When mental illness and civil rights collide - LA Times

Ten years ago, I slipped into a world of delusion. I'd had a psychotic break in March 1997, and now, like the aftershock to an earthquake, I was having a relapse. I had stopped taking my medications -- Zoloft and perphenazine -- not out of rebelliousness but because I was losing my bearings and had become absent-minded.

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