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Archive Home > 2008 > March > 02 > ‘Please help me’

‘Please help me’

Cindy Powell had struggled with mental illness since she was 14. On Monday, she jumped to her death from a hospital balcony as she was being taken to a locked treatment facility. Here is her story.

By Cindy Powers and Erin Golden / The Bulletin
March 2, 2008

Three days before jumping to her death from a balcony in St. Charles Bend’s main lobby, Cindy Powell drove to the hospital’s emergency room with multiple cuts on her arms from a kitchen knife.

She was stitched up and sent home with ibuprofen, printed information about....

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