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Doris Appiah: Bipolar and kept in chains

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Abused at a Ghanaian prayer camp which claimed it could cure mental illness

Tied to a tree and deprived of food - a former patient describes her ordeal at a prayer camp in Ghana which claimed it could cure her mental illness

Lucy Ash speaks to Doris Appiah, the Ghanaian woman who suffered abuse for years at a prayer camp which claimed it could cure her mental illness. Also, from the UK, we hear from Sandra O'Connor  who has 'faceblindness'- and very few friends as a result, and Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse, the legendary South African drummer, who went back to school 40 years after he dropped out

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