Hillcrest by Christine Hillingdon
Christine Hillingdon has dealt with people who've suffered various degrees of mental illness, ranging from frightening to downright bizarre and hilarious … and then there were her patients!
She kept diaries of her experience as a Psychiatric Enrolled Nurse for twenty-seven years, employed under the South Australian Mental Health system.
Being a part of South Australia’s mental health history, coping with the changes within it, and experiencing its evolution in a steady—but not always comprehensible—way wasn’t easy.
Christine has seamlessly explored the eccentricity of characters that both lived and worked in the psychiatric field of nursing, with guts, honesty, and a unique wit, in this rare and bravely told epistolary account of her life.
Hillcrest by Christine Hillingdon (ePub + PDF)