Silvina and Eduardo know too well the difference between "inside" and "outside."
As former inpatients of Argentina's largest psychiatric hospital, they have experienced the stigma attached to those who are confined inside it, and the difficulty of building a new life outside.
But once a week, they go back inside the hospital for a few hours to present a radio show, and the difference becomes blurrier.
Breaking down those categories is one of the aims of Radio La Colifata, the first radio station to broadcast from inside a mental hospital. Set up in 1991, "Loony Radio" goes live from inside Hospital Borda in southern Buenos Aires every Saturday afternoon. (Colifato means anything from mentally unstable to eccentric in the Lunfardo slang spoken in Argentina's capital.)
[For more of this story, written by Irene Caselli, go to http://www.citylab.com/work/20...ental-health/384108/]
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