![]() ![]() In the intake interview, the nurse asks me if I would "give it up easily in here?"īy which she means: am I going to have sex with the other patients? I've only been in hospital 10 minutes when I realise it is not the place I thought it was going to be. Until you can't bring yourself to tell your friends about it any longer. It's like when you have a break up and you just can't stop hurting. Sure, I know it's serious and I want to die and everything, but also I don't want to bother everyone with how desperate and self-pained I am. I package it into consumable chunks because the reality is a lot more sad and weary, rather than funny or witty. This is most of the story that I tell the world. ![]() I've spent the last week hiding these cheese parcels in my room, and I've accumulated quite the stockpile.Īnd it's not just the story I tell my family. So you can raid those wards for their supply. But these little golden squares of joy are in limited supply, which is why there's something of a cheese-based economy in here.Ī few days after I arrive, one girl tells me there are a couple of wards - geriatric and, well, eating disorders - where they're not that interested in cheese. The crackers also come with these tiny squares of individually plastic-wrapped cheese. The kitchenette drawers in each ward are full of the things, as if maybe the hospital won a lifetime supply of crackers in some late night dial-in TV game show. To understand this, you need to know one thing: there are almost no good snack options in a psych hospital.īesides the vending machines full of junk food (an oddly depressing detail), the main snacks on offer are individually-wrapped packets of three savoury crackers. If you are struggling these resources can help.Ĭheese to a psych hospital is what cigarettes are to prison. In this story Honor talks about her experiences dealing with suicide and the mental health system. ![]()
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