| San Francisco. Anna moved to San Francisco immediately after leaving the Deaconess hospital, in December, 1978. She was eighteen years old. Her aunt Alice provided her a room in the home she shared communally with her small son, his father, and various friends. Initially, Anna took part in a local school's art classes and participated in running marathons. After several months however, she was expelled from the house for acting out in ways perceived dangerous to her young nephew. For nearly two years, supported in part by Social Security Income, she lived intermittently in bed and board homes, hotels, shelters, with friends and sometimes on the streets. During this period she was raped and occasionally forced to exchange sex for shelter. Friends verify her exposure to a local rock musician, his band and a group of people related to him, who she claimed had tortured her in a sexual manner. For the next thirteen years, she expressed fragmented but consistent memories of this incident(s), verbally and in her writings and artwork. In San Francisco, she was involuntarily committed to psychiatric emergency care and acute hospitalization* a total of six times, once directly following the rape. Her account of the rape is not recorded in her records. Anna said that she first began to experience hearing voices following these incidents. This was also when she made her first attempt at suicide by swimming out in the ocean too far she thought, to come back to shore. Contact with her family during this period was sparse, with the exception of her older brother John who lived for several months in San Francisco and with whom she frequently spent time. *Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute (4 times), Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco General Hospital |
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