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Submitted to Contest #102
I’m losing faith in the inpatient unit I’m stuck in. I’m losing faith in the whole mental health system. My thoughts are clouded by the dots. They dance around the front and edges of my vision. They swirl, dive, and connect to each other. Where do they come from? I have no idea. Maybe I’m mad, maybe I’m not. The only thing the staff have done about my anxiety is offer me lorazepam. I hate tablets, we’ll get to why later. You can hear the cackling, that turns to screaming, of the other patients a mile away. It is a high pitched, unforg...
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