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A woman in her late 30s woke up inside of a dark room and immediately began thrashing wildly.

Her wrists were bound to the metal rails on either side of her bed,

keeping her pinned down and unable to use her hands.

Her head hurt from the gauze bandages that were wrapped tightly around her skull

and held in place by a foam helmet that she was forced to wear to sleep each night.

But as uncomfortable as that foam helmet was,

the compression was the only thing keeping her endless torment at bay. The woman had been in the

psychiatric hospital for weeks. As far as she could tell, this was her future, gritting her teeth

through the constant agony in her head as she lay helpless and strapped to a hospital bed.

She could feel her sanity slipping away.

But when her misery became almost unbearable, she reminded herself that she had chosen

this.

She had entered this hospital of her own free will, because no matter how brutal these

nights and restraints might seem, it was the only way she could survive.

From Wondery, I'm Matt Ford.

And I'm Alice Levine.

And we're the host of British Scandal.

And for our next series, we're taking you back to the 80s.

This is Thatcher's Britain.

These are the boom years.

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