ABSTRACT
Gary goes across to the Mental Health Unit to fetch the songbooks from the music therapy room and as he comes out he meets one of the patients, a middleaged woman. She is slowly shuffling along the corridor towards the doors, which are secured. It's not someone he knows so he keeps a respectful distance, but the two of them converge at the door. The patient looks tense and anxious, and her body mirrors this state, her shoulders hunched, her movements inhibited and controlled. She pushes a buzzer, talks to the security guard and the door is released. Gary signs out of the building and the security man at the front desk says to this woman ‘You've got two hours leave now, but don't go too far, and make sure you're back at four!’
