On the BrinkPerhaps the truth is that severe mental illness is just as frightening, just as stigmatising, just as much a taboo as it has always been . . . Over the course of her forty year career, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Penelope Campling has worked with patients from all walks of life, from survivors of abuse to ICU doctors struggling under the strain of Covid 19. She has seen many positive changes in how we approach mental health and yet she is