I saw some of the situations in the movie in my experience as a teenager in institutions, but it wasn't dramatized like in was in the movie. I have some rather fond memories of the mentally ill people that were in my unit. Mr. Patey thought all our cigarettes were actually pot. He had been institutionalized for about 15 years in New York. When his daughter moved to Atlanta, she moved him too. She was a good daughter. There was the iron woman that would lay on the floor with a metal chair and suck on the metal. Then there was the guy that thought the mafia was looking for him to kill him. I was told he got out & was found shot in the head in an alley in Alabama somewhere.  There was the sweet lady & her husband.  She came in because she thought she was God's wife & a very special person.  She got back on medication & was okay & left the hospital.  I really liked her & her husband. Terry went home on weekend pass & shot herself in the head. Not funny at all.  I have more stories.