ABSTRACT
This chapter explores women's first-person experiences with the mental health establishment. A woman as outrageously demanding and consistently suicidal as this one is would add a lot of pressure to anyone's job. Veronica busies herself with the pleats on her skirt. The staff room stays quiet. In addition to the chronic schizophrenics in his residential program. She can't come into our own programs in patient unit because she's neither schizophrenic nor male, the two criteria for admission. Two days later a call comes through to her office. Ms. Linda Cogs well tells one would her out patient therapist. Her heart quickens; a screw tightens in her throat. At the hospital they'll likely set her up with an after care psychologist affiliated with their own institution, and he or she will have to deal with what sounds like her enormous neediness.
