Dr Kim Foster

<p>As a globally respected expert on mental health nursing, Dr Kim Foster has spent decades researching the causes and impacts of mental illnesses. She tells Pamela how she spent much of her childhood in a care home, as a result of her mother’s severe mental illness. </p><p>Our Time is a UK charity dedicated to supporting&nbsp;children and young people affected by parental mental illness.&nbsp;</p><p>If you would like to support children and young people who are living with parental mental illness, please consider making a donation at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ourtimecharity.org.uk/donate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.ourtimecharity.org.uk/donate</a></p><p>If you are affected by anything you hear in this podcast, there are people you can talk. Talk to your GP, or reach out&nbsp;to the Samaritans for confidential, emotional support,&nbsp;visit&nbsp;<a href="http://www.samaritans.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.samaritans.org</a>&nbsp;</p><p>Please n...