Banning Lyon was an average 15-year-old. But in January 1987 his life quickly changed after a school guidance counsellor falsely believed he was suicidal. Days later he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, and what he was told would be a two-week stay turned into 353 days that would change his life forever. Banning takes readers through his fraught relationship with his family, the mistreatment he suffered at the hospital, the lawsuit against the owners of the facility, and his desire to make sense of what happened to him.
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