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Introduction - not a survivor's guide; Legoland and holes in the head - mania; the pits - depression; lost in Fife - the beginning; flaming buckets - Stratheden psychiatric hospital; pay and free uniform - Kingseat psychiatric hospital; talking to God - suicide; Christopher Columbus, David Livingstone and me - work; one of us - famous manic depressives; babes in my moods - paranoia; not work, not working - breakdown; sideways through the torphins HaLF-edj - ambulance journey; pantiled peep show - Cornhill psychiatric hospital; psychos! Acute psychiatric ward; tack short of a fitted carpet - synonyms; the last time I saw Linda - electro-convulsive therapy; sweet violets - the psychotherapist; sweating it out with the professionals - doctors and nurses; ...and mopped up by Ethel - hospital appearances; concessionville - getting around; show folks - social wipeout; the choir lady - making things worse; only a salt - prescription drugs; another way of being - something to celebrate?