Making small talk with a jolly mortician. Tending to patients who self-mutilate for fun, or relying on an escort moonlighting as a drug dealer. For me, "normal" doesn't exist in a typical work day. But why would it for a mental health professional? Listen to me rant while spiraling into madness, telling stories to cry and laugh at. Let me explain what it's like to fight off an onslaught of night terrors, hallucinations, manic dreams, and the scariest fact of all—you can’t hide from yourself.
My name is Dominic Crow, and I'm a psychiatric nurse losing his mind and dying to know why.