The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity by Mark Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's son left the east coast to drive out to British Columbia. There he joined a few other Swarthmore graduates in a small scale hippie commune. Then he went crazy. His friends tried to help him help himself. He stopped eating, contemplated suicide and had all sorts of other things happen. Much of the central part of the book is told from his first person view at the time. Eventually his friends involuntarily intern him in a treatment facility. He recovers. He has since gone on to be a doctor. He kept the original text, but added additional text related to his modern understanding of mental illness.
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