Life on a Mental Health Ward: First few days

One never gets used to being in a mental/psychiatric hospital.  Every stay is a new experience.  It is also another detour in one’s desperate escape from the enemy of mental illness.

The insane asylum, loony bin, nuthouse, cuckoo house, padded palace, crazy house – alternative names used to refer to mental hospital!

All types of mental health ailments are represented in the ward with people at various stages of recovery (or at least were in those times).  There were patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act and voluntary patients like myself. 

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When Mental Illness strikes a marriage – Walking in my shoes

It is said there is an elevated risk of divorce when a spouse is challenged with mental illness.   The cycle of emotions that the caring spouse endures make this risk pronounced, as sentiments towards the other run high and scorch desert dry.  Everyone and thing gets affected.  The kids, the extended family, the friends, the pets et al.

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