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seamusTX wrote: My grandfather had been mentally ill and an alcoholic for most of his adult life, but he had kept it together until that point. He was committed to a state mental hospital, which was the usual thing at that time (1960).

My parents told me that he had a sickness that made him act that way and he wasn't a bad person. They answered whatever questions I had (I don't remember what they were). I accepted it. It wasn't a major trauma.
- Jim

I knew my grandmother was in a hospital, I just didn't know what kind. In the 1960's she was put through some treatment that jacked her up pretty bad. So a few decades later she was in her mid 70's working a night job on a bad part of town. A thief tried to stag her purse, she locked arms with him. Then she stabbed him to death with a nail file. A few years later she was watching me while my dad was at work, my grandfather was stuck in a chair pretty much all day with enphezima. While I was in the other room sleeping she murdered my grandfather. I didn't know anything about this until over a decade later. I think I'm glad I didn't know until later.