Episode Seventeen: 1997 and 1974

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Episode Seventeen: 1997 and 1974

A generation apart, two teenage girls manage at Auchengate as best they can without their mothers

Lindsay Johnstone

Mar 27, 2024

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Episode Seventeen: 1997 and 1974

October 1997

Lindsay is 14. Her mother is an in-patient at Ailsa – the local psychiatric hospital – and she’s living at Auchengate with her brother and grandfather, Tom. But with her friends at school, she’s not talking about any of that. She’s got other things going on, not least her compulsion to beat her best friend, Nicole, in all their shared subjects.

March 1974

MaryEllen is 15. Her mother is an in-patient at Ailsa – the local psychiatric hospital – and she’s living at Auchengate with her brothers and father, Tom. School, though, offers her no refuge.

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What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone – Audio and Video including every episode of Held in Mind: A Memoir

Here you'll find every episode of my memoir, Held in Mind. You'll also find video interviews with fellow creative caregivers, which forms The Cost of Caring Series, and occasional video and audio on the big (and small) stuff of midlife.

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