That is simply not true. She was committed to facilities multiple times in multiple places. Read below excerpts from her book titled: The Loony-Bin Trip (1990).
The book dealt with a painful period when she was hospitalized by her family after being diagnosed with manic depression.
Millett said that mental illness is a myth. Many healthy people, she said, are “driven to mental illness” by society’s disapproval and by the “authoritarian institution of psychiatry.”
Much of Millett’s book covers what she describes as nightmarish experiences in mental wards in Minnesota, the Bay Area and Ireland.
Psychiatry is portrayed as “a terrifying form of social control,” and Millett describes her loved ones--who twice put her in a mental hospital--as having little concern for her health.
“My God, they are going to turn me in. . . .” Millett wrote. “This is the labyrinth I am entering. For the rest of my life, I will wear this mark on my forehead.”
Millett denies that she had a mental problem. Family members say Millett lost touch with reality. They say she talked to radios and babbled for hours. She went four or five nights straight without sleep. They say she often couldn’t recognize her sisters and friends.
During a speech that year after a screening at UC Berkeley of a film she had made, Millett appeared to fall apart on stage before an auditorium crowded with admirers. She began talking incoherently, according to her sister, Mallory Millett Danaher, who was standing with Millett at the lectern.
Her Mental illness stay had to do with an LSD overdose.
That is simply not true. She was committed to facilities multiple times in multiple places. Read below excerpts from her book titled: The Loony-Bin Trip (1990).
The book dealt with a painful period when she was hospitalized by her family after being diagnosed with manic depression.
Millett said that mental illness is a myth. Many healthy people, she said, are “driven to mental illness” by society’s disapproval and by the “authoritarian institution of psychiatry.”
Much of Millett’s book covers what she describes as nightmarish experiences in mental wards in Minnesota, the Bay Area and Ireland.
Psychiatry is portrayed as “a terrifying form of social control,” and Millett describes her loved ones--who twice put her in a mental hospital--as having little concern for her health.
“My God, they are going to turn me in. . . .” Millett wrote. “This is the labyrinth I am entering. For the rest of my life, I will wear this mark on my forehead.”
Millett denies that she had a mental problem. Family members say Millett lost touch with reality. They say she talked to radios and babbled for hours. She went four or five nights straight without sleep. They say she often couldn’t recognize her sisters and friends.
During a speech that year after a screening at UC Berkeley of a film she had made, Millett appeared to fall apart on stage before an auditorium crowded with admirers. She began talking incoherently, according to her sister, Mallory Millett Danaher, who was standing with Millett at the lectern.
Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-13-vw-175-story.html