Many decades ago, my mother's friend had a severely incapacitated adult child in a mental home. He always complained that the orderlies were out to get him, but his parents dismissed his complaints because, well, he was crazy. Turns out the son died and the autopsy found dirt in his lungs. An investigation followed, and he was killed when an orderly "restrained" him by pushing his face into a potted plant, and he sucked dirt into his lungs as he was suffocating.His father wrote a letter to a local paper in which he libeled the shit out of the mental home. They sued him, he lost everything, and he committed suicide within days of the verdict. His wife died years later alone.
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Mental
Non-FictionWarning this story is based on true stories. Every person that the main character encounters has their own story based on true stories submitted to me anonymously by people who work in the psych field or who have been in a psych ward themselves. The...
