" ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR: A MENTAL HOSPITAL " 1974 PSYCHOLOGY FILM TREATMENT OF MENTALLY ILL XD50364

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    Produced by CRM productions in conjunction with Psychology Today this educational film titled “Abnormal Behavior: A Mental Hospital” from 1974 takes the viewer around Gateways Hospital and Community Health Center in Los Angeles (founded in 1953 and still in operation). Specifically, the film sheds light on the day to day happenings at what is considered “a modern psychiatric hospital” and how the hospital works to treat its patients battling schizophrenia. The film follows the story of four patients and highlights staff members such as Mr. Louis Ziskind, Dr. Solon Samuels (a famed psychiatrist who pioneered use of lithium to treat manic-depressive disorders), pathologist Dr. Joseph Pessin, Dr. Jerome Jacobson, Dr. Albert J. Boner, Dr. Martin Coleman, and Alyce Wade Urbach through interviews and footage of them interacting with patients. In addition to the contributions and appearances of the hospital staff, the film utilized the expertise of advisor Albert Mehrabian Ph.D. UCLA, series advisor George S. Reynolds Ph.D. UC San Diego and consultant Michael Crichton. The film was additionally directed by Neil Reichline and Tom Lazarus, photographed by Neil Reichline and featured Bill Kaplan as head of sound and Cliff Fenneman as editor.
    Man walking woman down hallway of a mental hospital (0:39). Freeze frame with title of film (1:16). Close-up of a woman's face (2:07). Administrator of the hospital, Mr. Ziskind, talking to camera (2:13). Observational laboratory (3:02). Interview with a young male patient in an observational laboratory - interviewer has the subject recite presidents in backwards order starting with President Nixon (3:55-6:55). A doctor explains the purpose of the memory test and impacts of antipsychotic medication (7:04). A doctor walks halls and points out bedrooms (8:13). Another doctor Interviews woman from the opening credits who is a patient named Telly who first came to the hospital on Easter, she displays symptoms of acute psychotic break (8:44-12:38). Mr. Ziskind walks the grounds of the facility explaining the structure and scheduling of activities for patients (12:38). A doctor walks hand in hand with a patient exhibiting catatonic panic and then gives an explanation of the phenomenon (13:24). Footage of this patient on a different day being guided through the hospital ward (14:55). A doctor has an interview with a middle-aged male patient, close-up shots of gesticulations (15:13). Doctor sits in his office and gives an explanation on the patient's prognosis (17:18). Another doctor gives an explanation on electroshock therapy or electro convulsive treatment aka electroconvulsive therapy (17:57). Previously interviewed middle-aged male patient undergoes this therapy (18:26-22:36). Elderly female patient gets interviewed (22:38). A doctor gives a prognosis on this patient’s state (23:07). Freeze frame of this doctor comforting the female patient and voice-over explanation of how anxiety can trigger such a psychotic episode (26:13).
    CRM productions was a division of McGraw-Hill that produced educational programs.
    Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a medical treatment most commonly used in patients with severe major depression or bipolar disorder that has not responded to other treatments. ECT involves a brief electrical stimulation of the brain while the patient is under anesthesia.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 438

  • @glenbearh9109
    @glenbearh9109 Рік тому +125

    I have worked in the mental health field for 22 years and I loved the work. My heart was in it because I have empathy and feel these people suffer more then most. Physical pain is tough but mental pain is beyond the pall. I just felt a need to try and bring some stability and yes, love into their lives. If I could bring a little joy and caring then I was doing my part as a human.

    • @davinadavina1331
      @davinadavina1331 Рік тому +20

      i have schizoaffective depression. i want to thank you for caring for us.

    • @glenbearh9109
      @glenbearh9109 Рік тому +1

      Very kind of you to say. I hope you are doing well. I have not worked for years but did love my job. A person left a letter in her room and stated how much she enjoyed when I and another person were working our shift. This simple thing had me in tears. Nice to know you touch a life.
      @@davinadavina1331

    • @katherinea.williams3044
      @katherinea.williams3044 Рік тому +9

      @@davinadavina1331I saw 2 of your shorts and I think you’re absolutely lovely!
      I have a LGBTQ son, so I can relate; I just wanted to let you know how lovely I think you are.
      Wishing you a happy and healthy Holiday!And thank you for your service!
      Love & Light from Miami Shores🦚
      Stay safe mate✌🏼🌎
      Have a care for one another🫧🌲🖤

    • @davinadavina1331
      @davinadavina1331 Рік тому

      @@katherinea.williams3044 i appreciate it, i will upload my story in a minute

    • @slacktoryrecords4193
      @slacktoryrecords4193 8 місяців тому

      @@katherinea.williams3044Your son is Lesbian, Gay, bisexual, trans, AND queer? Really?

  • @glowgirl8171
    @glowgirl8171 7 місяців тому +115

    My parents admitted me to a hospital for depression when I was 20 yrs. old. I had 21 ECTs. Within an hour after each 'treatment', while I was still confused from the seizure, I'd be questioned by a doctor. At that time, I would say anything to make them stop. 52 years later, I am just now finding myself and realizing I have a place on earth like everyone else.

    • @freddyfurrah3789
      @freddyfurrah3789 6 місяців тому +3

      Good Luck

    • @RamPRT
      @RamPRT 6 місяців тому +4

      Keep the faith my friend and stay strong.

    • @BeABetterPersonToday
      @BeABetterPersonToday 5 місяців тому +3

      This is heartbreaking to hear. I’m so sorry

    • @VestalNumbre
      @VestalNumbre 5 місяців тому

      @@glowgirl8171 (⁠ ⁠╹⁠▽⁠╹⁠ ⁠)(⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠) hello 👋 so I was wondering you know how they have math books 📚
      The First of Chronicles
      5 These are the sons of Reuʹben,+ Israel’s firstborn. He was the firstborn, but because he defiled* the bed of his father,+ his right as firstborn was given to the sons of Joseph+ the son of Israel, so he was not enrolled genealogically for the right of the firstborn. 2
      I would love to collect some math books 📚

    • @RingJando
      @RingJando 5 місяців тому +1

      Glow my dear, glow with all your heart that has suffered so -

  • @discerningmind
    @discerningmind 2 роки тому +129

    Mental illness is so sad. It's not healing broken bones or recovering from surgery, it's inside the mind and very disabling. It was hard to watch this because the patients are suffering. I think during the era of this filming, doctors were relying on newer classes of drugs that were very potent and could do more harm than good. The last patient seems to have been a good candidate for the SSRI meds, like Prozac. Except we didn't have those back then.

    • @brucedanton3669
      @brucedanton3669 2 роки тому +6

      You are so right I am sure-thank you for your comments too!!

    • @discerningmind
      @discerningmind 2 роки тому +4

      @@brucedanton3669 Thank you.

    • @ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw
      @ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw Рік тому

      Prozac has been taken off the market. It causes suicide in some people.

    • @tommcdonough6086
      @tommcdonough6086 5 місяців тому +1

      They say the mind is the most dangerous neighborhood around. Very sad indeed.

  • @leegalen8383
    @leegalen8383 10 місяців тому +34

    We had no cure them, and we have no cure even now.

    • @Sonia-dn3np
      @Sonia-dn3np 5 місяців тому

      Yes and never will. The current antipsychotic medication is sold to every government throughout the world at $3-500 per monthly dosage. And they claim you need to take it for the rest of your life. Who’s going to invest in research for a cure - families and patients suffer daily throughout the world as antipsychotic medication makers become billionaires.

  • @The_Stockfather
    @The_Stockfather 2 роки тому +154

    “Who do you think was watching you?” While they watch, record audio and video, take pictures through a two way mirror. Gaslighting at its finest.

    • @Zamp-ju4me
      @Zamp-ju4me Рік тому +6

      My first thought was that looks just like a damn FBI interrogation room. My second thought is that maybe they thought that concealing the camera crew would make things better for the patient, but all the same it could send the patient into a psychotic paranoid spiral "WHO'S WATCHING ME? HOW MANY?". :-\

    • @AntniTrudi
      @AntniTrudi Рік тому

      Im sure the audio video content was used to get more money to cause more brain damage with their drugs , lobotomies, amd electric shock low key electric chair …..
      they gave my x wife est in 2009 without consulting me nor her mother. Only twice and now she makes strange noises and lays in bed all day amd night

    • @howardelzey2760
      @howardelzey2760 5 місяців тому +4

      Humans Can sense when they are being observed. It's a primal survival instinct. So these patients know they are being watched and the "smart people" are indeed gaslighting these people. This is why I have very little respect for academics.

    • @susanm7925
      @susanm7925 5 місяців тому

      @@howardelzey2760 The whole health care industry is a scam... Especially "mental" health "professionals". psychiatry is the newest medical Dr. "specialty". Big pharma (farm) is poisoning everyone who swallows/injects their drugs. Bottom line $.

  • @rlic9206
    @rlic9206 2 роки тому +97

    My mother worked in a state hospital in the 70s.
    In the winter, the homeless would sign in to have a warm place with food.
    Since then they changed the rules, where you can't do that anymore.
    They also closed a good number of state hospitals.
    Care given was subpar but it was there.
    Just like nursing homes today. Poor care by people who don't want to do there job.

    • @jazziez6467
      @jazziez6467 2 роки тому +3

      I doubt that cause they were experimented on without their permission and locked up without anyways for release, so I think your mom is mistaken.

    • @Anonymous-gu2cw
      @Anonymous-gu2cw 2 роки тому +10

      You got that right about nursing homes. I live in one and, not all, but I say about 60-70 percent of employees here clearly don't want to do their job!

    • @ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw
      @ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw Рік тому

      Exactly !

    • @jeremywanner4526
      @jeremywanner4526 Рік тому +7

      Now they put mentally ill in jail.

    • @cac2821
      @cac2821 5 місяців тому +1

      The reason the aides at nursing homes seem to not want their job is because they are over worked and under paid. The homes give twice the amount of patients then what is allowed by state law, the facilities work them in 12 hour shifts with no breaks, the pay is literally sh!t especially compared to the wear and tear it does to the body and The list goes on. People want compassion but they don’t want to give it. The next time you see someone that helps you, how about asking how their day is or try understanding their predicament instead of just assuming, kindness goes a long ways. I was in the medical field for many years until I couldn’t anymore and it was far from easy. What kept me going was the patients and even then that came to an end when I was losing the patients I loved hence I walked away.

  • @rlic9206
    @rlic9206 2 роки тому +72

    If you have someone in a nursing home, make sure they get good care. Don't be afraid to demand it.

    • @WindTurbineSyndrome
      @WindTurbineSyndrome Рік тому +8

      Thank you for your comment. Having a patient with an advocate is absolutely critical to get that person good care and stop abuse or neglect. The ones with NO ONE often languish.

    • @RepentfollowJesus
      @RepentfollowJesus Рік тому +3

      My husband and I will have nobody. It's frightening to think about. I pray for the rapture.

  • @anthonyaddison2383
    @anthonyaddison2383 2 роки тому +23

    Nice 16mm find! Film quality is excellent, not warped at all.

  • @alicejackson771
    @alicejackson771 2 роки тому +55

    “I want you to relax.” The doctor needed some social skills. He treated the patient like she was a naughty child in detention.

    • @renee4117
      @renee4117 Рік тому +6

      Over stimulating her with math questions is really f****** weird and messed up. I get upset when asked Math questions (tho this could've been fairly simple even for me ) and I am pretty mentally with it lol just don't like math. It can be very confusing and overwhelming for even a regular mentally well adult

    • @gudarstorst169
      @gudarstorst169 8 місяців тому +3

      ​@@renee4117They still do like this today

    • @renee4117
      @renee4117 8 місяців тому +1

      @@gudarstorst169 oh I'm aware I never said they didn't

    • @wmd40
      @wmd40 6 місяців тому +1

      they STILL treat us like this. nothing is different despite what people will try to tell you. stay healthy ❤

  • @caridumont2390
    @caridumont2390 Рік тому +17

    I feel that when you bombard them with questions of math (especially), or naming presidents in order, or dates and times...causes more undue stress on the patients. I can't even start at 100 and subtract 7, without counting on my fingers for the correct answer. That alone ins intimidating and would make me feel stupid and inadequate. Also, those Doctors seem to have severe communication problems and are socially lacking, more so than the patients. The way he stares them down is judgemental in a way. He is not at all comforting or kind with speaking with them, and jumping to the conclusions that someone needs life long medications to live life normally is rediculous. I would probably be acting the same way in such a situation, like lashing out at people that work there. I am sure he was provoked to do so considering the senerio.

  • @schalkespringer
    @schalkespringer 2 роки тому +78

    Periscope Films you do such a valuable service archiving and prsuriving this media that would otherwise be lost. I'm sorry people decide to use your comments section constantly to spout their conspiracy theories and agressive political comments

    • @darrolmcgraw7969
      @darrolmcgraw7969 2 роки тому +5

      That's the PC culture of today

    • @KingSlimjeezy
      @KingSlimjeezy 2 роки тому +3

      thats because us guys that are into history know the TRUTH

    • @beau1112
      @beau1112 2 роки тому +1

      Why are you sorry about that?? You are the softest most sensitive person I've ever seen

    • @katieh9986
      @katieh9986 Рік тому +1

      I think if they cared, they'd have a) replied to you and/or b) turned the comments off. 😆

  • @jamierupert7563
    @jamierupert7563 2 роки тому +125

    EVERY single psychiatrist/psychologist I ever met/knew was absolutely crazier than the patients they were trying to treat. Absolutely appalling. They are ALL very VERY weird.

    • @marine4lyfe85
      @marine4lyfe85 Рік тому

      Many go into the field because their own mental hygiene isn't healthy.

    • @iiNeedSkins
      @iiNeedSkins Рік тому +20

      This is an insane generalization.

    • @niky0408
      @niky0408 Рік тому +23

      It’s likely because many psychologists now become psychologists to try and understand their own mental issues

    • @misspinkpunkykat
      @misspinkpunkykat Рік тому +23

      My brother who was in med school on his psychiatry rotation said every psychiatrist he met there was crazier than ANY patient. He said they probably become psychiatrists because they want to go to school to learn about themselves better.

    • @SissyMchill1
      @SissyMchill1 Рік тому

      🙌🏻🎯💯

  • @lauradeleon4864
    @lauradeleon4864 2 роки тому +42

    My uncle was in a mental institution ever since he was 4 years old his mother which is my grandmother didn't know what was wrong with him and the doctors told her put in there he was deaf he was in his late 50 when he got out they went looking for him truly sickening

    • @sarahdixon6011
      @sarahdixon6011 Рік тому +6

      I think this is a horror that used to happen regularly. 😢

    • @MikeKelso
      @MikeKelso 9 місяців тому

      ​@@sarahdixon6011and you dont do anything about it

    • @wmd40
      @wmd40 6 місяців тому +2

      so many poor souls lived like that 😢

  • @anamairazapata6306
    @anamairazapata6306 11 місяців тому +6

    I love the introduction of this film. I agree with what the doctor said, under the pressure of extreme anxiety any body can act out in a “weird” way. This is Calle the fight flight response

  • @Popesontour
    @Popesontour 2 роки тому +64

    We watch this film through the filter of today. And most people think oh God how terrible. But actually through the lense of treatment its right there. Theres an armchair psychology doctor in every comment. As a student of psychology I find this pretty much what we have today. We need more state hospitals. Theres a two year wait for a bed at Austin State Hospital. Most people who need hospitalization are languishing In county jails. We need major funding for building more state hospitals.

    • @stephanied9629
      @stephanied9629 6 місяців тому +3

      As a psych nurse in a state psych hospital for over a decade, I disagree. This video is no where near psychiatry today.

    • @izmelo
      @izmelo 6 місяців тому +1

      Many of the treatments in this that are still used today are used in very specific contexts or have been modified for use today. Back then, they indiscriminately handed out diagnoses, strong meds, and extreme treatment to those who didnt need them. They didnt know very much about mental illness. They would also keep the patients there indefinitely. Getting out or being declared cured was a long road back then

    • @Sonia-dn3np
      @Sonia-dn3np 5 місяців тому +1

      I agreee on needing more hospitals and funding. It’s 100% true the mentally I’ll are sitting in jails when they should have received hospitalisation and treatment before the offending.

  • @LRBeforeTheInternet
    @LRBeforeTheInternet 2 роки тому +268

    Honestly, I feel like every one of these doctors was socially awkward and likely brought out the worst in these patients.

    • @Swybryd-Nation
      @Swybryd-Nation 2 роки тому +25

      And you finished your residency when?…Nope the doctors were fine. these people unfortunately were severely mentally ill. It’s nobody’s fault but genetics.

    • @Swybryd-Nation
      @Swybryd-Nation 2 роки тому +6

      Nope the doctors were fine. these people unfortunately were severely mentally ill. It’s nobody’s fault but genetics.

    • @LRBeforeTheInternet
      @LRBeforeTheInternet 2 роки тому +33

      @@Swybryd-Nation You need a residency in order to see whether or not a doctor has a good bedside manner? I'm sorry, but you're clearly reading into some context that simply doesn't exist within my original statement, Marshall.

    • @LRBeforeTheInternet
      @LRBeforeTheInternet 2 роки тому +1

      @@BigReptileCrew What difference? I'm not sure what your reply is even making reference to.

    • @LRBeforeTheInternet
      @LRBeforeTheInternet 2 роки тому +1

      @@BigReptileCrew Thank you for clarifying what "difference" you were referring to.

  • @alphaomega8373
    @alphaomega8373 2 роки тому +17

    70's melodies had so much hope and wonder in them :)

  • @rlic9206
    @rlic9206 2 роки тому +31

    When you see the poor care in homes today by the ones working there, it shakes your faith in your fellow man

    • @diablo666541
      @diablo666541 2 роки тому +2

      Back in old days thy shock treated you or perform labotomies

    • @Consistentlycrazy
      @Consistentlycrazy 2 роки тому +3

      @@diablo666541 they still do electric shock therapy on some people, it can actually be really helpful xx

    • @jkarma3356
      @jkarma3356 2 роки тому

      @@Consistentlycrazy not really.

  • @rlic9206
    @rlic9206 2 роки тому +31

    If humans gave a care about there fellow man, what a great world this would be.

  • @piercedcrimson1
    @piercedcrimson1 Рік тому +27

    Patient: *breathes wrong*
    Doctor: patient is showing signs of mental instability

  • @barbklayman7429
    @barbklayman7429 Рік тому +17

    He wanted to go out and play basketball,, now that would be therapeutic

    • @wtconroe879
      @wtconroe879 Рік тому

      Psyche hospital I work at allows that & the consumption of tobacco by the patients, it's the small comforts that mean the most sometimes.

    • @KyleHunt-b9u
      @KyleHunt-b9u 6 місяців тому +2

      he seemed good and is bright. Why was he even there? for having emotions ?

  • @lynntravels
    @lynntravels 2 роки тому +41

    I live in a constant state of anxiety and fear, As many parents that are raising children with autism or other special needs, I have medications that help me as well hobbies that help me on a daily basis.

  • @ajf369
    @ajf369 11 місяців тому +7

    A lot of psychologists lack wisdom, (experience) of vision. Its mainly academic and not inner mind sight. I have both. I believe i would make an excellent psychologist.
    Its art, its numbers, its energy and being able to see LIFE from anothers eyes is a gift and being able to speak to all kinds of people is a gift. More importantly having the heART to Listen with understanding. ❤

  • @truthspeaker3728
    @truthspeaker3728 Рік тому +37

    electro schock treatment always sounded more as a torture not a medical treatment

    • @lilcricket4379
      @lilcricket4379 6 місяців тому

      Their boredom needs a chuckle. Fools.

    • @lauraturner7048
      @lauraturner7048 4 місяці тому +3

      I had ECT done back in 2014 for Major Depression. It is done in a much more humane way than back in the 1950’s. I did have short term memory loss, but that was temporary. I do feel much better, now.

    • @matthewthomasjames
      @matthewthomasjames 3 місяці тому

      It actually causes brain damage, which sometimes helps with depression.

  • @dannydougin3925
    @dannydougin3925 9 місяців тому +7

    I see this was filmed at 1891 Effie St, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (Gateways Hospital and Mental Health Center) Sadly most of these people are gone, but that might be better for them.
    13:20 Wow, you could not hold hands with a patient today.
    The ending credit says this was produced in 1971, but it must have taken a few years to be released in 1974.

  • @ih8utbe
    @ih8utbe 6 місяців тому +6

    Been in a psychiatric hospital. They had activities and less therapy. Didnt think it helped

  • @kr-pm1xg
    @kr-pm1xg Рік тому +9

    When we drove passed the Huge Asylum..
    They had in a city 100 miles from my home..
    My mother would say..
    "That's where you will wind up if you don't behave."..
    ...I was glad when they shut it down.

    • @avroe1
      @avroe1 Рік тому +2

      This is poetry

  • @puccipower
    @puccipower Рік тому +14

    That poor woman at 12 who broke down was definitely in a manic episode of bipolar. She seemed like she had a great personality otherwise and was trying to carry on being her bubbly self. She just couldn't handle the math problem! I feel so bad for her. :(

    • @JennaDonutz
      @JennaDonutz 6 місяців тому +4

      He said that they are making them all do stuff that they don't want to do... with people who are married and they don't know, this is actually very sick

  • @oronasundial
    @oronasundial Рік тому +24

    This was back when the U.S. actually cared a little about the mentally ill. Today, most of the hospitals are underfunded or closed down. All three of the one's in my city are closed. You now see these people homeless In the street's are in jails. It's absolutely atrocious.

    • @WindTurbineSyndrome
      @WindTurbineSyndrome Рік тому +5

      It was getting expensive so let's just shut down aging infrastructure and stop paying for mental health and now many cities have just swaths of homeless and mentally ill wandering unable to take care of themselves without assistance. Sickening. In Germany everyone is given a home regardless of circumstance they don't put up with homelessness.

    • @oronasundial
      @oronasundial Рік тому

      @@WindTurbineSyndromeTrue, but that's because it literally took Germany a holocaust and year's of war to show their errors of they're ways now they are along with most of Europe far more advanced social wise along these issue's. Here in the u.s. we have long since have religious fanatics called Republicans and the far right. They hate most minorities and poor people in general and do just about everything in thier power to take away all traces of them in our society's. That's the endgame for them.

    • @SissyMchill1
      @SissyMchill1 Рік тому

      Make no mistake the mass majority of these place back then were absolutely horrible to these people. And as far as the homelessness again the mass majority are drug addicts. Not self medicating but enjoy the high. And some are just lazy and that’s why the are homeless. The amount that are homeless due to mental illness is so very low. Even today mental hospitals are absolutely horrible to people that are in these facilities. State ran or privately ran. These videos definitely show what they want shown.

    • @AkathisiaWarrior
      @AkathisiaWarrior Рік тому +2

      There’s mental wards everywhere though.

    • @AkathisiaWarrior
      @AkathisiaWarrior Рік тому

      @@SissyMchill1most homeless people are addicts and some are just lazy?

  • @0MoTheG
    @0MoTheG 2 роки тому +29

    2022 and we still don't know much more.
    Medication, drugs has/have become better but science still can't explain how or why things go wrong.
    We struggle to even diagnose.

    • @diablo666541
      @diablo666541 2 роки тому +4

      Like bein bipolar we didn't start hearing bout till early 2000 may be late 90s . Dr still can't give a sensible diagnosis same as covid 19.

    • @stefanhortell4046
      @stefanhortell4046 Рік тому +1

      We dont understand how the brain works…..propebly never will.

  • @mae8861
    @mae8861 Рік тому +9

    I could not subtract 7 from previous numbers either. What a stressful test.

    • @ChristopherLightfoot-zu3kb
      @ChristopherLightfoot-zu3kb Рік тому

      If you could subtract 7 from previous numbers you then are obviously intelligent, autistic or have a mental disorder and need to see a shrink . ( I am joking of course 😂😂😂)

    • @franny5295
      @franny5295 6 місяців тому

      Just subtract 10 and add back 3.

  • @rickydrone9274
    @rickydrone9274 Рік тому +8

    "One flew over the cuckoos nest" exposed and shut down a lot of these places.

  • @horsenaroundkiki9957
    @horsenaroundkiki9957 Рік тому +12

    The crazy thing is that all of the patients were usually extremely doped up on strong medications.

  • @AkathisiaWarrior
    @AkathisiaWarrior Рік тому +19

    This makes me ill. I was misdiagnosed as “bipolar” all my life. These people ruin lives. You have no idea how the ECT actually works? But you’re giving people ECT anyway?

    • @wmd40
      @wmd40 6 місяців тому +1

      I've heard from some it actually helps but most people just get memory loss (and tortured often bc they wouldn't give them meds to knock them out like they are supposed to)

    • @lauraturner7048
      @lauraturner7048 4 місяці тому +2

      I had it done for Major Depression. It did help me, but every one is different.

  • @justred5164
    @justred5164 3 місяці тому +2

    That guy knew those presidents! I’m not so sure I could do that!

  • @fantasticfraggle
    @fantasticfraggle Рік тому +20

    That was fascinating, from the perspective as a Registered Mental Health Nurse (UK). It feels like the 70s was the beginning of the new wave!
    I did however notice how the psychiatrists were more interrogatory in their approach of patient assessments and how ECT was a lot more commonly used... also the indignity of being shoved up in a room together, in recovery like a production line.
    Mental health care is not perfect, but there appears to continue to be improvements over the decades... too slow, I know :(

    • @Trump.is.a.nazzii
      @Trump.is.a.nazzii Рік тому +1

      A lot of these videos from decades ago were actually exaggerated. These psychiatrists could get grants and more money if they make waves that reach deep pockets.

    • @Eirinen_E34
      @Eirinen_E34 Рік тому +3

      NHS mental health services are not good... especially today.

  • @fretboardmaster70
    @fretboardmaster70 2 роки тому +13

    Jesus Christ.. that ECT machine was an antique from the 1940s.

  • @lc2748
    @lc2748 Рік тому +1

    The first 1:30 seconds narration are very insightful.

  • @cameronjackson7319
    @cameronjackson7319 Рік тому +14

    Imagine being held in a mental institution for months without a relevant diagnosis and without believing yourself to be mentally ill, going from a helthy weight to being overweight, seeing your poor health accumulate over time. Imagine being put in solitary confinement for over a week at a time for petty reasons relating to the toxic properties of the government chemical, biological, radiological or propaganda programs.

  • @dudleyrathborne9849
    @dudleyrathborne9849 2 місяці тому

    My onset of Manic- Depression and other things happened the same year as this film .It brings back a lot memories .I also had 13 ECT's over a # of months ,but it is the very 1st time ,I've been able to witness the process .Now I know that Manic-Depression had not even been a diagnosed at that time . But eventually researchers coined that term and we now call it Bi-Polar . For me , Bi-Polar is a neat and polite term . But doesn't describe the Mania ,and dangerous depressions I experienced that the term Manic - Depression makes so clear . But thank Heaven I now have meds to treat and control the aliment .It changed my life ....

  • @KyleHunt-b9u
    @KyleHunt-b9u 6 місяців тому +2

    I worked in psych for 16 yrs. Times have changed TG

  • @loveycat5474
    @loveycat5474 2 роки тому +25

    In the 70s too many people were labeled as schizophrenic. If you showed a little fear or anxiety you were labeled schizophrenic .many people with depression would get that label too because people with depression hear voices too. The difference is the feeling of sadness. Most schizophrenic do not feel anything except maybe intense fear.

    • @friedtea9969
      @friedtea9969 2 роки тому +8

      Where in the world did you draw the idea schizophrenic people can't experience emotion? Of course they have emotions, however they may have deficits in identifying emotion and may not be expressive about it. I'm not denying people were misdiagnosed as schizophrenic, but the statements you made aren't factual. Schizophrenic people can also have depression, so separating mental illnesses based off of "level of sadness" isn't really valid. And also, I believe the reason there were misdiagnoses in the 60s and 70s is because racism played a part in it, and how more people of color were diagnosed as schizophrenic than white people

    • @myredpencil
      @myredpencil Рік тому +6

      @@friedtea9969 I think perhaps Lovey Cat was trying to imply that "most schizophrenics do not feel" emotional changes as a result of their mental illness, except for a great deal more fear. There may be otherwise normal ranges of emotions experienced outside of bad episodes.

    • @friedtea9969
      @friedtea9969 Рік тому +1

      @@myredpencil yes, of course. I'm not sure how I Interpreted the the original comment 3 months ago, but I suppose I thought it was odd to use a level of sadness. You're right though, schizophrenic people do have troubles with emotional changes and expressions. I guess I somehow misunderstood what lovey cat was saying. I appreciate your comment, it's always nice to have someone to clarify things

    • @WindTurbineSyndrome
      @WindTurbineSyndrome Рік тому +2

      Nowadays everyone is diagnosed as bipolar. DSMVI is just a way to bill for insurance.

  • @jreding132
    @jreding132 2 роки тому +18

    i don't know if I can remember back five US Presidents.

    • @jamierupert7563
      @jamierupert7563 2 роки тому

      Haha me either😂

    • @mackthnife3
      @mackthnife3 Рік тому +5

      That’s a terrible mental status question. It assumes all people pay attention to politics.

    • @JamesWilliams-gv7zd
      @JamesWilliams-gv7zd Рік тому +1

      I can't remember back 5 days🤷‍♂️

    • @franny5295
      @franny5295 6 місяців тому

      I know I can't.

    • @franny5295
      @franny5295 6 місяців тому

      ​@@mackthnife3That part. Biden, Trump, Obama, and from there I'd be guessing.

  • @0MoTheG
    @0MoTheG 2 роки тому +14

    10:00 Hm, how come she is so stressed that she can't substract? I have trouble doing it myself, especially if somebody is waiting on me.

    • @terrydavis8451
      @terrydavis8451 2 роки тому +3

      I cry when people make me do math too.

    • @manueladarazsdi9675
      @manueladarazsdi9675 2 роки тому +3

      I have discalculia so I can't do math in my head under the best of circumstances.

    • @0MoTheG
      @0MoTheG 2 роки тому

      @@manueladarazsdi9675 But you can on paper if no numbers are involved? Algebra, Calculus?

    • @m6666
      @m6666 Рік тому +1

      I get to 93 and then I'm stuck. Have never been able to do that.

    • @gudarstorst169
      @gudarstorst169 8 місяців тому +1

      Stressed out, feeling forced, compromising situation

  • @Lisa1111
    @Lisa1111 2 роки тому +6

    As society mentally deteriorates? I feel that it is most important to understand these diseases the best that we can.

  • @mauiskater
    @mauiskater 6 місяців тому +1

    Fascinating stuff ❤❤❤

  • @martincvitkovich724
    @martincvitkovich724 2 роки тому +10

    The first patient looked like a cross between Elvis and Jack Nicholson

    • @Eirinen_E34
      @Eirinen_E34 Рік тому

      One of the Drs/ Director of the department looked like Ronald Reagan and John Goodman

  • @packrat1210
    @packrat1210 Рік тому +6

    Well we are electrical beings so I guess ECT might help to reset the brain in some way. If I had to name all those presidents I am afraid I might not do nearly as well as the young man did. I feel so bad for people who suffer mental illness. I’m sure whatever they are experiencing seems very real to them and must be very confusing. Imagine believing that you are dead and yet your talking and walking. She experienced an earthquake and a fire. How traumatizing.

    • @littlewoodchopper2659
      @littlewoodchopper2659 Рік тому +2

      I worked with a guy. Luckily he admitted he couldn't do it and quit. He had electrical shock and they fried his brain

  • @LagrimadeInvierno
    @LagrimadeInvierno 7 місяців тому +3

    Im Schizophrenic and Psyquiatry saved my life, increase my quality of life and prevent me from enter into cults and religions.

  • @barbararoth1339
    @barbararoth1339 Рік тому +12

    One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest vibes.

  • @katrinavang5862
    @katrinavang5862 Рік тому +4

    He said he tells them that it's 2 way mirror and "asks" their permission to be photographed and observed? I doubt that was possible with some of the patients and I doubt they did that always with their permission.

    • @EazyP_Z
      @EazyP_Z 2 місяці тому

      There's probably a consent form amongst 30 other pages of signatures that their guardian fills out upon admission. That's the "permission", I guarantee it.

  • @countdown2xstacy
    @countdown2xstacy 2 роки тому +11

    The lunatic is in my head
    You raise the blade
    You make the change
    You rearrange me 'till I′m sane
    You lock the door
    And throw away the key
    And there's someone in my head, but it's not me

    • @Don_Master83
      @Don_Master83 Рік тому +1

      Was literally listening to this right before I watched this video lol

    • @g1egz
      @g1egz 6 місяців тому +3

      @@Don_Master83oh, so we got some Pink Floyd listeners on here, ? lol

  • @jadelynn1703
    @jadelynn1703 6 місяців тому +2

    Ask me to do math over and over without paper, I would cry.

  • @whereismyxanax
    @whereismyxanax 2 роки тому +9

    no one nowadays could name 5 presidents in a row🤣

    • @fuzzballzz36
      @fuzzballzz36 Рік тому +1

      Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton. 93, 86, 79, 72, 65, 58, 51, 44, 37, 30, 23, 16, 9, 2. It's not that tough.

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 2 роки тому +4

    I really hope we advance our understanding, brain scans, and really intricate improvements to our scientific knowledge of what is going on in individual people's body. What's occuring with the brain. Really improve the future treatments, medicine, and natural function stability and how we can overcome the problem, if possible if we can improve the condition, on such a deeper level than we have ever understood how to treat, help, improve mental health disorders. I know that there is so much more to learn, so much more to find we can do, finding causes, maybe external environmental factors that could cause things like plaque build up in the brain, or messing up your endocrine system, I mean there could be, there has to be so much more to discover, to learn, way better ways to treat conditions with much improved medicine's because I know we can do so much better. Even currently we are still to this day, barely providing any true treatment, after my grandma just recently passed away not too long after developing a very sudden onset brain disorder.. we struggled to get any treatment or testing, they thought she had Louie bodies disease which I think is a rarer form of a fast onset dementia type brain disease. It's just crazy how she could go from her normal self to clearly something is going wrong in her brain function and to not be able to get good treatment, if I could I would be so motivated to work in a laboratory to focus on studying the make up of the brain on a macro scale, and hopefully find ways to lessen the amount of dementia type brain disorders and other similar things of that nature....

    • @cafebacon8974
      @cafebacon8974 Рік тому +1

      You are what you eat. Start at molecules

  • @shawnastephens1536
    @shawnastephens1536 2 роки тому +6

    When I go see my shrink I'm only in there for 5 or ten minutes top. Visits are alot shorter because of a unbearable case load. Pretty much an assembly line.

  • @RamPRT
    @RamPRT 6 місяців тому +1

    How far we’ve come on simply how to talk to someone in trauma or suffering from mental illness. Unfortunately these doctors only knew what knew back then. Taught what they are taught. Sad.

  • @anamairazapata6306
    @anamairazapata6306 11 місяців тому +4

    I wonder why this patients act like this? Could it be because they are in a strange environment? And also because they are medicated

    • @wutwaTo542
      @wutwaTo542 9 місяців тому +1

      my guess is heavy medication.
      but I imagine how would that place look if they weren't medicated.... would be horror

  • @shushymcsecret993
    @shushymcsecret993 Рік тому +5

    A psych facility almost killed me not exaggerating. BUTTTTT on the bright side...I am stronger

    • @MrsBee-uo2lc
      @MrsBee-uo2lc Рік тому +1

      I'm sorry that happened to you. Most people have no idea how bad these places still are. Almost lost my mother to one too. Blessings and love to you. 😔🤍

    • @gudarstorst169
      @gudarstorst169 8 місяців тому

      What happened

  • @felicia7756
    @felicia7756 10 місяців тому +1

    The female patient seemed very uncomfortable with that cold man! He was irritating her with the back and forth questions. The room they placed her in was cold, uncomfortable. Her eyes were saying so much, she deserved to be treated better

  • @cjdfv
    @cjdfv Рік тому +2

    I like watching shit from before I was born. Makes me feel younger than I really am.

  • @plekkchand
    @plekkchand Рік тому +4

    Is it not possible that one can have a high "intellectual function" while not giving two shits about who is President?

  • @qualitestqualitest-wt2wl
    @qualitestqualitest-wt2wl Рік тому +7

    Man.. I would love love love, to walk to the depths of these places just to smoke a cigarette with these patients or even share a cupcake or brownie.. the other half of me feels like they will mistake me for a patient and never let me out, and the day they do, I'll be waking up.

  • @D.T.A1
    @D.T.A1 8 місяців тому +2

    This was 45 years ago.. Im sure or at least i hope they have learned from this ..

  • @RingJando
    @RingJando 5 місяців тому

    In 1926, Romanian psychiatrist, Constance Pascal, introduced the term “shock” to psychiatry, which was developed into the term electro-convulsive (shock treatment)

  • @jeremywanner4526
    @jeremywanner4526 Рік тому +8

    We don’t know electroshock treatment works but we’ll do it anyway.

  • @saramilena.
    @saramilena. 6 місяців тому +1

    so, were they really patients, or actors to made the roleplay for the educational film?

  • @gailspaw5521
    @gailspaw5521 Рік тому +2

    Very Sad😢

  • @angieobrien4215
    @angieobrien4215 2 місяці тому +1

    The dr talking to the black woman sounded so weird!

  • @JohnFiocchi
    @JohnFiocchi 3 місяці тому

    When I was a teenager in the early 70s several of my friends took Acid.
    About 6 or 7 of them had bad trips and were restrained and transported to the Ancora Psychiatric Hospital on different occasions.
    When i visited them they did in fact acknowledge who I was, but could not recall our childhood years as if it had been wiped out.
    Some of them were classically trained musicians and skilled players, but they couldnt play their instruments after the Acid trip. What they did play was nonsensical as if it had been wiped out. As if the Acid took their talent away.
    They spent months in Ancora and when they were released they never resurfaced as musicians let alone people. They were never able to function in the community again. Can you explain this???

    • @Texaslife98
      @Texaslife98 2 місяці тому

      It’s possible that the doses were so high, that it overloaded their brain’s connections thus causing brain damage. Brain damage is known to cause amnesia as well as damaging the brain’s ability to make new memories. I would compare this to that of a circuit board blowing out, from too much energy being used.

  • @wonderfulworld5134
    @wonderfulworld5134 Рік тому +2

    Thank you. Since Thor the God of Thunder was led to believe high voltage electrrical shock was something good while he was in Daytona Beach, FL. 1995, someone invisible ran past our open window as soon as we woke up and gave us the electric shock pads, and said while invisiable. YOU LIKE THAT don't you? Really makes me realize I was not crazy and all this was really going on when you made Thor do the same thing as the Para Medics.

  • @DeplorableLeft
    @DeplorableLeft 2 роки тому +37

    You could film something similar today at the DNC national convention

    • @juicyfruit6311
      @juicyfruit6311 2 роки тому

      Biden would be in the dementia ward at a SNF. AOC would be in the behavioral health unit. Ol' Teddy K and Nasty Nancy's hubby would be at an AA meeting.

    • @Doodlesthegreat
      @Doodlesthegreat 2 роки тому +6

      As opposed to the GOP national convention, which is more of a "Triumph of The Will" vibe.

    • @MyHMMWVaddiction
      @MyHMMWVaddiction 2 роки тому

      😂😂😂😂🍻🇺🇸

    • @wfdix1
      @wfdix1 2 роки тому +2

      Good point, and quite relevant. For example, older psychotics “elbowing” young children for no legitimate reason.

    • @wfdix1
      @wfdix1 2 роки тому +1

      @@Doodlesthegreat Leni would most likely re-title as Triumph of Common Sense and Logic.

  • @thomaspierce9458
    @thomaspierce9458 9 місяців тому

    Yes yes... Back when we had them, right chap?

  • @Boxerluver
    @Boxerluver 4 місяці тому

    That last statements says everything. We need to look at EVERYONE as sick basically. Well they have certainly accomplished that, for the detriment of society.

  • @michelletripp4797
    @michelletripp4797 Рік тому +2

    I hope the staff is the same when the cameras are gone!!!!!!!!!!

  • @BushyHairedStranger
    @BushyHairedStranger Рік тому

    The history of the first Asylums of Europe, the first Madhouses of North America, & the first Asylums & workhouses in the Pacific Northwest.

  • @foxmccloud7055
    @foxmccloud7055 2 роки тому

    Fascinating.

  • @donnataylor572
    @donnataylor572 6 місяців тому +1

    The doctors should not be forcing patients to do something they do want to do.

  • @Zamp-ju4me
    @Zamp-ju4me Рік тому +2

    17:07 - sounds like the doctor "shhhhhhhh"'d the patient. :-(

  • @lightdark00
    @lightdark00 2 роки тому +19

    We badly need mental institutions back.
    They were an impedance to MK Ultra and they kept society stronger.

    • @billoddiea
      @billoddiea 2 роки тому +2

      Agreed. We threw the baby out with the bath water when we threw them onto the street under the nobly misguided and fundamentally flawed ideology of societal integration

    • @afj617
      @afj617 2 роки тому +1

      yes throughout the 80s and 90s they eventually got defunded to the point of closure. The idea was that we could provide the same or better quality treatment in the community, however no significant “community” psychiatric treatment really followed and prisons are now where severe mental illness is treated. We put someone on the moon in 1969, but we cannot, with trillions of dollars, possibly build these again and give tons of people good jobs in the process. Run them well this time we need them now more than ever.

    • @billoddiea
      @billoddiea 2 роки тому

      @@afj617
      Precisely

    • @agems56
      @agems56 2 роки тому

      We also threw babies out as garbage when abortions became commonplace as a form of birth control rather than only as a life saving necessity to the mother or only after incest or rape!

    • @marywilliams9858
      @marywilliams9858 2 роки тому

      You are so right. Now the streets are full of neglected people who get addicted to drugs. They need a warm home, good food and meds to give them back their dignity. Also, therapy.

  • @whyimsmarterthanyou
    @whyimsmarterthanyou 2 роки тому +1

    I thought the lights would be flashing and flicker more often. You know . . . electro-shock therapy.

    • @brucedanton3669
      @brucedanton3669 2 роки тому

      That therapy is not used so much now surely due to drugs and that-is it I wonder? Thank you.

  • @indiosveritas
    @indiosveritas 2 роки тому +26

    All homeless should be immediately given a psychiatric evaluation (under pre 1960s guidelines) .
    If they are proven to be psychotic, immediate incarceration in mental institution .

    • @billoddiea
      @billoddiea 2 роки тому +8

      There is still a definite place for mental institutions

    • @alphaomega8373
      @alphaomega8373 2 роки тому +3

      Holy shit! lol

    • @indiosveritas
      @indiosveritas 2 роки тому +1

      @Maxine McKenzie 23
      Your time is coming to an end.
      Calling people fascist.
      America will succeed in spite of you and your cult .

    • @krisrhood2127
      @krisrhood2127 2 роки тому +1

      No

    • @indiosveritas
      @indiosveritas 2 роки тому +2

      @@krisrhood2127 State your case or remain the coward .

  • @spiltsoymilk
    @spiltsoymilk 7 місяців тому +1

    1971, not 1974. The copyright is in the end credits.

  • @letsgococo288
    @letsgococo288 Рік тому +19

    These people weren’t crazy, they just realised the whole world is a lie.

  • @djpricekut517
    @djpricekut517 Рік тому

    She's talking about going down the hill, and they know she knows something, but only wants him to describe what going down the hill is, where those guys don't know that, but knows she knows something.

    • @djpricekut517
      @djpricekut517 Рік тому

      she doesn't want to go with him much, since he didn't explain what going down the hill was.

    • @djpricekut517
      @djpricekut517 Рік тому

      where they did think she might be thinking about dreams, BUT ALSO THOUGHT, she meant going down the hill, but THEY THEMSELVES, not want to say it, and fake it's not, where they even know the village, is the area around Lake Elsinore, and still didn't want to say anything, people who were 39 - 110, where 2 of the naan (non), did say go down the hill, and both of them liked it, knowing what the other was talking about, but other didn't want them to describe it, so they didn't.

    • @djpricekut517
      @djpricekut517 Рік тому

      Your new google sign in, tap yes, is saying they all figured something out, apart from each other, and had to enter the same answer, where they can't tell it be by the devine at first.

    • @djpricekut517
      @djpricekut517 Рік тому

      turns to blue.. saying, "they never have poopie accidents," and they don't like that they are acting so well organized about hill bops, etc.

    • @djpricekut517
      @djpricekut517 Рік тому

      of the roberto type

  • @eeddfffgv9683
    @eeddfffgv9683 2 роки тому +5

    The guy talking at the start seems doped up to the extreme

  • @diablo666541
    @diablo666541 2 роки тому +4

    You think it was bad 70s you should seen the 40 n 50s back when thy used shock treatment n labodomies

    • @teekolinski491
      @teekolinski491 2 роки тому +1

      They still use ECT

    • @wtconroe879
      @wtconroe879 Рік тому

      ECT is still used for treatment resistant depression although this time around you're given a sedative & muscle relaxant.

    • @heartofglass7235
      @heartofglass7235 10 місяців тому

      yes. ect saved my life from depression. i was back to work in 3 weeks instead of 9 months

  • @DouglasUrantia
    @DouglasUrantia 2 роки тому +7

    This hospital was a real snake pit. Drugs, drugs and more drugs. Is it still in operation?

    • @diablo666541
      @diablo666541 2 роки тому +5

      Lot the places are now abandoned n use for paranormal investigation s which doesn't surprise me all bad things trigger spirt activities

  • @Anonymous-Australia-subrose369
    @Anonymous-Australia-subrose369 6 місяців тому

    yeah they used to tell you what you have. i nearly had shock therapy as a 10 yo in the late 80s but then mum said no and took me to a new dr and she got me a sleep test eeg and found i had tle. psyches are bad news. psilocybin therapy is the best way. did no one see the admitted that giving zoloft and shit does absolutely nothing to help the problem. it just numbs you till they think you might of forgotten why you were depressed. but real depression you dont know whats going on a lot of the time.

  • @terrydavis8451
    @terrydavis8451 2 роки тому +5

    22:11 What a barbaric treatment.

    • @jazziez6467
      @jazziez6467 2 роки тому

      They did that to my aunt over and over till she was brainless and never could leave the mental hospital, it was so sad.

    • @teekolinski491
      @teekolinski491 2 роки тому +1

      They still use it still. A friend of mine says it helps her depression.

    • @terrydavis8451
      @terrydavis8451 2 роки тому

      @@teekolinski491 Yes it is very effective for some things but is only done as a last result. They gave it out like candy to people who were just ass holes.

  • @christinefilas9392
    @christinefilas9392 8 місяців тому +1

    I must be a loon because I cant subtract 7 from 100 sequentially

  • @happycat1724
    @happycat1724 4 місяці тому +1

    Эксперименты над людьми запрещены. Психологическое давление запрещено. Психиатрические лечебницы запрещены Сувереном.

  • @jpvoodoo5522
    @jpvoodoo5522 8 місяців тому +1

    If they are mental patients, why are they able to consent to being recorded during interrogation?

    • @EazyP_Z
      @EazyP_Z 2 місяці тому

      They don't, their court appointed guardians do

  • @salvatorelicata8768
    @salvatorelicata8768 Рік тому +2

    Im telling you these people in charge were phuqed.
    I was born in 73.
    I grew up around this shit

  • @BrasspineappleProductions
    @BrasspineappleProductions 2 роки тому

    Doctor gave patient 💊
    🎥 📼 recorded results

  • @LawnMowersThingsThatMakeNoise
    @LawnMowersThingsThatMakeNoise 6 місяців тому

    patient "i''m dead now its too late, Dr. well just tell me since your dead it does not make any difference

  • @matthewjdouglas6471
    @matthewjdouglas6471 2 роки тому +13

    The doctor sound catatonic schizophrenic

  • @CletusHunnicutt
    @CletusHunnicutt Рік тому

    Me: John Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman...Come on, guy. You can get one more... ... ...

  • @marine4lyfe85
    @marine4lyfe85 Рік тому +1

    Hoover? It was Truman.

  • @365Condoms
    @365Condoms 2 роки тому +28

    psychiatry is least evolved medical science. It's pure guesswork