To complement 91Èȱ¬ Radio Stoke's look at bipolar disorder (manic depression), Staffordshire online takes a look at how the condition has been treated in the past at St Edward's in Cheddleton.
Things have come a long way since the days of Staffordshire County Council's "Lunacy Committee" at the turn of last century.
One of that committee's biggest decisions was to build a specialist centre near Cheddleton - St Edward's Hospital - to treat mental health patients.
It opened in 1899 and was still a working hospital in 1975, when Max Chadwick (pictured above) started there as a Nursing Assistant.
He's now based at Harplands Hospital as a Clinical Coordinator and has recently co-written a book about St. Edward's.
After many years away, he took special journey back to the hospital where he started his career, for 91Èȱ¬ Staffordshire online. It wasn't long before he memories started flooding back…
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