody else. I envy the office girls trotting round town and buying things in their lunch hour.”

The girl talking is 21, attractive and intelligent. But she has been unable to hold down a job for more than a few weeks. She has been so depressed that she has tried to kill herself. Listening to her is a woman who has experienced the effects of deep loneliness, to the extent that she has developed a phobia about going outside. For three years she never left her house. Her husband and daughters had to cope with a woman who had become mentally sick. They are patients at Sunnyside Hospital, Christchurch, featured in “Survey” on Wednesday. There have been big changes at the hospital in recent years. In place of its purely custodial role it now provides intensive treatment. Most of the patients are there a matter of weeks only. The television crew spent nearly three weeks following a group of women patients. “We were delighted by the amount of co-operation we had from the staff and patients,” producer Bill Saunders said. “The patients soon accepted our presence and were very open talking about themselves and their problems before the camera. We hope that by bringing mental illness from behind the locked doors it will help remove some of the old attitudes about the subject.”

CHTV3 2.00 p.m.: Headline news. 2.03: Run For Your Life—“lt Could Only Happen in Rome.” Drama. 2.51: Black and White Minstrel Show. Variety. (Repeat) 3.35: He and She—“ The Background Man.” Comedy. (Repeat.) 4.00: The World of Lowell Thomas. Travel. 4.25: Young People’s Concerts. Music. 5.16: Tom Grattan’s War—“ The Night Intruder.” Adventure. 5.40: Headline news, weather. 5.43: Tomorrow Tpday. 5.56: Dr Who—“ The Tomb of the Cybermen.” First of four parts. Science fiction. 6.20: World Scene. 6.50: Sports Magazine. 7.00: Network news. 7.15: Weather. The South Tonight. 7.35: The Debbie Reynolds Show—“ln the Soup.” Comedy. 7.59: Les Miserables. Fourth of 10 parts—“ Buried Treasure.” 8.23: The Violent Universe. First of four-part documentary. 8.55: In View of the Circumstances. Variety. Highlights from first series. 9 25* Newsbrief 9.27: Film (1962): “Two Living, One Dead” (Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Patrick McGoohan). 10.55: Liberace. 11.07: Late news, weather. 11.14: Garrison’s Gorillas—“ The Frame-Up.” Adventure.

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