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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

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My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression. Like Thompson, they filled the day with activities that provided structure and predictability, the two things I needed as much as medication and psychotherapy. Schizophrenia? Apparently, the staff—or her therapist—had given her a job to do.