Editorial

As this is my final edition as editor of A Life in the Day, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on what has happened in the mental health field since we started the journal back in June 1997. In my first editorial I wrote of the colleagues who formed the first editorial board:‘The most fundamental thing we have in common is a belief in the vital importance of enabling people who have used mental health services to find a role and a voice beyond that of patient, beyond also that of user representative … well, how about friend, colleague, manager, employee, therapist, partner, coworker in the struggle that is life in the day.’