hmm... when I was in the nuthouse, I threw myself down the stairs they had in the ward they had initially put me in- needless to say I got put in the secure ward. Wah! In the secure ward, there was a black market in shards of glass... this shot just brought up memories : )

"Faces in the Water" by Janet Frame. Author was locked up for 7 years in the mid 40s- mid 50s. Lets ya really know what these places were like : ). I'm assuming, from the look of things, mental hospitals in New Zealand are pretty much the same as in the States...