All three of the people in this sequence are former mental patients. The man is a friend of both women and often steps in to break up arguments. In this scene, the woman in the doorway has had a fight with the woman who is crying. She is comforted…
Estelle is 80. She lived in a fairly nice apartment house on Capitol Hill, but her schizophrenia convinced her mind she had paid her rent, when in fact, she hadn't. It convinced her a band of drug smugglers wanted to get into her room and use her…
Boarding homes are not peopled solely by the elderly. They are the home for a widely diverse age group, from young schizophrenics, just beginning their downslide, to the hopelessly chronic old timers. For the most part they spend their days…
They are called personal care boarding homes. Once they housed pretty young girls who had come to Denver to attend business school or college. Now they are the exclusive home for the thousands of mental patients discharged by the Colorado State…
His name is John. When he was 23, something happened in his mind. He began speaking to voices only he could hear. A doctor told his family John was a hopeless schizophrenic. He spent 24 years in a state hospital. Now he lives in a dilapidated…
Ralph 'Treehouse' Brown doesn't think much of the Army Corps of Engineers and planned to sue them for $250,000. The reason? If the Corps had constructed the planned Meramac River Dam, his quarter-mile stretch of shoreline along the Huzzah Creek…