I have been to mental institutions. Not every crazy is the same.

In September of 2016 I tried to kill myself while completely loaded on a bunch of Ambien (historically my drug of choice). I woke up in the Beth Israel psych ward after the NYPD brought me to the ER. I spent around ten days there before leaving and going on to a month at McLean, Harvard’s famous psychiatric hospital. I tend in my head to compress these …