If you knew the number of totally whacked out kids who are sent away to college you would be shocked.
Parents of really crazy kids get very tired of caring for them. Sending them away allows the parents to pretend to themselves that their kids are better and it's usually cheaper than putting them into an institution. Of course once the kid gets to college he gets into alcohol and other drugs that do not mix well with the prescription meds he is on and he's back in the mental hospital again. Sometimes the parents don't even come to the hospital, they want to distance themselves so much.
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