My Time In Bursledon Hospital

A Memory of Bursledon.

I was in this hospital as a patient at 10 years old - I dont know why. I went to school there with numerous amounts of children. I remember my bedroom was on the ground floor, just as you walk in the front door on your right, about 10 of us shared this room. I recall another ward at the back of the house with twins in a big cot that we used to take out for a walk. I remember a big train in the front garden and a big park round the back. I remember a nurse checking me everyday but I don't know why. This time in Bursledon was a mystery to me and I still dont know to this day why I was there.


Added 29 July 2012

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I was here in 1974 I was 10 I loved the train I played on it every day I was here for 3 months in the summer and love sneaking out to the fields to play im going to go back there one day to have a look around and take pics I have a old pic of me on the roundabout I lived in northam in Southampton when I was here and loved my stay here
HI - I was also sent there at 13, after horrendous bullying at school and undiagnosed ADHD until I was 48, 4 years ago. I am writing a book and believe so many of us were there for emotional burnout and of course at that time none even knew about ADHD, OCD, Autism etc until after 2000 and would be keen to know if you realised you were neurodivergent?

Thanks
Mel
@theadhdhumingbird
mel@melsimslifecoach.co.uk

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