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Full Description
The patient is an ascetically pretty 15½-year-old white female. She is intelligent, fearful, extremely anxious, and depressed. Her rage is poorly controlled and inappropriately expressed.
Diagnostic Impression: Program for social recovery in a supportive and structured environment appears favorable.
Life Inside
In 1967, three months before her sixteenth birthday, Mindy Lewis was sent to a state psychiatric hospital by court order. She had been skipping school, smoking pot, and listening to too much Dylan. Her mother, at a loss for what else to do, decided that Mindy remain in state custody until she turned eighteen and became a legal, law-abiding, "healthy" adult.
Life Inside is Mindy's story about her coming-of-age during those tumultuous years. In honest, unflinching prose, she paints a richly textured portrait of her stay on a psychiatric ward -- the close bonds and rivalries among adolescent patients, the politics and routines of institutional life, the extensive use of medication, and the prevalence of life-altering misdiagnoses. But this memoir also takes readers on a journey of recovery as Lewis describes her emergence into adulthood and her struggle to transcend the stigma of institutionalization. Bracingly told, and often terrifying in its truths, Life Inside is a life-affirming memoir that informs as it inspires.
Contents
Contents
I. Life Inside
Intake
Testing
Days Like Any Other
Life Before
Adolescents
Inappropriate Behavior
Outside Communication
Inside Out
Deep Dirt
Desperate Measures
Backlash
Celebritites
Procrustes in Coconut Grove/The Buddha/Hic Phat!
Progress
Parting Shots
II. Life After
Released
Roots
Crazy
A Member of My Tribe
The Clitoris of the Heart
Work
The Train to Bellevue
Personal Mythology
Follow-up
Reunion
Forgiveness
My Father's Keeper
Floating
Toward or Away
Rockland Revisited
Old Friends
Seduction
For the Records
Facing the Enemy
Appointment with the Past
A Note to the Reader
Acknowledgments
Selected biblography
