To complement BBC Radio Stoke's look at bipolar disorder (manic depression), Staffordshire online takes a look at how the condition has been treated in the past at St Edward's in Cheddleton.
Things have come a long way since the days of Staffordshire County Council's "Lunacy Committee" at the turn of last century.
One of that committee's biggest decisions was to build a specialist centre near Cheddleton - St Edward's Hospital - to treat mental health patients.
It opened in 1899 and was still a working hospital in 1975, when Max Chadwick (pictured above) started there as a Nursing Assistant.
He's now based at Harplands Hospital as a Clinical Coordinator and has recently co-written a book about St. Edward's.
After many years away, he took special journey back to the hospital where he started his career, for BBC Staffordshire online. It wasn't long before he memories started flooding back…
