Fri.Oct 18, 2024

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Medical Health Treatment vs. Mental Health Treatment

Mad in America

I n 1986 I had my first experience spending time in a hospital. While riding a bicycle to a friend’s house my front tire hit a stone in the road and I went down. My next memory was waking up in the hospital and being told to try and remain still under the X-ray machine. No matter how hard I tried not to move I could not stop shaking. I remember people being around me, telling me that everything was going to be alright, one person even held my hand trying to comfort me through what was happ