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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

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Schizophrenia? Many were here with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, so common following participation in armed conflict and in some cases, the result of physical or sexual abuse. I told him that unemployment payments felt like going on “welfare,” something I had been brought up to avoid at all costs. I wondered.