Horror in the mental institutions is based on a true story. It's looking into the life of the author who is a schizoaffective person with a mental illness and a substances abuse disorder. She wanted to escape from the voices in her head to a sane lifestyle. While being incompetent she gets in trouble with the law. When she couldn't grasp life for what it was she became displaced from everything around her, including her family and friends. You would have to have been there to visualize and to go inside the mind to the things that happen in her state of mind. You would have to be in the institutions to know the type of treatment that took place while her stay there. Horror in the mental institutions is a book like no other. When I look at horror I look at fear. I look at the purpose which god has lead me to and for what reason? I look at going into the mind of another and trying to figure out what happen, why, and what went wrong.from the prison within the walls of the prison that caused me to loose my sanity and to live alone in my mind with the dead that lived underneath the grounds