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Radio 4,4 mins

'My son wasn't 'the right kind of ill' to get help'

Woman's Hour

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Caroline Aldridge's eldest son Tim had a bipolar disorder and he passed away before he could access treatment. She talks to Andrea Catherwood on Woman's Hour about her book "He Died Waiting " which outlines why she thinks mental health services failed him.

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