The expression, “I had a bad childhood,” has never seemed sufficient for describing the horrors visited upon many youth. The expression’s inadequacy becomes apparent when one hears the story of Jani Schofield, a seven-year-old, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and has already been hospitalized seven or eight times in psychiatric wards. Typically, psychotic disorders afflict people no earlier than their late teens.

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