To The Bin And Back

This is a true story of one rugby playing boys journey from normal
New Zealand rural life in the 1980s to the depths of the last decayed
and torturous mental intuitions. Take a ring side seat into an explosive
fi ght for freedom and sanity.
When you're a mental patient living inside a loony bin, at fi rst
you think that the precarious thing about saving yourself is trying
to remain sane while living close to the edge. One becomes very
careful not to go native, to get caught up in the liberating eff ects
of no longer having to conform within a conventional society.
One forgets what sane is - one cant help going native. One soon
learns we are all crazy in diff ering degrees and in the subjective
eyes of others. I came to the conclusion that, the real battle is not
to remain sane as a mental patient; your sanity is irrelevant. You
begin to believe life in the bin is not survival of the fi ttest; it's not
real survival at all.