A friendship dating back to teenage years is one to treasure, especially during a crisis

It’s not easy to maintain the closeness of relationships of our youth but Abigail Dean will always make time for the friend she grew up withIn early 2006, when I was 17, I was admitted to a well-known psychiatric hospital in the UK, an institution most associated with models and footballers. I was neither. I was a schoolgirl who had suffered from either a chemical imbalance in the brain or a series of poor life decisions, depending on who you asked. For two months I was to live in a small