Schizophrenia, paranoia, senile dementia and even less specific everyday anxieties and depressions can all be as distressing to the patient's family and friends as they are to the patient, not least because of lack of information about the nature and efficacy of available treatments.
Dr Anthony Clare , Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, and Dr Denis Friedman , Lecturer in psycho-sexual medicine at St Bartholomew's
Hospital, provide some of that information in response to listener's queries.
The programme is chaired by Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour unit