Fuller, who now works as a practicing psychiatrist, is a living example of the message he preaches: Many can recover.
Suffering from bipolar depression, Michael Fuller spent most of his high school years in an old-fashioned mental hospital.
He’d undergone shock therapy dozens of times, to little avail. He was just shy of his 18th birthday in 1972 when a doctor told his mother he would spend much of his life in psychiatric hospitals.