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My Story (I’m Still Standing)   By Trish Guterez          In 1973, I left U.C.S.B. as a young art student to battle schizophrenia in over eleven mental hospitals.  I was so disabled that I didn’t understand the confusion and complexity of my illness.  I heard voices, hallucinated, and received every medication possible to help lessen the symptoms.  I remember entering the psych ward of Glendale Adventist Hospital at age 21 in Glendale, CA and receiving a shot of Thorazine, which was a drug that made my hallucinations worse and numbed me to any stimulus surrounding my spirit.  The nurse, Susan, said to me as she drew up the shot, “Confused?” “Help me God,” is all I could say.  I was more than confused.  I was in hell.   I drooled, shuffled down the corridors of the hospital, and wondered what a hell it was to battle mental illness.  I was too sick to even...
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