Kidnap a passerby? Set off fireworks in your own home? Open up your stomach because “there’s something in the way”? Or maybe just sell your body for a sandwich? You never know what the voices in your head will order next - theirs impossible to control without medication. Just as it is impossible to predict whether you will be able to maintain your sanity for the rest of your life or not? Today, there are more and more patients with mental disorders - as if madness has learned to spread through the air. Depressive conditions, hypochondria, schizotypal disorders, self-identity disorders - all this is much more common, than 30 years ago. And there are no guarantees that this will never affect you. In this book, psychiatrist Elena Starenkova tells how ordinary people go crazy and what happens to them in hospitals. The author debunks popular myths about the mentally ill and explains why our society is to blame in the development of mental illnesses and describes how the healthcare system and imperfect legislation need to be changed in order to save more people. You will learn: - how to understand that there is “something wrong” with your head; - who is doomed to compulsory treatment; - what rights and laws interfere with psychiatrists; - can doctors perform an abortion without your consent if you are mentally ill; - how society “helps” the progress of mental illnesses. Why read this book? If you are afraid of going crazy, the book will tell you how to detect the first ones in time symptoms. After all, lost time has irreversible consequences. If you are already going crazy (or your relative) - the book will tell you what to do and what you should expect. After all, the worst thing is the unknown. If you are neither one nor the other and, in general, you don’t care, just read this book as a collection of tragic short stories and discover another facet of everyday life. After all, this is the only way you will learn to value your own life. The publishing layout has been preserved.