Tag: harms of hospitalization

Starting out with what were called “nervous breakdowns,” my father was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and incarcerated in the state mental hospital for the last twenty years of his life.

I can never visit a zoo again after my experience in the acute ward. I could never watch an animal pace back and forth.

Our guest today is Banning Lyon, author of The Chair and The Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and The Outdoors. An account of...