
Naomi Jackson talks 'losing and finding my mind'
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The Importance of Being a Good Person
In 1972, my beloved maternal grandmother was admitted for the first of many times to the psychiatric hospital in Barbados. Jenkins is known colloquially as Jenkins after the former plantation on which it sits. Granny called her father and stepmother's house at all hours of day and night looking for somewhere to park her worries. On an intake interview for a nursing home, she described herself as aggressive - one of the many reasons why her stay there was short.
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