My Grandmother was a patient at Manteno State Hospital for over 40 yrs of her life. She went in at the age of 24 and died there. I was a child and didn't understand why she was even there. There were alot of family secrets and my mother was told that her mom had a "Nervous Breakdown" after the death of her mother. I don't know why her father and other family memeber left her in there. My mother took us to see her one day when I was 12yrs old and I think that was my mother's first time of seeing her to. My mother's family had told my mother that her mother died when she was young. It saddens me that they did such Cruel things to people in there. Nobody ever knows where their life is going to end of at and I don't think it's funny to Laugh at People who have a Mental disorder...I know my mother said that my grandmother got beat up by other patients. When I did see my Grandmother(Doris) she was quiet and didn't talk...she did smile at us...I think she was probably drugged up most of the time...but it is sad to know that all she went in for was a Nervous Breakdown...