One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Essay title: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
An Evaluation of the Effects of Some Drugs Upon Ones Perspective
Jason Yates
January 17, 2002
“Shes swelling up, swells till her backs splitting out the white uniform and shes let her arms section out long enough to wrap around the three of them five, six times.” A drugged delusion. For the nurse cannot turn into a hideous creature as such he sees. She was probably yelling at them for loathing around while on the job. Though Im guessing it was some of the medication he was on since he hadnt been out of the facility in years, acting as if he was deaf and dumb so he would be mostly left alone.
Not nearly all drugs could cause such delusinations. Though to speak of the most common one, alcohol. Alcohol seems to do this to many, not to such an extreme as to the example above. Yet it is ever famous for the “pink elephant” halucination. It can also make the appearance of walls and floors move, that being a delusion.
“I got away once holding one of those same red capsules under my tongue, played like Id swallowed it, and crushed it open later in the broom closet. For a tick of time, before it all turned into white dust, I saw it was