Asked in Libel & Slander for New York

Q: How much compensation will I get for defamation of character ?

5 years back the people living in the apartment complex I lived in connived together and acted out a plan to make me look like a schizophrenic. Even now everyone believes I have schizophrenia and I have been admitted in a mental hospital twice. If I can get to prove in court I don't have any mental problem and I was a victim of the malicious plot by my neighbors, how much compensation will I get?

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