title: Our experience of psychological difficulties and mental illness.
abstract: Steve Flatt seems to take issue with the notion of mental illness (reflections September 12), referring to 'psychological distress' and 'psychological difficulties', but without defining what he means by these terms.
authors.affiliation: Mental health nursing, Oxford Brookes University.
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wellman