R. I. M a mental patient at Saint Elizabeths hospital in washington, d. C. For ages, People Like Us have been hidden in darkness. Families dont like to talk about their members in a Mental Hospital. People think there is something worse about being mentally hospital them mentally ill than being sick with pneumonia. It is not true. And tonight, mental patients from around the country are gathered together to strip away that dark this. And in a moment you will see others like me. You will learn from us how mental patients used to be treated. The conditions of our hospitals today and the new hope that we have now to get well again. Lets take the first part. How we used to be treated. I am standing on a stage. Behind me, my fellow patients at Saint Elizabeths are celebrating our centennial. They are performing a play written by ourselves. It is about our founder, dorothy lynn dix who lived back when lincoln did and fought for better treatment for People Like Us. Each person in the play is