“I could easily have spent one half of my life in a psychiatric hospital, and the other half in the Priory.”

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Meaning

The speaker is making a blunt joke about his own mental state and saying his life could have been split between psychiatric care and treatment at the Priory. It reads as self-mocking exaggeration rather than a literal claim.

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Originally said in English.

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