I had horrible nightmares last night. I dreamed that, because I had once been on psychological medication, I had lost my rights in the eyes of the law, and could be institutionalized against my will for very slight infractions. During my time there they gave me electro-shock therapy, attatching thin wires to my wrists and my third eye (the point in between my eyes in the middle of my forehead). Due to the shocks, my mental illness got much worse. I remembered, both in the dream and in reality shortly after I woke up, sweating in fear, that my Dad had been institutionalized when he was a teenager, and had gone through the same treatment.

This is, in fact, true. He was institutionalized, and he was given electro-shock therapy (in an entirely inappropriate manner). I don't doubt that my Dad was sort of crazy when he was a kid, but I wouldn't be surprised if any feelings of paranoia and of being persecuted weren't given strong reinforcement from the horrible and malicious treatment he got from the different psychiatrists and psychologists.