title: My life on the street.
abstract: In this first-person account, the author chronicles her experience of being mentally ill and homeless in New York and New Jersey in the early 1980s. She describes surviving numerous traumatic events until she eventually realized her need for treatment and admitted herself to a mental institution.
authors.affiliation: Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS 66601-0829, USA.
authors.lastname: Rose
mesh_terms: D001325:Autobiographies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011203:Poverty / Q000523:psychology; D012803:Sick Role; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology