Chris Johnson, the interim executive director of Communications for Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network, says one of the driving forces behind his work to improve the lives of people with mental health issues is that he’s witnessed firsthand how mental health challenges have been handled in Georgia historically.
Johnson says he grew up visiting Central State Hospital in Milledgeville and the images still haunt him now as an adult.
“Central State Hospital in Milledgeville was the largest asylum in the world,” said Johnson. “It held over 12,000 people at one point and over 25,000 people are buried there.”
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