A review by sarahxify
Hospital by Sanya Rushdi

challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

Me: This has nothing to do with lithium, my mood was always stable. I was angry, it seemed wrong to force medication on me, and that was mistaken for mood instability. I'm not angry anymore because I have explained to myself that if I refuse the prescribed drugs, I'll be given others instead. Which is why I've decided that I'll continue to take lithium, even though it's poison. Or else I'll be killed even  more quickly with other kinds of poison. 
Dr Nevin: I can see you're still lacking in insight. You still don't realise there is something wrong with you. 
Me: There's nothing particularly wrong with me. And even if there is, medication is not the right way to treat it. 
Dr Nevin: What is the right way in your view? 
Me: With language. Through conversations. 
Dr Nevin: That's possible too. Counselling can be arranged simultaneously with medication.