That's the address of a clip at YouTube called "David Rosenhan: Being Sane In Insane Places."
When you get out, it's no less painful than when you're there. You aren't alive anymore; you have the name and body and home and relatives and friends of someone who has died to the world. You don't even feel like you have the right to the things that you read and wore and wrote when you were that other person.
No matter how many people you leave or know, you spend the rest of your life worse than alone. There's no stigma about a human being that doesn't get cast on a mental patient, or a former mental patient. There is nothing that people do to you that they won't use your "instability" to excuse. The abuse is what makes people crazy; the years of living in a world that wishes you were dead.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, December 19, 2016 @ 10:35 p.m.
