“I’ve lived here since the early seventies, the whole time out here in the Sunset. I’m retired now but most of my time was as a psychiatrist. I saw the AIDS epidemic in the 80’s and this was before they had the cocktail so all you could do to help people was just to listen to them.”
“In your work, what’s one of the most common conditions you saw people dealing with?”
“PTSD. A lot of times in kids whose parents were drug addicts. The parents would prostitute themselves for drugs, or prostitute the kids so they could get money for drugs. I know the appropriate treatment may be medication, but it’s mostly talk. So that’s what we were doing, mostly talk.”