State Hospital Memories: More of My Story
' For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter…' —Deuteronomy ...
' For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter…' —Deuteronomy 32:32 A t the age of sixteen I was committed to the Pontiac State Hospital in Pontiac, Michigan. It was the most traumatic experience of my life. I experienced horrific forced shock treatments in a freezing cold, ancient building that was falling apart around me. It's no wonder the hospital eventually lost accreditation and had to close—of course, that was decades after what they did to me there.