I Finally Had ECT
After the long wait for ECT, actually having it was, of course, utterly anticlimactic. I had to leave home at 04h30 to be in the ward by 06h00, by that […]
After the long wait for ECT, actually having it was, of course, utterly anticlimactic. I had to leave home at 04h30 to be in the ward by 06h00, by that […]
I still haven’t had ECT. I haven’t had it because the head anaesthetist at the hospital won’t do the general anaesthetic for it, because he considers it barbaric. He goes […]
My whole soul rebels against structured things, always. I think I spent the first two months “forgetting” to do various cognitive behavioural therapy homework assignments. The week she finally said, […]
I wish I could tell you that this blog post was sponsored by a pharmaceutical company, but you know, the medical professionals get the perks, we just get an ever […]
Do you ever get that variety of stress where you feel quite stoned? The state hospital I go to is around an hour’s drive away and this morning was the […]
“This is the worst I’ve seen you in almost a year.” I wasn’t so bad though… The patient ahead of me wore bright yellow overalls stamped ‘remand/detainee’ and clanked past […]
-“My nighttime sedation… my little piece of heaven the hours I’m not conscious of what’s happening in my reality”
A woman shambled past, smiling and singing to her god and looking bemused at the washing line looped loosely around her wrists by the family members with her. Nkosi yam… […]
Tēnā koutou, Sanibonani, Hello, Howzit ek sê Greetings from the Land of the Long White Cloud, Aotearoa/New Zealand. I’m an ex-pat South African originally hailing from (I’m sure my greetings […]
It’s very easy in South Africa, to indulge in mournful and negative opinions of our country and bleak predictions for its future. The haves frequently renew their foreign passports and […]