I agree with all of you other posters about Hodgman. He is crazy and misguided. Those scenes are terrifying, about as terrifying as anything I have seen on television. They did such a bad job with mental illness in years past. Poor Eleanor. I hope her husband, Dr. Everett Gallinger, somehow is struck with the good…

As soon as the attending doctor talked about a new miracle drug that made it possible to recover from cocaine withdrawal without pain, the thought of heroin popped into my mind. I didn't have any advanced knowledge of this. It's just that after seeing all the crazy things they were doing with mental health, it seemed…

That's a good thought and a somewhat reassuring thought. The idea of Cornelia going to San Francisco and being raped by the pig of a father-in-law is sickening.
The idea of her keeping her baby and going to Europe to raise the child with Algernon Edwards sounded extreme, and she rejected that idea. Then in this…

Mad man is right. It seems that in those days, the people treating mental illness were as mentally deranged as the patients, or possibly more so. What a horror that was. There are things about today's society that I don't like, but the advances in treating mental illness are a definite improvement in today's…