Ruby Howard takes a while to warm up to describing past episodes of her life.
The 58-year-old Virginia Beach woman traveled a path through emergency rooms, psychiatric units and homeless shelters for a year before coming to an apartment complex where she's now seated with a case manager.
"I could see whole episodes go on that weren't really happening," Howard said. "I could come in here and not see this table. Or I could see something that is there and it ain't there. I was schizophrenic. My
psychiatrist knew, but I didn't know. I didn't know what was wrong with me. I thought I was all right but I was totally messed up."
She paused.
"I don't like to talk about it, because I don't like to think about it."
[For more of this story, written by Elizabeth Simpson, go to http://newamericamedia.org/201...iving-situations.php]
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