Personal Stories

People with “lived experience” tell of their interactions with psychiatry and how it impacted their lives, and of their own paths to recovery.

A Psychiatrist Remembers His Recovery from Schizophrenia

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A psychiatrist since 1949, I was psychiatrically hospitalized on December 21, 1963 at New York City's Mt. Sinai Hospital.   I stayed for three months,...

From the Loony Bin To Stand-Up Comedy

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I was sixteen and going on seventeen and I had never gone crazy before.  I think the most startling aspect of it is how...