◼ My mother was in and out of mental hospitals. She had her first nervous breakdown when I was 6. I spent an entire year in a Catholic orphanage. I had an ulcer at age 14 and a half. It was thought then that ulcers are caused by stress. Not at all. They’re exacerbated by stress. I found out years later that. It’s a corkscrew-shaped bacteria from bad sanitation. We didn’t have a flush toilet until I was 14. We were in government housing with two 40-gallon dunny cans.
