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Letter of Complaint About Treatment In Psychiatric Unit

I wrote this letter a couple of months after my husband took me to the emergency room and I was diagnosed as having a manic episode and admitted. It was my first experience with mania and I didn’t have a psychiatrist; I did not know the doctors who treated me. Although my stay was only […]

Jul 15 1996

The Reason For The Hope I Have: My Experience With Mental Illness

Mental Health, Poems, Writing before 2004 / By Helen / July 15, 1996

Note added 12/10/06: this poem depicts my experience when I got mentally ill in 1996. It begins with my progression from ‘normal’ Christian thinking into the distorted way a manic person thinks. I’ve also written about that day here. Jesus is my Lord and Savior He died for my sins He loves me The Bible

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