A Nest of Cuckoos
Shockingly funny, yet true, stories from within the walls of the asylum, where the staff are as damaged as the patients. Unbelievable tales that will make you laugh out loud while wincing at the detail, recounted by the author of 'I flew into the Cuckoo's Nest'. 'Madhouse Memoirs' from a jaw-dropping 12-year career in psychiatric nursing.This is definitely NOT a recruitment advert for mental health nursing!This is a hard-hitting reality show. It's a 'warts and all' account, meaning not just the warts, but the halitosis and skid marks also.The author didn't come out unscathed; it took its...
Legal Violence
This episode covers chapters 8-11
8. Becoming a mental nurse
9. 'Snot fair
10. Forensic Gump
11. Control and a little restraint
Parker from Thunderbirds, manual faecal evacuations, ridiculous management egos, smashing up toilets and weaponising yucca plants. A crazy way to earn your rent.
The Thin Vessel
Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, Chapters 4-7
4. Why, though? Are you mad?
5. Thin Vessel
6. Pitch Battle
7. Breakfast Baps.
A Narrow Boat holiday from hell, a football match in hell, and plenty of debauchery.
My mental health takes a battering - I guess I was getting paid!
Welcome to the Cuckoo's Nest
This is the first episode of 10-15 based on the book 'I Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest'
This covers the first three chapters of a personal account from within the walls of the asylum. Very funny, but also a hard-hitting reality show that's not sugar-coated; it's 'warts and all', meaning not only the warts, but also the halitosis and skid marks.
A cynical, darkly comic memoir-turned-series about a misfit mental health nurse surviving (barely) the absurd horrors of 1980's psychiatric care, where the line between caregiver and patient blurs in a broken system.
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