Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

My life in a lunatic asylum

After a while I forgot what the bounds of normal behaviour were

‘I can vouch for the fact that one gets to enjoy the wider parameters to be found in a psychiatric ward’. Credit: Allstar Picture Library Limited. / Alamy Stock Photo 
issue 11 March 2023

I can see why rock stars and other impetuous celebrity types accidentally top themselves with drug cocktails. When you are spaced out on medicaments it’s easy to forget what you have or haven’t taken. A month ago I was prescribed a dose of corticosteroids to see off a chest infection: 60mg a day for four days.

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