Lincoln Mental Care Center

By Bruce Al Smith

This book is based on a true story on a mental health situation in this short story you will find action, comedy religion love story a book all can enjoy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477109984

Bruce Al Smith

Bruce Al Smith has been a mental patient in Ohio for 31 years he decided to write a book on one of his many experiences.

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Copyright © 2012 by Bruce Al Smith.

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Contents

Introduction

Lincoln Mental Care Center

Introduction

I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, a mental illness, at the age of twenty-one. I didn’t accept the fact that I had a mental illness. I kept on drinking, chasing women, and doing some drugs. But I would end up in the hospital every six months, so I decided to sign myself up in the hospital for alcohol abuse. I stayed in the hospital for three months and got cleaned up at the age of twenty-four and stayed sober for six months. I still wound up in the hospital. After those six months were up, I decided, because of associates, that I would just drink beer.

By the time I was twenty-eight, I accepted my mental illness and decided to take my medicine orally as required. However, I would either forget to take it, or I would run out of my medication. My trips to the hospital decreased to about once a year. At the age of twenty-nine, I moved in with a nice girl that I had known for three years. She was my inspiration to stay out of the hospital. I was working as an executive setup man for a major company setting up meeting rooms instead of collecting disability because disability was not enough money for my lifestyle. There were a lot of nice-looking women working there. The fellas that I worked with tried to encourage me to talk to them, but I had been around the block and I liked the girl I was with, so I managed to dodge that bullet. I lost the job after a year and half