You think it would be awful to be in a locked ward, but it constituted no problem. The door kept out the world. I stayed there three months. My defenses were totally wrecked, I was physically sick, emotionally disintegrating. My shrink suggested AA. I thought, "My God, even he's given up on me." So, with a nurse's aide, I went to the hospital lobby and called AA.

People (5 September 1977)