“Well, I thought I, they had given me some medicine, and I lay down for a nap, and I was kind of in between staying asleep and awake, and I thought I heard some voices come from the wall, and uh, I thought the voices said in a growl, in a gravelly voice, I thought he said, ‘Andrea, come here,’ and I got up out of bed, and I turned to the wall, and I said, ‘What do you want?’ and that’s all of that exchange. The voice went away. And I believe it was Satan calling me.”
About This Quote
Yates experiences her hallucinations of Satan during her second psychiatric hospitalization. INTERVIEW OF ANDREA YATES (AY) BY PARK DIETZ, M.D., M.P.H., PH.D. (PD) NOVEMBER 6-7, 2001
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