Their Kids Died on the Psych Ward. They Were Far From Alone, a Times Investigation Found [latimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 12/6/192:46 PM

By Soumya Karlamangla, Los Angeles Times, December 1, 2019

Mia St. John’s cellphone lit up with a message from the psychiatrist treating her son. The voicemail shimmered with hope, the first she had felt in months.

The doctor said Julian, admitted to a psychiatric facility with schizophrenia, seemed more cheerful, was talking more with other patients and would soon begin a new art project.

“Very happy to see he’s coming around a bit,” the doctor said.

It was November 2014, and Julian, 24, had been living at La Casa Mental Health Rehabilitation Center in Long Beach for two months. Mia and her ex-husband, Kristoff St. John, had resorted to involuntarily committing their son after he threatened to kill himself in September.

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