Thanks a million for the feedback, Blanche. My inital plan is that HIPPA is respected, except in the rare cases of a few patients whose cases were all up in the news and everyone knows them and their cover was blown long ago by the news. Then everyone else, including a lot of staff, gets a fake name. I will explain this all up front.

A good number of staff people actually knew I was doing this project while I was there and helped me obtain documents and information I never would have had access to otherwise. They all violated their contracts and would be fired, possibly prosecuted in at least one case I cannot go into. Let's just say she saved my ***, big-time. Love that woman. She took a huge, huge risk to protect me.

So, staff get protected.

But I will be totally outted. That does come with some downside, in the social media arena, but I have a strategy to deal with all that. And I am going to tell the publisher up front that there will be no book tour. I'll blame it on my illness--too unstable, blah. Might agree to some very limited number of questions from a couple reporters I do know, like, and trust from old NY days and here. We'll see.

Thank you a thousand times for those links. I have not read all those books, obviously. Of course, since I am in this state, I am well aware of Cuckoo's Nest, which was about and filmed at the actual hosptial I lived at for so long. I'll have to pick a couple of the others and read them.