Ted went on to become an attorney, and is on the board of Support Coalition International, a non-profit alliance of 50 grassroots groups. A few months ago Ted helped shut down the notorious East Bay psychiatric hospital. Ted recently investigated Metropolitan State Hospital as an advocate and was horrified. He's quit his job to shut Met State down. Help create real alternatives to this nightmare.
Power concedes nothing without a struggle.
It never has and it never will. This is a very personal account, because I myself spent most of my childhood in a state hospital in New York. Forty-three years ago, I was released from Rockland State Hospital at the age of seventeen. I had spent ten years there. I went on with my life, struggling with the effects of what had been done to me.