Alas, probably fictional more than factual. I think they'd
   probably just do a couple of cheap electroshocks if meds
   wouldn't work (they still do them if they must - they just don't
   advertise it 'cause of bad reputation.. and they're simpler now)
   - but I think the mental homes in the USA are of an age-gone by.
   Went the way of orphanages. == I think the choices now are: Drug
   rehab ('cause good candidates for that kind of mental home in
   the past likely ALREADY discovered opiates on their own),
   half-way houses and the top floor of hospitals... which is where
   the detox spots are. Oh and monthly trips to social services.
   Yeah - our socialized medicine has gone ahead in some ways, but
   backwards in others I think. = I'd be fuller of life. I'm
   definitely on the manic side of the manic-depressive axis, not
   that I don't have an underlying river of melancholy running
   under the river of "what's my next project? Ok - I'm ready!"
   'cause I do - which probably forms the treadmill I run on smile
   emoticon manic on a treadmill of melancholy smile emoticon ==
   irl I stay quiet except to a couple of select ppl. Online, well,
   you can see. The squeezing of life and the words shoot out like
   toothpaste out of a pinhole on the side of the tube, and I'm the
   tube. tongue emoticon ==