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"To eliminate the need for asylum care would be to eliminate the asylum itself, dousing the first flickers of illness long before its flames could blaze through a life."

To her, it would always start with a knock.

"Here she stops again and sighs.
I feel hope. A first glimpse:
she sees an end in sight.
If she can reach that ending,
she will free herself, and
let the voices rest. But to do so
risks deepening the very delusion
she plots to escape.
So much hinges on which life
she finds herself drawn to next,
and her own response to it -
will she be pushed onwards
or drawn backwards?"