Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

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by Susan Sheehan

"Sylvia Frumkin," a highly intelligent young girl, became a schizophrenic in her late teens and spent most of the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. Susan Sheehan, a talented reporter, followed "Sylvia" for almost a year talking with and observing her, listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with doctors - even for a period sleeping in the bed next to her in a psychiatric hospital.

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When you know all of those things exist for other people but not for you, sometimes it’s very hard to endure the not having.

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When you know all of those things exist for other people but not for you, sometimes it’s very hard to endure the not having.

— Susan Sheehan, Is There No Place on Earth for Me?