Lucy Winer checked into Kings Park psychiatric hospital on Long Island, New York, after overdosing on sleeping pills and slitting her wrists. It was 1967; she was 17. Stern nurses dressed her in a hospital gown and escorted her into a room where identically dressed women slept on the floor or leaned lifelessly against walls. The women were literally floored by antipsychotic medications that, as Winer was to find in her six months in the hospital, felt like an iron suit.
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