Ward D

Ward D

Author: Freida McFadden Listening Length: 7h 19m

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hou...

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E ven though we talk for another twenty minutes, Will never opens up to me again—not the way he did when I brought up John Irving. I even try talking about books again later in our conversation, but the walls are already up. He doesn’t trust me.

I guess that’s what you call paranoia . The antipsychotics might have gotten rid of the voices in his head, but some of the symptoms of his schizophrenia remain.

I have to pass by the seclusion room on the way back to the nursing station.

I walk quietly, scared that the man inside is somehow watching me.