Content warning: This story includes descriptions of suicidal thoughts and behavior.
Adam H. said he had “all the clinical help in the world” when he was sleeping in a hallway in his family home, surrounded by trash bags full of his belongings. He’d been living this way for months after he was released last year from a state-run psychiatric hospital on Long Island, New York.
Adam’s family members had taken over his room while he spent the summer at the facility. They tossed his mattress and things into that hallway, where he stayed because he was too depressed to figure out a solution…