Hello his name is Frank T. Blankenship and he hails from Charlottesville,Virginia.The author of this website is a survivor of numerous hospitalizations in five states. He has been called many names by the psychiatrists in the institutions in which he has been incarcerated such as depressed, border line personality type, schizo-affective disorder sufferer, paranoid schizophrenic, and chronic undifferentiated schizophrenic. He has also been forced on more than one occasion to take such harmful neuroleptic drugs as thorazine, stelazine, navane, haldol, and mellaril among others. He therefore has seen, and has first hand knowledge of, the damage done to people by psychiatry and the institutions it runs.

Update: 5/22/06. On this date he had the opportunity to look over the files on his case at the area Community Services Board building. The files he saw dealt with 3 stays at the state hospital, 2 stays on a university hospital ward, and 1 stay at a medical center in another state. Among the insults he found listed in those files were Chronic Episodic Psychotic Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder or Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Schizophrenic Paranoid Type, Schizophrenic Chronic Undifferentiated Type, Schizotypal Disorder With Major Depressive Features, and Chronic Schizophrenia Possibly Paranoid and Sleep Deprivation. On more than one occasion he was forced to take Lithium. Other neuroleptics, not mentioned above but found in these files, include Molindone (Moban), Olanzapine (Zyprexa), and Loxitane. He was given Cogentin, Artane, and Propranolol to counter the side effects of these neuroleptic drugs. He had received the anti-depressant Tofranil at an earlier date. Durring his last stay, shortly before discharge, he was prescribed Synthroid for hypothyroidism possibly brought on by one of the other drugs he was forced to take. 2 Temporary Detention Orders were mentioned in these files, together with 1 Involuntarily Certified for treatment. (There have been others.) At least 2 other hospital stays are obliquely referred to in these records. 1 of the university hospital stays mentioned above may have lead into a state hospital stay not dealt with in the files.He knows of a few other hospital stays in other states not mentioned in these files at all.