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Darby Penney
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The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
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2008
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9 editions
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(The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic) [By: Penney, Darby] [Jan, 2009]
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“When you identify hearing voices with illness and try to kill the voices with neuroleptic medication, you just miss the personal problems that lay at the roots of hearing voices—and you will not help the person solving those problems. You just make a chronic patient.”
― The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
― The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
“If people treat a cemetery like trash, it’s a good indication of how they feel about the people buried there and those who are still receiving services,” she said.”
― The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
― The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
“The World Health Organization has twice found that schizophrenia outcomes are much, much better in poor countries like India, Nigeria, and Colombia than in the United States and other rich countries. Moreover, the number of psychiatrically disabled people in the United States has increased from 600,000 in 1955 to nearly six million today, a statistic that shows we still do not have a form of care that truly helps people recover, and even suggests that we are doing something today that may actively prevent recovery.”
― The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
― The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
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