Frank knew he was very ill. He spent days walking, sometimes as【C1】_____as thirty miles in a day, trying to reason with the pain, and strange thoughts in his mind. Then, one night, he made up his【C2】_____that he would go to the hospital and ask them to admit him. He reported to out-patients and asked to see a psychiatrist.

A junior doctor eventually examined him and【C3】_____to Frank’s confused account of having been in hospital before, of how he thought he ought to【C4】__again because he was so confused and knew something was very wrong with him. The doctor did not admit him. Frank cannot remember【C5】__he was told that the hospital was full or that they simply did not believe him. “I felt I was completely alone. I thought there was【C6】_____there to help.”

So Frank went back on to the streets to find a future of sleeping outside, the occasional【C7】_____in hospitals, and sometimes prison whenever he was picked up for being drunk: drunk because it was the only way he could forget his condition. Frank had sought help and been turned【C8】__. Thousands of others like him can find no help【C9】__. They are the sufferers from long-term【C10】_____illness that confuse the minds of their victims.

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