I started a PhD project a while ago. It began as an
investigation into the therapeutic impact of nursing care on individual
patients; but it is quickly progressing into a study of a Nation descending into hell; how nurses
contain their own anxieties and unload their stress onto others in order to
defend their embattled egos and professional registrations; working to create
and defend silos of practice that re-story the responsibilities and
accountabilities of the professional nurse as a turgid submission to the abusive relationships
of oligarchical parents and acerbic siblings; barely concealed trauma
histories triggered by the nightmares of insomniacs and the fantasies of psychopaths;
pulling the alarm chord on the underground – triggering an emergency response; the
organisational politics of the alpha male and female; creating a space for the
acceleration of wilful neglect, violence and hostility, towards colleagues and
patients; making mental illness and personality disorder a contagious disease; safeguarding
becomes a public health issue; using anger to legitimise the oppression and control,
if not persecution and annihilation, of the broken; mental health nursing as the
purgatory above a hell on earth; prostitution, drug-dealing, rape and violent crime, theft, burglary, alcoholism, and homelessness, the complete and total deconstruction of the human; angels internalising the exploitative
structural relations of capitalism to create their own vengeful and corrupt vendettas;
maintaining the inequalities that enslave people rather than delivering empowerment
to the vulnerable. Such is the culture of health and social care in 2019; heaving under the strain of economic castration. Such is the
Greater London metropolitan area; such is health and posterity plundered by right-wing politicians; such is Brexit, Austerity and the postcode Lottery of knife crime; bestowing molten lead on the working
class and incapacitated underclasses; revolving door prisoners of the rich, who will never be free.
