Bloodletting by Victoria Leatham

Author:Victoria Leatham [Leatham, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medical, Mental Health, Psychology, Psychopathology, General
ISBN: 9781741141573
Google: 1ZPomSZ1kL0C
Amazon: 1572244577
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2005-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

It took several days before we agreed that I did need to take something and what that ‘something’ might be. For the first time I felt as though I wasn’t being patronised. I was being consulted. I agreed to start on another mood stabiliser,Tegretol.And he referred me to a dermatologist for my skin.There were drugs around that could fix it.

When I was able to get up, the first thing I did was head downstairs for a cigarette.After the third visit,I started to talk to the other smokers, and began to feel a bit more like myself. I then called two people—my aunt to let her know where I was, and an old childhood friend, Josh.

My aunt was obviously uncomfortable about the situation, in the same way my parents always were. I told her very little but the fact I was in a psychiatric hospital was enough. She suggested that we keep it quiet, and particularly that we shouldn’t tell either of my grandmothers,who both lived close by.After all,I was supposed to be better, all of ‘this kind of thing’ was supposed to have been left behind.

Josh reacted in a very different way when I told him where I was. He was a builder and football player, and I’d not been sure about what he’d say but I wanted to speak to someone. Someone without an agenda. It was odd, we’d spent most of our childhoods together, and then when we’d left the property that was it. I hadn’t seen him for fifteen years, until I arrived in Adelaide. Despite the gap, it was as if we’d only seen each other the previous week. His girlfriend had been incredibly jealous of this connection,which had made us laugh but her angry.As a result, I had seen nothing of him since moving to the beach.

He turned up an hour later, looking impossibly healthy and cheerful.‘So what on earth are you doing here, darl?’

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