The Locked Ward
The Locked Ward episode 3
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PART 3 (Concluding Part) That person was Mama Bisi, my aunt’s longtime housekeeper, retired now, living quietly in a small compound in Ibadan, the only member of that household still alive from those ten critical days. I visited her the following week, carrying the folder, my hands unsteady the entire drive. She received me warmly
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PART 2 The folder contained a full second medical opinion, dated just three weeks after my mother’s original admission, from a psychiatrist named Dr. Folasade Michael, someone I had never once heard mentioned during those four years of visits and updates. Her assessment was clear, direct, and completely at odds with everything I had believed.
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The Locked Ward
- 23 hours ago
I signed the papers to place my mother in a private psychiatric ward eleven years ago, on the advice of doctors who insisted her condition was severe and untreatable outside professional care, and last month, cleaning out my late aunt’s house, I found a folder proving my mother had never been mentally ill a single
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