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From a mental health ward room

Blurred faces at the small window 

Don't even know how to begin though

They peak for a sneak

From here it seems bleak

Looking and checking 200 times a week 

They bang the doors

And shout in the halls

Gone zen flatline 

So they're mostly ignored. 

◄ Stoners lilt

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Manish Singh Rajput

Fri 21st Apr 2023 14:16

I hope you get through it soon Jed. Let me know if I could be of any help to you. And thank you for passing the information about the book. I'll surely give it a read.
Thank you.

Jed

Fri 21st Apr 2023 12:14

Thanks, I'm still on this ward in a room with a door with a little window. I hate me being here. Its probably a good place for a lot of the other patients but not for me. I should have been left at home to get through what I needed to.
Thanks for your concern.
The heroic. Journalist Patric Cockburn wrote an illustrated book with his son who suffered schizophrenia. His sons artwork really captures the ambient vibe of these places. Sorry I can't remember the title. But you can find it under Patrick Cockburn.
Jed

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Manish Singh Rajput

Fri 21st Apr 2023 04:29

Reading this and picturing it was heartbreaking for me. Briskly written and thought provoking. Also, I strongly believe in "mental health above everything", and such treatment and ignorance only makes it more hard for people to get cured.
Thank you.

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