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In 2000 Dennis O'Donnell was approached to are an orderly in the Intensive Psychiatric Attention Unit of a sizable medical center in central Scotland. 'I have no idea if I'm the man you want,' he told the Demand Nurse. 'I'm not a fighter.' 'I don't need fighters,' the Nurse replied. 'I need people who can hear.' The Locked Ward is an remarkable memoir that sets out to expose the true account of life in a psychiatric ward - worries, the violence and despair, as well as the care and the compassion. Recounting the stories of the patients he caused, and those of the friends he made on the ward, O'Donnell offers a detailed profile of day-to-day life behind the gates of the very most feared and stigmatised environment in professional medical. In doing this, he examines the major mental disorders, their symptoms and manifestations, and how certain sets off such as religion, sex, wealth, health and drugs bear affect; the methods of treatment, by medication, therapy and discussion; the love and support of patients' relatives and buddies members; success stories and failures, and behaviour to psychiatric disorder, both by the government bodies, by those around him - and his own. Over seven years O'Donnell witnessed the day-to-day lives of men and women experiencing the most hair-raising diseases. What emerges is a doc of mankind and humour, a remarkable memoir that sheds light on a global that still remains mainly unknown.
