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Frances Farmer...In the thirties and early forties, she was a great actress...Then she started taking drugs and drinking and her mother put her in a state hospital in Washington state in 1943...She would run away and then her mother would have her sent back...The conditions inside the mental hospital were barbaric..There was no rehabilitation, what-so-ever, only human warehousing...And extreme cruelty...Frances was subjected to insulin shock, ice baths, forced drugging with tranquilizers. shock treatments and finally a lobotomy..The food was thrown onto the floor for everyone to fight over...She was raped by servicemen who were brought to the hospital and by the guards....Frances was finally released in 1950, but she was never the same again... a completely broken person...So who was responsible and should be held responsible...surely not Frances...She was the victim of all of this...I say it should have been her mother who should have been put into the asylum, not Frances and let her mother get a taste ofhow the other half lives and experience the same amount of torture and misery that they had to endure...No doubt her mother had no compassion for Frances, what-so-ever, but only contempt for her daughter to do something like that to her and ruin her life forever..It was her mother who was to blame and should have been brought to trial for "killing" her daughter!! ..She just signed her over to the state of Washington...all nice and legal!!..So who is going to question the word of a shrink against someone who is diagnosed with being crazy??...You already have the stigma written all over you from the start and no chance in hell of wiping it away!!..That`s what it amounts to once you are diagnosed with mental illness..and this is what happened to Frances Farmer...She died at the age of 57, completey all alone and penniless...no more Hollywood lights and glamour for her..So what ever happened to her mother who was responsible for her tragedy ..that`s what I`d like to know...They made a movie about Frances Farmer in 1982 called simply "Frances" with Jessica Lange....A very depressing movie....But it was a true story...

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