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It's equally plausible he would've gotten worse without the attention. Suffering in silence doesn't make the suffering easier. Other artists who were institutionalized continued to suffer and make art. If they'd been alone without help, they might've lived shorter lives. Software was clearly Terry's artistic outlet for his pain. I'm glad he got to communicate with other people. It sucks that some of those people were dicks to him. I hope the lesson we take from this is we should help more, not shun and ignore.