"God Has it come to this?" Meet Grace, white-haired, with dementia,
being admitted to the daunting asylum with an unwelcome
introduction from the student nurse. Then Percy, the crystal radio
buff, with depression. Here is Harry, the Japanese ex-POW, whose
bath-time is a re-living of battles fought and Walter, with the
dodgy and less than faithful, girl-friend. What about Tom, who is
getting secret signs from both the Newscaster on the BBC as well as
the landlady of the local pub, or Betty who won't fit in the
coffin, and needs a bit of encouragement? But also meet Stuart, the
very novice student nurse fearfully working on nights, standing
there being strangled, not knowing what to do, or trying to come to
grips on his first day on the ward with shaving a corpse. Learn
about what goes on in the long asylum corridor & how to survive
the laws of the asylum jungle. Stuart has to rely on information
from the unlikeliest of sources, the Social Club hard drinkers.
Asylum Bound is a wild weird walk through the experiences of a
student nurse as he enters the unknown world of the mental "asylum"
of the 1970s. It is a bizarre world, a world of terrible extremes.
Within this odd place there are Hogarthian characters of varying
chaotic hues, some aggressive, some sad, some disturbed and some
institutionalised, both patients and staff. It is in this strange
world that Stuart begins to understand the origins of psychiatry
and its terrible treatments, including lobotomies, E.C.T., insulin
shock and even aversion therapy for underwear snatchers. He has to
learn about schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, new and frightening
conditions that had new and frightening treatments and outcomes.
But he finds an asylum coming to the end of any usefulness it might
ever once have had. The patients are leaving, the staff are
changing, and, thank God, the abuses are declining. It is a
different world from anything he has experienced before. It is a
very new world. It is a life-changing revelation. For Stuart, what
started as a novelty, progressed to fascination and was to end in
tragedy. It was the start of a long psychiatric nursing career. It
is, sadly, all true.
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