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Date: 2011-10-30 06:22 pm (UTC)I've had friends who were institutionalized — from brief stays to decades — and it destroys a person as thoroughly as cancer or MRSA or monsters in the attic. The ones who survived institutionalization sometimes made it through with their humanity, autonomy, and self-concept intact. Sometimes. I'm sure you know folks as well.