Uninvented Stories of Invented People
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Everything you knew about psychiatry and treatment of mentally disturbed people is wrong. The story of a young doctor girl, entering to be employed in a post-Soviet psychiatric hospital, unveils the true realia and drama behind the walls of the asylum. It narrates about career, professional growth, love and friendship, life ups and downs and emotional experience. However, the most important thing is that the book changes attitudes and people. You will never be the same after you read it.
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Svetlana Isaenko. Uninvented Stories of Invented People
Chapter first • Dear Nut House •
Chapter two • Dad •
Chapter three •Love •
Chapter four •Cornflower •
Chapter five •Julius •
Chapter six • Misha •
Chapter Seven •Alevtina •
Chapter Eight •Bun •
Chapter nine •Tinder •
Chapter ten •Vova •
Chapter eleven •Toxicology •
Chapter twelve •Shoes •
Сhapter N
Chapter fourteen •Boards •
Chapter fifteen • Angel •
Chapter sixteen • The Queen •
Chapter seventeen • Happiness •
Chapter Eighteen • Kid •
Chapter nineteen •A Million of Scarlet Roses •
Chapter Twenty • Gregory •
Chapter twenty one • Cyril the Bream •
Chapter twenty-two •Universe •
Chapter twenty three • A Night in Lisbon •
Epilogue
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We first met after my internship graduation. It was decorated with colorful autumn leaves under the blue sky, with the blue being distinctive and deep, unlike over the rest of the city. And there it stood sullen and sad, scattered across a hectare of land. Shabby buildings of historical significance were holding on majestically if only not to fall apart. It was saturated with human suffering, condemnation and, moldering bit by bit, rested on the time- worn post-Soviet regimen and principles. The bars on the windows added more to its dramatic appearance. Each building’s perimeter included closed courtyards for patients to walk outside. Ordinary people were afraid to even pass by. Shrouded in myths, it inspired horror. Crossing its territory brought some sort of tension. I was scared by its inhabitants, wandering aimlessly around the area in their strange clothes, with empty eyes and faded faces. Inside, there was a different world, the world with dissimilar rules, but down there inhabited the truth, – the truth of human relationships, of the depth of thought and of the omnifaceted internal pain.
That was the way I first-ever met my dear nut house.
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We measure my pressure: It is 80 over 50. I see Marina’s worried look. “All right, no worries. I have no intention to have my obituary written like:
‘During the patient’s examination the doctor had suddenly turned pale and died.’ What will the patient do then?”
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