Crazy people. The wrong side of life with a mental illness. Starenkova E.S.

5.6 million people - just so many patients with mental disorders are registered in Russia in 2021. And every year there are more and more of them.

In this book, psychiatrist Elena Starenkova openly talks about severe mental disorders, broken fate and important social problems, carefully hidden from all of us.

The author tells stories about mentally ill patients and the difficulties that they are forced to cope with: universal indifference and rejection by society, inept and even harmful assistance to loved ones, the imperfection of the healthcare system and the legal sphere, absolute helplessness in our usual life.