I work in a mental institution and sadly today things are still bad. It is so sad that majority of residents have no visitors or family. When they pass away there is no one to notify often times. I have worked there long enough that I am quite close to many of the residents. You can't help but get close when your getting them out of bed in the morning, helping them to bath and pick out clothes for the day. Many have the same clothes they have had for decades. It's always appreciated when people donate clothing. I can honestly say now I love many of the residents like family. Doctors have them so heavily medicated so they are easier to control but the side effects of up to forty pills a day are awful. I have two older ladies i care for but their mind is that of a couple 7yr olds. They still belive in santa and the easter bunny so I take them in gifts and treats and they get so excited. Somedays i take a group of ladies and give them mini makeovers by putting on make up and doing their hair. Many of my co workers are great but some are mean and like having the authority over them. Im like a mama bear with her cubs sometimes though and if I see abuse i always report it.
Bless people like you. We need you in this world. Thank goodness these people have someone to talk to. I also didn't know about the donating clothes thing so thank you for that idea.
Unfortunately your in the minority of staff who actually care...and that would be assuming your as compassionate as you proclaim in your post..it is possible isn't it that maybe you have greatly enhanced your niceness to your patients in order to feel less guilty?
40 pills a day.. wtf kind of doctors work there? 10/2 halidol and ativan will knock a patient out all night. Geodon, etc. Not 40 pills. Usually with right combination of meds a patient can turn around pretty well or make progress within a week or 2. Yall got an issue having the patients take 40 pills a day.
How so? They're photographs of people with mental illness. The photographers didn't put those looks on their faces. You call the pictures "horrific". Maybe you're the one who is afraid of what they don't understand.
Some of these people are violent and dangerous. They not only harm others, but themselves as well. If someone is yelling and screaming at strangers, understanding or not, we should be afraid.
@@TheBlueyedblond many of these people wouldn't have even been mentally unwell when they were placed in the institution. The amount of women far outweighed the amount of men, because they were put in there for silly things like PMS! (Edit, sent too soon). It is crazy (ironic) the stupid reasons people were institutionalised, do some googling, it's very interesting/sad.
Light Language has healed some people. Go to UA-cam channel named, I Am Manifest. Lee had a mental ill brother with the same illness has you. She has got him off the drugs for mental illness. It's all in healing first four chaktas. Please give it a chance. 🙏Namasta.
@@kirarasmom4274 there is nothing wrong with taking meds for different types of MH diagnoses.sometimes it's a matter of correcting brain chemistry. The right medication has given people, hope, stability, clear thinking, the possibility of a reasonably normal life, hopefully outside of an institution, outside of a state hospital. Better quality psych meds, is the main reason, that so many state hospitals have closed. I doubt that there is much medical evidence to prove that New Age practices, can cure Schizophrenia. However the right meds can keep you stable, and improve the quality of your life, & probably keep you out of the hospital. After allwould you recommend that a diabetic go off their medication? I doubt it.
Pennsylvania has closed alot of state hospitals. Dont go off your meds please! Lots of patients relapse, due to going off their meds. They become suicidal, often aggressive, assualtive, psychotic,delusional, hallucinating, etc. They frequently commit crimes, or become a danger to themselves or others. When they do, they get involuntarily committed to the hospital, for the physical safety of themselves & others. For some mentally ill people, meds are as essential as food, water and air. They are a blessing from God. He can bring healing through many sources!!! Healing is from God, even if it comes through medication. There is no shame in taking medication.
I have panic disorder and depression, and I'm so thankful that I live in this day and age. Seeing these poor people, what they endured, breaks my heart.
dont be fooled that its any different today, its even worse, and will be catastrophic because these people are actually normal.....they can see the reality of life and are lost in an uncaring world
Kari Solomon I don’t have depression but I have a panic disorder and it awful 😖 I mean it’s contradicting to your brain you want to be some cause of your disorder then you’re afraid to be alone because of your disorder you feel shut out and alone it all while your hearts racing you feel like ok this is the end makes you feel like life not worth living this way but just know we have ppl who love us dearly and they are worth it bless your heart I take my meds everyday cause it’s a rough life to live without
Yes! I make jokes about women with no noses and people rarely get it. It’s a crack on the “my husband isn’t a cheater” thing from the Victorian era. Wives would lose their noses and that’s how they’d find out their husbands been playing the harp without her.
every time I see these it breaks my heart. my daughter Is disabled and I think, she'd be in there if it were 100 years ago. abuse, neglect, horrible treatment it's just beyond terrible. no one deserves that. I feel so for those poor souls that had to endure that. :'(
A hundred years ago, you may not have been able to care for your daughter. Most of these people weren’t just physically disabled, they were mentally unstable, dangerous, or even criminally insane. Life was no cake walk then, and people just didn’t have the ability or resources to give care.
Exactly my feeling. My father and I watched a documentary on early 20th century ‘treatments’ and I started bawling. He asked me what was wrong and I told him that I was just realizing that if my mother had been born 50 years earlier that would have been her. (She is bipolar)
I've been in abandoned asylums a few times, as a self-proclaimed ghost Hunter, I can say the sorrow & sheer depression u feel from these people's wandering souls is almost impossible to ignore, even in death they're incomplete
I believe horrible events, and tragedies have a tendency to become what's known as residual hauntings: these events cling to the area and play over and over again.
A Crying shame when we say Ignorance is bliss I say no its that same Ignorance that.caide.Hate. Ward.Indiffernces we can all be sensitve nd.vunetalable at any given time TLC Right Support nd.meds.given if needed with care nd respect, like the commenter said with Dignity!!! What the world.needs love
@@79Rottie This shouldn't offend you. It's just a fact that fathers and husbands had more legal control and power over members of their family back then. Men were the heads of households and would be making these decisions.
They would place you here for things like depression, alcoholism, ect. To think how many could of been helped...but they were put thru all kinds of torture.......😢
Lisa Milito Holden if was only that... U could go to there cause u your husband accused u from cheatting or cause u didn't follow one stupid rule or cause u were homossexual... Sad world...
I pray their souls are at heavenly peace in our lords arms. Such sadness behind their eyes. The little boy made me feel sad. And some of those poor ladies were probably suffering and grieving the loss of children or had postnatal depression and had to be separated from their poor babies. Breaks my heart R.I.P to all from that era who suffered x
Well unfortunately it's too late for them and gods phone's out of service, but maybe we can do something for these people this time around instead relying on imaginaries to help them since that's what's got us here in the first place, relying on fairy tales and gods and angels and other stupid made up shit to fix the worlds problems. Hearts are always in the right place but for some reason heads can never be found.
drop the dead donkey google ‘what could put you in a mental institution 100yrs ago’ you’ll be surprised! Most were not rapists and murders, most were people who suffered physical and mental disabilities like Down syndrome, amputees, depression, autism, schizophrenia, ADHD. Homosexuality. Some were simple things like mild hysteria, a women who was suffering post natal depression, alcohol addiction, PTSD, a women who’s child had died, prostitutes... All these people were deemed unwell by societies standards and so were put into care, it was an easy way to ‘clean up’ the streets by locking away people who were different, who frightened ‘normal’ people.
For every picture you see here, there are *hundreds of thousands* of other *human beings* who lived and died in institutions and today they'd be LUCKY to be remembered as a *number...*
i remember a few years ago whe i was 13 or 14, i would have panic attacks every day before school, and sometimes durings and after school. i also dreaded sunday nights, cause all i could think about was going to school the next day. this was ongoing for 2 to 3 months. to think that if had been born earlier or been born in a different country, this could've been me. edit: im now 16 and doing so much better. i still suffer from panic attacks, but have them far less than before. (maybe once or twice a month)
But what are you doing to help the same people now turned out onto the streets??? Hugs and kisses??? What nonsense you talk. Virtue signaling - fake "compassion".
You can't go back in time to save these people, but you can help all the people who are suffering right now, this very moment. Unfortunately, people don't care about mental illness victims and victims of abuse until it's too late.
Judith Smith, you're just mad because you have no compassion, and no love in your heart...Life is pointless for you. Jessica Walker I feel you hun, I wish I could too.... And I always try to love on those who need it the most, even those who can be hateful. So I pray for you to know love and feel love Miss Judith...
Sad to think that people with illnesses and disabilities were incarcerated. My Dad’s sister was put in an asylum when she was 3 years old, having suffered a couple of seizures, that was in 1948. Thank goodness we’re more knowledgable today
This is very sad. I took care of a very sweet old lady in the nursing home I worked at who was committed to an insane asylum by her family just because she loved a man her family didn't approve of. She endured medical experiments and electroshock therapy.
Weird to think that could happen. I had a great, great grandmother who was institutionalized. She was evaluated and found "crazy." My family has the papers. I wouldn't think loving a man your family doesn't like would count as crazy. Maybe the parents paid them to take her? Someone may have some explaining to do when they are standing in front of their Maker.
Back in the old days a person could get institutionalized for some of the most dumbest things. I remember hearing about a man who put his son in a mental institution just because he mispronounced the word spoon. The little boy said "poon" and his dumbass father thought he was crazy. The father should've been institutionalized for being so damn stupid. >:(
My great uncle was subjected to electroshock therapy when he was young because he was gay. They thought it would ‘straighten him out.’ Needless to say, he had a very cold relationship with his mother when she was alive. So sad
It's much more fun to feel superior. A modern version of this is the Homeowners Association. Sick? Disabled? Abandoned? No money? You're STILL RESPONSIBLE!!
So sad 🙁 Living with scitzophrenia and Depression in the 21st century makes me feel so privileged , I didn't have to go through the torture of these poor people RIP beautiful souls :(
I Can't Forget is a book that has left an impression in my heart and mind for a long time by Eloise Davenport and her experience in a mental institution. One of my aunts was ill and in a mental hospital when I was a child. The horror stories I would hear about her were horrible. She finally got out.
redbutterflynine institutions run in the name of god , everything that is wrong with our world today ! Give thanks and praise to the new dawn of consciousness awaking .
no, the problem is people focusing on miniscule issues and when real issues arise, they sit on the sidelines helpless thinking/praying their god will come save them. why didnt god stop hitler? why hasnt god taken care of the leader of North Korea? why does god let children go hungry, homeless or get abused? there may be some great creator or something, but not one that cares what happens to humans or this planet, its our job to care but as a species we dont.
Carol deCausmeaker The people were uncontrollable and would hurt themselves or others. A distant relative of mine was in an oil field accident. He had brain damage and was very dangerous. The family was told to put him in a mental institution. They wouldn't. They just kept dangerous items away from him. One day he bought an ax and killed the whole family.
Carol deCausmeaker ..I was thinking the same thing, plus.. it seems that anyone who was different, whether it be from birth or something like a burns accident or sickness was incarcerated, since they couldn't contribute and needed looking after... breaks my heart 😢 I believe the world today isn't too different, but it's refugees now 😐😦
in that time, a woman could be put in an asylum on her husband's wishes. they were abused and grossly neglected and even tortured. given lobotomies, electrical current "therapy" they didnt just have dangerous people in them..
+April Palmer People cant look after everyone and the time back then were not as easy as they are today. Back then you could easily die of a cold, there was no "oh i feel bad i go to the doctor to get checked" and on top of it all, unlike today, people back then were not as wealthy and had to work much harder and longer than today. Also people back then would get much more children, not because they wanted many but because it was very common that a kid would die before it becomes a teenager, and yes that even happened in rich families. For example in Bavaria most royals during that time had 1/3 - 1/4 of their children die before they became teenagers, despite their parents being able to afford the best doctors, hygiene and food. They stlll died easily from what is considered "not dangerous" today like the flu, common cold etc. Now imagine these times and situations but one of your children was born with a mental disability, back then you'd often wish your disabled child to die a quick death because it will never be able to take care of itself, and in the dark and easy-to-die times back then you could simply not afford this nor did you want your disabled child to live disabled in such times. Today this is completly different. While i understand your comparison and what you're trying to say, it's a bad comparison, real refugees usually get asylum where i live, they also get free medical attention and help to start a job, business and of course a house if they're a family of refugees and want to stay, many don't want to stay but return to their country after it's safe. However the it turned out the majority of people claiming to be refugees the past few years turned out to be not from the country they claimed to come from, nor did they flee persecution or war, nor did they flee with their family but came alone. They simply came from a less wealthy country and wanted to come to a wealthier country to earn money and when they earned enough move back to the country they came from, and this is bad because even in wealthy countries we have countless of homeless people who were born here who need help, cant find a job and often live in horrible conditions. So when people who claim to be refugees fleeing from war come here and then they turn out to have lied, it makes the poor people born in that country angry, justifiably. Keep that in mind. However, real refugees fleeing from the war in Syria for example, especially families with children get the help they deserve here.
As someone who works in disability and mental health support, i really like to think these people knew atleast some kindness, warmth and perhaps even love at some stage. I also can't help but think that many of these people could have been treated with medicines/therapies we take for granted today..
Things like this are the reason I aspire to be a voice advocating for better care of mentally ill. They've always been screwed over and treated horrible for no reason other than existing, and it's honestly just sickening. It seems like you never see people trying to help out the situation either. They just whine about trigger warnings and safe spaces, never looking at the people that are actually being abused. I sincerely hope society wakes up soon, because these people need to be treated better. We owe it to them.
Sad video. I know many of these were abused beyond measure. Some were not crazy but made that way by their abuse. Thank GOD there is a great judgement where they will get justice. Very good music choice. It fits the video well.
@@randycarey7487 then do some research on the era these people were institutionalised, then you'll see how they were treated. A lot of the marks/scars/wounds on these people would have come from the "treatment" they had to endure.
I have a son with autism, who is currently taking meds for a squizofrenic patient, it really breaks my heart not been able to help him, i just tell him every single time i have, how much i love him and he is really special to me! Love his smile knowing that he knows mommy loves him !❤
@@georgesullivan4473 i agree with you but it really helps his brain to stabilized, he’s really aggressive and without them it’s really hard to mange with him, I try to feed him good and exercise , so he can be healthy, he’s a really happy boy and I try to give him a lot of water so his organism doesn’t get all the medicine just what he needs, nothing else has worked for him
@@karenpanana6131Don't listen to George Sullivan's advice Karen bc he's anti medication & always giving horrible advice to people. I believe he wants to do harm to others not to offer any helpful advice. I don't see a Drs license in his name or any proof of a degree that would give him any knowledge or authority to be stating his radically horrible harebrained advice to others.
This really makes me appreciate Mr. Rochester from the novel Jane Eyre. Instead of sending his insane wife who he was tricked to marry by his money-loving father he kept her in his manor's attic and had a nurse care for her instead. He didn't wanna send her to an asylum out of pity for her.
It's absolutely heartbreaking to see these photos :( Nothing was known about mental illness and how to help these poor people. They were fighting a battle inside themselves that no one could understand or help. Thank God medicine has made great strides in understanding and treating these "illnesses" . God Bless them all 🙏
horrible places. these poor people were so abused and degraded and some spent their whole lives there for little or no reason other than being different
N'otha chicka agreed! And sadly it's still going on today. Only today they say they have a chemical imbalance in order to justify their mistreatment. While the rest of the world carries on shopping. Truly Sad!
Scrotus Maximus l dont have the time tomorrow explain why iam so sad when i watch this pictures.i can only say i am a Person when i SAW old Photos from early time i starded to cry.this is what i feel INSIDE me...
The assumption is that all of these people have been abused, tortured and neglected simply by looking at a bunch of anonymous photos with no background? Sadly, we live in an era where emotional perception trumps reality. "They are going to judge this area the same way." I'll agree, there will be plenty to judge in this era, and it won't have to be based on random unknown photos.
I have not worked in psychiatric or mental health institutions but as a carer in geriatric care facing the challenges of elderly clients with varying degrees of dementia I have been challenged immensely and have learnt to treat all clients with respect and give them the dignity they deserve. Any kind of mental health issue deserves this attention.
What an affecting little video. I can almost feel their unhappiness to be honest by looking into their eyes. There's something almost familiar there, to me anyway. There but for the grace of god
@@Danimal77 Believe or don't believe whatever you want and mind your own business. Who made you the authority on all things GOD. This is a public forum and we can say whatever we want but that doesn't give anyone the right to be disrespectful to other human beings.
You can just see the how brokem they all are. And the stories their eyes tell, the sorrow..the emptiness...the desperation... heal their souls. I so dearly hope they have found peace after passing.
My nan got put into a mental asylum when she was younger.. she had a breakdown.. after her husband who was physically abusive for years came out of the navy, she moved away to be with him along with 4 children. She had no one around her for support and had 3 jobs to keep a roof over her head.. those times were hard and these places back then didn’t understand how to treat people properly. Really sad
Made me feel very sad.Lets hope they were treated with kindness.the girl at the end in the checked dress looks like a strong spirited character,very striking.
I know a girl now who she reminds me of,she's supposedly got global learning difficulties whatever that is ,but she is the brightest loveliest soul and goes to an amazing school that gives her fantastic experiences for learning. I am always amazed how wise and switched on she is in certain areas far more than most kids her age,but she has childlike joy of life which never fails to cheer me up and I suffer depression and anxiety.She is a tonic to the jaded,cynical world weary so called non handicapped people.
Emmy Lou you mean those broke moneyless born worthless people. Nothing has changed, it's all about who your friends are and how much money you come from.
These poor unfortunate souls What horrors mentally ill endured back then..Some may not have even belonged there but the treatments given made them even worse.. Some most likely only had depression ,Looks to me some with severe cases of syphilis were also committed ..No meds,.. only suffering May they all rest in a far better place.
Either we have asylums and people are tortured or not treated well or we don't and cops have to deal with all the mental illness and alot end up dead. We need a middle ground between all that which takes care of the mentally ill and provides them with a safe and comfortable enviornment and also keeps the public safe from them.
Not everyone who stayed at the asylum in those days had a mental disability. If a woman had a child out of wedlock, it would shame the family, so off to the asylum she goes. If parents decided they did not want their own children for one reason or another, off to the asylum they go. The Victorian age was a very hard age to live through. If a family didn't have the space or means to take care of Grandma, off to the asylum she goes...
Yes, some were committed unnecessarily... but there were many who did need to be institutionalized for their sake and societies safety. This is not the Victorian age, and we have overly strict rules and regulations on who can be committed. Unfortunately, most with severe mental illness are not committed, hence the mentally ill live in their own minds, who cannot hold down a job, who refuse to take their meds and who wander aimlessly, ending up on the streets, living a horrid life..and generally ending up arrested, being killed or dying young. We need a place for them. One with consistent treatment, nice accommodations and kind caregivers. Lacking better mental healthcare and long term institutions, we are seeing more and more horrific crimes committed by these people.
@@kmeccat Here n Ontario, one of our premiers vvlosed the long-term residences for the mentally ill and we see them in Ottawa on the streets raving to themselves. It is so sad. These people need a good home, caring efficient nurse and good food.
The books I've read on this subject are even more horrific than these photos... The unbelievable abuse and neglect of these poor people can really make your heart hurt!!!
There was NO medical or psychiatric help for patients of this time. Regular illnesses, such as epilepsy, would cause a person to be committed. Also, in that period of time, a husband could have his wife committed for no other reason other than he didn't want her anymore. I notice some of the photographs show pictures of the ill with sores and I see that some of these were caused by hellish attempts at "treatment". What were the other sores/wounds caused by?? Were they cancers or something else?? Anyone who knows, I would appreciate your knowledge. Over all this is a sad video. A lot of these people were victims.
@ Missditabomb - Exactly what RattusSwedicus said: it's very likely syphilis. When the virus gets to the late stages, it causes gnarly skin lesions and may result in damage to all the internal organs including the brain. Dementia, muscle discoordination, paralysis, blindness... things that (to the Victorian doctor's eye) would look very much like a person is "crazy," are all potential symptoms of late stage syphilis. So very sad. :(
lol...."well we don't know whats wrong with your daughter sir but well do everything we can to take your money I mean daughter in and make sure that she has no money left in her bank account before we start pulling from your account then if u cant pay for her treatment we will be sure to use her to the best of our abilities to test on and experiment until the day you notice and can prove what we are doing and after that we will just deny everything until u die and nobody says anything about it anymore and on to the next subject and by god if your daughter is found to be healthy just a little misunderstood we will make sure to make her think she is crazy and give her meds that will eventually make her as crazy as we want so we can learn from our mistakes on her and make money on the info we have gained from our experiments THANK YOUUUU! oh I see you have a newborn! (mr burns style) "excellent"
This is indeed really sad, as so many have written here. But I have to say, it makes me glad to see the vast majority of comments and replies be so empathetic, so aware of how these poor people were treated so terribly. It's just good to see love being expressed here through so many caring and heartfelt comments.
It's great how humans think we're so special that the one life we're given isn't good enough there's another life waiting that could be better (heaven) or worse (hell) and if we give our money to a church there'll be a special place for us up there with all the "thoughtful special spirits"go and a place down below we're all the "bad" spirits go Stay with me here Did you ever think just for a second that heaven or hell is what you make of life while your alive ? I know what about people that are born into fucked up circumstances but for the most part I think when you die your dead! That's why they call it death or better yet do you remember anything from the time Before you were born like the year before?
You are likely very young and subconsciously have no interest in the whole idea and concept of eternity because in you're own mind,like most atheists,you basically feel that you are existing in some perpetual state of time-stillness,as in,you feel you will never grow old and never have to be faced with the reality of mortality/mortalness. Therefore,you easily and conveniently write off the whole notion of ones eternal soul as merely fictatious and something to just simply mock/make fun of. The bible makes mention of such types/skeptics as basically being the weeds of humanity,for the lack of a better term i would surmise,and furthermore, Just there to try and get in the way of those who have seen clearly the signs of ones life being a continueous eternity through the means of ones eternal soul venturing through the temporal earth existence,and then eventually landing into the other side,as you could refer it as,and not necessarily a heaven or hell,but definately and definitevely another demensional/spiritual plane of existence,which is seperated from the former earth-body that that soul had temporarily inhabited. I myself am thoroughly reasurred of a continuous existence through my obviously very spiritually inclined dreams,as well as signs of interventional direction based thought throughout my awakened state of mind/being. Countless profound testemonials are also quite pronounced in validating the reality of ones life continueing after they're earth life has expired. One really has to have the personal signs given to them themselves to begin to truly believe this to be a highly plausible subject of interest and profound reawakened inner soul based realization.
Just remember these faces when you’re feeling depressed, lost, hopeless....carry the torch for these souls who never got to be heard. Yet, their pictures are just literally one frame of their lives. And, boy do they tell us a story.
God this is disgusting. Asylums were just a place to put the family embarrassments and turn them into lab rats. It's incredible how people can be so cruel and careless to another human being.
kyblaze who would it be an insult? I doubt this person has read a single piece of information on the daily protocols and procedures concerning mental health institutions prior to the modern era. They saw some pictures felt bad and posted a comment in an attempt to make them selves feel better. People were put in those institutions because their families were incapable of taking care of them. How is that any different than allowing excusing women to have abortions on he grounds that they could not care for their child? How is that any different from a nursing home? You haven't given any thoughts to your comments, neither did this dude it's easy to see. Also why are you laughing out loud?
VcCancerKill ! How have I not given thought to my comment? I genuinely couldn't tell if you were being a snarky jackass with your comment to me. I cannot say if this person doesn't know about asylums, that is not in question and should not be mentioned. I do not deny that some people were put in these asylums and really needed help. But I was referring to the ones who went in with a very minor issue and came out a vegetable or dead. I do not support abortion, it's as good as murder to me. You were irresponsible enough to conceive a child you don't want, so stand up and take responsibility or give it up for adoption. Nursing homes are for people who genuinely need help and cannot survive on their own. As I said before, these asylums were often storage for people who didn't want to deal with a moody relative. I was laughing because of the structure of your comment. It was worded oddly and I couln't understand it.
kyblaze your first comment is horse shit. You're whole argument that people committed people back then out of embarrassment is bullshit. There's no way for you to know that. Most did because they didn't understand and couldn't provide for their family members affected by certain disorders. You're literally just saying whatever you want and passing it off as fact.
I work in a residential home for adults with learning disabilities/difficulties I’m a support worker for the residents and my job is very rewarding I love very much and care a great deal for the residents we make their life as happy and comfortable as can be we listen to them and try to support them in society and fulfill what they want in life and it’s sad they couldn’t do this back then
I work with people with disabilities in residential care. Many residents do have families that they visit, some don’t have families. The staff there are like family to the residents. All our residents are well taken care. There are many outings that they attend. Our residents just got back from a trip to Niagara Falls.
Hopefully these individuals souls are at rest from whatever ailment they had. Such horrid conditions for people with mental conditions. Society didn't know how to take care of them or help them so they dumped them into these barbaric conditions. At least treatment facilities today are better. You couldn't have gotten any worse than 19th asylum care.
What? At least they had food and a roof over their heads. Now that these asylums have closed, people like these are roaming the streets, homeless, unaccounted for and neglected. Who knows exactly how much crime is being committed by them.
Nigel 900 not so much crime by them but against them. People are cruel. Some were like that because of horrible neglect and abuse in the first place. They cannot cope in a normal society and shouldn't have to if they can't. Shutting the facilities down like they have has been a disaster as you say they roam around causing problems. It happened when they shut the Adelaide one down.
Not arguing with you. There were many reasons for people being committed. We can't possibly know who was mistreated or neglected. No doubt there were many, but it was a different time, a time when these asylums had to work with the medicine and science they had. Much of America and Europe was rural and families just couldn't care for a disturbed or invalid child. Heartbreaking, but it was the reality. Thank god we live in a time and place where these people can be properly diagnosed and cared for. We have come a long way since then. Sorry to be so wordy.
Sad...I spent two months in an asylum, diagnosed as bipolar manic I was forced to take the meds but refused because they were addictive and caused liver damage, duringing a session the doctor called the police took me to another shrink who said I was fine but they made me sign myself in..it was horrible, my roommate tried to murder his mother, people threw trays of food at me and coffee simply because I held the door open for them or said good morning..I was sleep deprived since the nurses come in to your room every fifteen minutes to see it you're asleep..I would beg the nurses to leave me in the padded cell since there was no noise and i couldn't hear the moans of people crying , screaming or laughing maniacally..places like this are not to make people healthier .they are there to protect these people from themselves or the rest of society and keep them heavily medicated so they have no will to fight back.
These photos just bring me sadness. Families didn't know how to care for some, wanted to be rid of others. The burn marks on their heads were probably from shock thereapy. The sadness in their eyes, it's just so sad.
looks a lot like syphilis sores. It was a very common STD in that era and not treated in the same way it is now (although people still die of syphilis in some third world countries today). It causes lesions, nerve damage, and eventually insanity. Looks like a few of these poor souls had it.
@@BirdyMum That or maybe they picked at their selves? Mentally ill people sometimes will pull out their hair pick their skin. Also self mutilation is common when people are institutionalized, and they're not kept properly stimulated. :(
There was a treatment where doctor's would perform surgery on the brain and cut different connections in the brain tissue. Maybe this is a result of that where he wasnt given the right means to heal after his so called "treatment". Truly so sad to see people treated like this though.
@@cloudyskies7523 I once looked up old photos of syphilis patients and that man was one of them. So awful how people suffered before medical science got better. :'(
Really sad! I have bipolar disorder and I’m sure in the “ good old days” I would have been locked away in one of these horrid places that was essentially a jail where you lived out your life since no effective meds were available. You can really see the suffering in these people’s faces.
The saddest part of seeing this is knowing half of these people don’t belong here. Had they been born in a different era/time they wouldn’t have been. God bless all of you beautiful people and sorry for all the things you had to endure. May you find peace in the after life sweet angels ❤️🙏🏼
Phyllis Charpentier lmao this shit was decades ago. Considering the only thing remotely close to this today is shutter island the movie lmao, id say people learned.
Im glad my brothers and my grandpa didnt have to go through this yes they have mental illness more than half my family me and my father were blessed to be born normal however mental illness is in my eyes one of the saddest things that could happen to anyone
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I work in a mental institution and sadly today things are still bad. It is so sad that majority of residents have no visitors or family. When they pass away there is no one to notify often times. I have worked there long enough that I am quite close to many of the residents. You can't help but get close when your getting them out of bed in the morning, helping them to bath and pick out clothes for the day. Many have the same clothes they have had for decades. It's always appreciated when people donate clothing. I can honestly say now I love many of the residents like family. Doctors have them so heavily medicated so they are easier to control but the side effects of up to forty pills a day are awful. I have two older ladies i care for but their mind is that of a couple 7yr olds. They still belive in santa and the easter bunny so I take them in gifts and treats and they get so excited. Somedays i take a group of ladies and give them mini makeovers by putting on make up and doing their hair. Many of my co workers are great but some are mean and like having the authority over them. Im like a mama bear with her cubs sometimes though and if I see abuse i always report it.
I'm not surprised to hear majority of your colleagues are mean spirited. No one has the right to be a psychiatric nurse if they don't have empathy.
Bless people like you. We need you in this world. Thank goodness these people have someone to talk to. I also didn't know about the donating clothes thing so thank you for that idea.
Unfortunately your in the minority of staff who actually care...and that would be assuming your as compassionate as you proclaim in your post..it is possible isn't it that maybe you have greatly enhanced your niceness to your patients in order to feel less guilty?
Thank you for all that you do .❤
40 pills a day.. wtf kind of doctors work there? 10/2 halidol and ativan will knock a patient out all night. Geodon, etc. Not 40 pills. Usually with right combination of meds a patient can turn around pretty well or make progress within a week or 2. Yall got an issue having the patients take 40 pills a day.
These horrific images are a perfect example of humans "being afraid of what we don't understand." Very sad.
How so? They're photographs of people with mental illness. The photographers didn't put those looks on their faces. You call the pictures "horrific". Maybe you're the one who is afraid of what they don't understand.
Some of these people are violent and dangerous. They not only harm others, but themselves as well. If someone is yelling and screaming at strangers, understanding or not, we should be afraid.
Here goes another feminist 😂
@@TheBlueyedblond many of these people wouldn't have even been mentally unwell when they were placed in the institution. The amount of women far outweighed the amount of men, because they were put in there for silly things like PMS! (Edit, sent too soon). It is crazy (ironic) the stupid reasons people were institutionalised, do some googling, it's very interesting/sad.
@@Him.Me.Q.and.P yes I feel that one of shaved head girl might have goiter bulging eye, gentleman with nose scar might caught some infection.
So many of these individuals have, hauntingly sad eyes. Their sadness transcend all space and time. It were as if they were sat in front of me.
Heather Bystrzak my God !!!!!! What a perfectly said statement! That’s EXACTLY how I feel .... they could be here and now .. so so real ☹️
breaks my heart how people suffer back then up to now on our life time..we hmus human fights our own diff battlev
Some of them probably dont even have eyes which is even worse
Have you bin drinking again?
Living with schizophrenia I'm always thankful for the support and love I have given from all of my family and I never take it for granted
Norberto Milan here’s some more 💕 ❤️ 💗 and support :)
God Bless. Keep on showing people how you're a normal soul inflicted with a real thing.
Light Language has healed some people. Go to UA-cam channel named, I Am Manifest. Lee had a mental ill brother with the same illness has you. She has got him off the drugs for mental illness.
It's all in healing first four chaktas. Please give it a chance. 🙏Namasta.
@@kirarasmom4274 there is nothing wrong with taking meds for different types of MH diagnoses.sometimes it's a matter of correcting brain chemistry. The right medication has given people, hope, stability, clear thinking, the possibility of a reasonably normal life, hopefully outside of an institution, outside of a state hospital. Better quality psych meds, is the main reason, that so many state hospitals have closed. I doubt that there is much medical evidence to prove that New Age practices, can cure Schizophrenia. However the right meds can keep you stable, and improve the quality of your life, & probably keep you out of the hospital. After allwould you recommend that a diabetic go off their medication? I doubt it.
Pennsylvania has closed alot of state hospitals. Dont go off your meds please! Lots of patients relapse, due to going off their meds. They become suicidal, often aggressive, assualtive, psychotic,delusional, hallucinating, etc. They frequently commit crimes, or become a danger to themselves or others. When they do, they get involuntarily committed to the hospital, for the physical safety of themselves & others. For some mentally ill people, meds are as essential as food, water and air. They are a blessing from God. He can bring healing through many sources!!! Healing is from God, even if it comes through medication. There is no shame in taking medication.
I have panic disorder and depression, and I'm so thankful that I live in this day and age. Seeing these poor people, what they endured, breaks my heart.
Kari Solomon me too. 😔
dont be fooled that its any different today, its even worse, and will be catastrophic because these people are actually normal.....they can see the reality of life and are lost in an uncaring world
Kari Solomon I don’t have depression but I have a panic disorder and it awful 😖 I mean it’s contradicting to your brain you want to be some cause of your disorder then you’re afraid to be alone because of your disorder you feel shut out and alone it all while your hearts racing you feel like ok this is the end makes you feel like life not worth living this way but just know we have ppl who love us dearly and they are worth it bless your heart I take my meds everyday cause it’s a rough life to live without
Best of luck Katherine
Same i hate to think how these people were mistreated.
I'm glad to see that there are a goodly number of commenters who feel love and compassion for these unfortunate people.
Love heals the world.
Talk is cheap, anyone can sit behind a keyboard and say "I feel sad" then continue to do nothing about it..
@@swadey2.017 are you doing something about it?
@@idontcareidontcare901 Yes
@@swadey2.017 and what did you do?
These poor people..You can see the sadness and loneliness through their eyes..😓
Kate Moore I look like this Every. Damn. Day.
Victorians rarely smiled in photographs. But I see your point, they look lost and hopeless.
av3maria right..
Nothing is more Horrific than Reality...
True unfortunately...
Simon Robson which means we should step through our shadows and evolve.. not devolve..
These photos were their reality
These photos aren't part of reality? Ohhhhh the day when you realise the subtleties of the phrase 'perception is reality'!
Cancer Joke. Peado Joke.
Somehow this video and the music seems to give these poor forgotten souls a voice.
So sorry for this lost souls. I hope they found peace at least in afterlife💛
The ones with all the disfiguring sores have syphilis. Very common back then. Late stage causes insanity.
Kathy Edleman omg yes. I had forgotten about that. Abstinence is a safer bet 😨
Kathy Edleman
I thought it was from shock treatments. Maybe it's both.
Kathy Edleman i was wondering what was up with that. Thanks for the explanation.
thank you for the info! didn't even think of that.
Yes! I make jokes about women with no noses and people rarely get it. It’s a crack on the “my husband isn’t a cheater” thing from the Victorian era. Wives would lose their noses and that’s how they’d find out their husbands been playing the harp without her.
every time I see these it breaks my heart. my daughter Is disabled and I think, she'd be in there if it were 100 years ago. abuse, neglect, horrible treatment it's just beyond terrible. no one deserves that. I feel so for those poor souls that had to endure that. :'(
A hundred years ago, you may not have been able to care for your daughter. Most of these people weren’t just physically disabled, they were mentally unstable, dangerous, or even criminally insane. Life was no cake walk then, and people just didn’t have the ability or resources to give care.
She'd only be there if you put her there. I bet you wish every night you could
Exactly my feeling. My father and I watched a documentary on early 20th century ‘treatments’ and I started bawling. He asked me what was wrong and I told him that I was just realizing that if my mother had been born 50 years earlier that would have been her. (She is bipolar)
JacintaSeabrook LOOOOOOOOLLLLL HAHHAHAHHHA
Chad Thundercock I’m assuming you are a troll. If not, you sir, are a disgusting human being.
I've been in abandoned asylums a few times, as a self-proclaimed ghost Hunter, I can say the sorrow & sheer depression u feel from these people's wandering souls is almost impossible to ignore, even in death they're incomplete
Not at all..in death we will be complete in heaven but there are souls who initially are reluctant to move on and this is maybe what you were sensing
I believe horrible events, and tragedies have a tendency to become what's known as residual hauntings: these events cling to the area and play over and over again.
Makes ya’ want to go visit someone who is lonely
Every time I try to visit someone that's lonely, they demonstrate why they're lonely. Here in CA, everybody's so rude and fake.
Visit me
@@oceancat8725 Ok where
No
I wonder how many of theese poor souls were put there by their husbands, father s and relatives just because.......
Yes that was very common at the time. It was even common until a few decades ago.
Or by their mothers and sisters
@@PainfullyAware thanks for saying that, ALWAYS the men being blamed for that
A Crying shame when we say Ignorance is bliss I say no its that same Ignorance that.caide.Hate. Ward.Indiffernces we can all be sensitve nd.vunetalable at any given time TLC Right Support nd.meds.given if needed with care nd respect, like the commenter said with Dignity!!! What the world.needs love
@@79Rottie This shouldn't offend you. It's just a fact that fathers and husbands had more legal control and power over members of their family back then. Men were the heads of households and would be making these decisions.
They would place you here for things like depression, alcoholism, ect. To think how many could of been helped...but they were put thru all kinds of torture.......😢
Such sadness in their eyes, such despear. The little boy @2:39 killed me
Lisa Milito Holden if was only that... U could go to there cause u your husband accused u from cheatting or cause u didn't follow one stupid rule or cause u were homossexual... Sad world...
Lisa Milito Holden Women was put in for speak up for herself .wanting to be too independent. Liking SEX anything
Alice Figueiredo It's truly horrific what some people can do .....
Kaleah Collins Yes your correct, anything was a reason to be put there ...
I pray their souls are at heavenly peace in our lords arms. Such sadness behind their eyes. The little boy made me feel sad. And some of those poor ladies were probably suffering and grieving the loss of children or had postnatal depression and had to be separated from their poor babies. Breaks my heart R.I.P to all from that era who suffered x
Well unfortunately it's too late for them and gods phone's out of service, but maybe we can do something for these people this time around instead relying on imaginaries to help them since that's what's got us here in the first place, relying on fairy tales and gods and angels and other stupid made up shit to fix the worlds problems. Hearts are always in the right place but for some reason heads can never be found.
The sores on their faces lead me to believe they were prostitutes . You heard of syphlis? Leaves sores on faces.
drop the dead donkey google ‘what could put you in a mental institution 100yrs ago’ you’ll be surprised! Most were not rapists and murders, most were people who suffered physical and mental disabilities like Down syndrome, amputees, depression, autism, schizophrenia, ADHD. Homosexuality. Some were simple things like mild hysteria, a women who was suffering post natal depression, alcohol addiction, PTSD, a women who’s child had died, prostitutes... All these people were deemed unwell by societies standards and so were put into care, it was an easy way to ‘clean up’ the streets by locking away people who were different, who frightened ‘normal’ people.
Linz&Mike Barton amen, lets pray for them sister
bmx2026 I'm an atheist , but stfu, this person meant well. Your hateful comment wasn't necessary.
For every picture you see here, there are *hundreds of thousands* of other *human beings* who lived and died in institutions and today they'd be LUCKY to be remembered as a *number...*
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Marianne Leavitt:::: Yeah now they live on the streets of Major cities untreated.
You go California..
i remember a few years ago whe i was 13 or 14, i would have panic attacks every day before school, and sometimes durings and after school. i also dreaded sunday nights, cause all i could think about was going to school the next day. this was ongoing for 2 to 3 months.
to think that if had been born earlier or been born in a different country, this could've been me.
edit: im now 16 and doing so much better. i still suffer from panic attacks, but have them far less than before. (maybe once or twice a month)
you can see in their eyes they are asking for help
I noticed that also. It was sad to watch. The women had it the worst, rape, beatings, the ones supposed to help care for them, had to be the ill ones.
So deeply tragic these poor souls were tortured not only in their minds, but also by horrific treatments they received.
i really wish I could go back in time and give all of these poor sad lonely human beings a big big hug & a kiss. 😔
But what are you doing to help the same people now turned out onto the streets??? Hugs and kisses??? What nonsense you talk. Virtue signaling - fake "compassion".
You can't go back in time to save these people, but you can help all the people who are suffering right now, this very moment.
Unfortunately, people don't care about mental illness victims and victims of abuse until it's too late.
Judith Smith, you're just mad because you have no compassion, and no love in your heart...Life is pointless for you. Jessica Walker I feel you hun, I wish I could too.... And I always try to love on those who need it the most, even those who can be hateful. So I pray for you to know love and feel love Miss Judith...
@@judithsmith8014 yes everyone thinks that.... but it does nothing , and there you go....
@@aileenmooney8392 we arer all hypocrites
Heartbreaking. Injuries, illness, poverty, suffering. Just regular people, punished for being injured, sick, and poor.
War veterans suffering from deep emotional traumas were sent to asylums too
Sad to think that people with illnesses and disabilities were incarcerated. My Dad’s sister was put in an asylum when she was 3 years old, having suffered a couple of seizures, that was in 1948. Thank goodness we’re more knowledgable today
This is very sad. I took care of a very sweet old lady in the nursing home I worked at who was committed to an insane asylum by her family just because she loved a man her family didn't approve of. She endured medical experiments and electroshock therapy.
Weird to think that could happen. I had a great, great grandmother who was institutionalized. She was evaluated and found "crazy." My family has the papers. I wouldn't think loving a man your family doesn't like would count as crazy. Maybe the parents paid them to take her? Someone may have some explaining to do when they are standing in front of their Maker.
San Har does God excist
@@sanhar2075 Institutional types didn't need to be bribed. Anyone could be a suitable victim.
Back in the old days a person could get institutionalized for some of the most dumbest things. I remember hearing about a man who put his son in a mental institution just because he mispronounced the word spoon. The little boy said "poon" and his dumbass father thought he was crazy. The father should've been institutionalized for being so damn stupid. >:(
My great uncle was subjected to electroshock therapy when he was young because he was gay. They thought it would ‘straighten him out.’ Needless to say, he had a very cold relationship with his mother when she was alive. So sad
Watching this breaks my heart.Why is it so difficult for people to have compassion for others.
It's much more fun to feel superior. A modern version of this is the Homeowners Association. Sick? Disabled? Abandoned? No money? You're STILL RESPONSIBLE!!
You can see the pain in their eyes... heartbreaking💔
So sad 🙁
Living with scitzophrenia and Depression in the 21st century makes me feel so privileged , I didn't have to go through the torture of these poor people
RIP beautiful souls :(
I Can't Forget is a book that has left an impression in my heart and mind for a long time by Eloise Davenport and her experience in a mental institution. One of my aunts was ill and in a mental hospital when I was a child. The horror stories I would hear about her were horrible. She finally got out.
Can you plz tell me the book name
It's horrific what these poor people went through...Can you imagine ? I'm thankful for medical technology cause I suffer from depression.
Barbara Blansett God can heal anyone
not everyone believes in god...
ARMED SNOWFLAKE then the non believers can continue living in the motha fuckin hell they decided to live in by deciding not to believe.
redbutterflynine institutions run in the name of god , everything that is wrong with our world today ! Give thanks and praise to the new dawn of consciousness awaking .
no, the problem is people focusing on miniscule issues and when real issues arise, they sit on the sidelines helpless thinking/praying their god will come save them. why didnt god stop hitler? why hasnt god taken care of the leader of North Korea? why does god let children go hungry, homeless or get abused? there may be some great creator or something, but not one that cares what happens to humans or this planet, its our job to care but as a species we dont.
Sad,sad,sad. Just a place to put someone that was an embarrassment to the family.
Carol deCausmeaker The people were uncontrollable and would hurt themselves or others. A distant relative of mine was in an oil field accident. He had brain damage and was very dangerous. The family was told to put him in a mental institution. They wouldn't. They just kept dangerous items away from him. One day he bought an ax and killed the whole family.
Carol deCausmeaker ..I was thinking the same thing, plus.. it seems that anyone who was different, whether it be from birth or something like a burns accident or sickness was incarcerated, since they couldn't contribute and needed looking after... breaks my heart 😢 I believe the world today isn't too different, but it's refugees now 😐😦
in that time, a woman could be put in an asylum on her husband's wishes. they were abused and grossly neglected and even tortured. given lobotomies, electrical current "therapy" they didnt just have dangerous people in them..
Carol deCausmeaker I want a ham sandwich, and I want a ham sandwich.
+April Palmer
People cant look after everyone and the time back then were not as easy as they are today. Back then you could easily die of a cold, there was no "oh i feel bad i go to the doctor to get checked" and on top of it all, unlike today, people back then were not as wealthy and had to work much harder and longer than today. Also people back then would get much more children, not because they wanted many but because it was very common that a kid would die before it becomes a teenager, and yes that even happened in rich families. For example in Bavaria most royals during that time had 1/3 - 1/4 of their children die before they became teenagers, despite their parents being able to afford the best doctors, hygiene and food. They stlll died easily from what is considered "not dangerous" today like the flu, common cold etc.
Now imagine these times and situations but one of your children was born with a mental disability, back then you'd often wish your disabled child to die a quick death because it will never be able to take care of itself, and in the dark and easy-to-die times back then you could simply not afford this nor did you want your disabled child to live disabled in such times.
Today this is completly different.
While i understand your comparison and what you're trying to say, it's a bad comparison, real refugees usually get asylum where i live, they also get free medical attention and help to start a job, business and of course a house if they're a family of refugees and want to stay, many don't want to stay but return to their country after it's safe.
However the it turned out the majority of people claiming to be refugees the past few years turned out to be not from the country they claimed to come from, nor did they flee persecution or war, nor did they flee with their family but came alone. They simply came from a less wealthy country and wanted to come to a wealthier country to earn money and when they earned enough move back to the country they came from, and this is bad because even in wealthy countries we have countless of homeless people who were born here who need help, cant find a job and often live in horrible conditions. So when people who claim to be refugees fleeing from war come here and then they turn out to have lied, it makes the poor people born in that country angry, justifiably. Keep that in mind.
However, real refugees fleeing from the war in Syria for example, especially families with children get the help they deserve here.
I wish I could reach through time and give these people love and acceptance and hope!
Same
What do you do daily to help the ones suffering today...or was your Coment for likes....oh please..
Single mothers were also there for being morally insane.
Now that's insane! The people who thought/believed that to be right, needed to be institutionalized.
Marianne Ward that breaks my heart
As someone who works in disability and mental health support, i really like to think these people knew atleast some kindness, warmth and perhaps even love at some stage. I also can't help but think that many of these people could have been treated with medicines/therapies we take for granted today..
Things like this are the reason I aspire to be a voice advocating for better care of mentally ill. They've always been screwed over and treated horrible for no reason other than existing, and it's honestly just sickening. It seems like you never see people trying to help out the situation either. They just whine about trigger warnings and safe spaces, never looking at the people that are actually being abused. I sincerely hope society wakes up soon, because these people need to be treated better. We owe it to them.
Spooky Noodle Thank you for actually caring about mental health and awareness.
Thank you for speaking up against real atrocities and not supporting today's SJWs who only care about what bathroom people use.
Th-thank you....
I truly appreciate it.....
Amen to that ! Also some were locked up for being In debt . Something i have a feeling that that Demon in DC would like to revive .
Spooky Noodle AMEN
Sad video. I know many of these were abused beyond measure. Some were not crazy but made that way by their abuse. Thank GOD there is a great judgement where they will get justice.
Very good music choice. It fits the video well.
I'll remember this video next time I'm tempted to say something about "The Good Old Days."
A lot of these poor folks look like they're crazy because of harsh treatment.
Yes, I think even a completely sane and stable person would get crazy after some "therapy" used in the oh-so-romantic Victorian era.
@@randycarey7487 bruh
@@randycarey7487 then do some research on the era these people were institutionalised, then you'll see how they were treated. A lot of the marks/scars/wounds on these people would have come from the "treatment" they had to endure.
I can’t even imagine the horrible abuses these people may have suffered. So sad.
You can never truly understand anyone unless you experience their pain.
I have a son with autism, who is currently taking meds for a squizofrenic patient, it really breaks my heart not been able to help him, i just tell him every single time i have, how much i love him and he is really special to me! Love his smile knowing that he knows mommy loves him !❤
You need to get your son off those anti psychotic medication as they do more harm than good.
@@georgesullivan4473 i agree with you but it really helps his brain to stabilized, he’s really aggressive and without them it’s really hard to mange with him, I try to feed him good and exercise , so he can be healthy, he’s a really happy boy and I try to give him a lot of water so his organism doesn’t get all the medicine just what he needs, nothing else has worked for him
@@karenpanana6131Don't listen to George Sullivan's advice Karen bc he's anti medication & always giving horrible advice to people. I believe he wants to do harm to others not to offer any helpful advice. I don't see a Drs license in his name or any proof of a degree that would give him any knowledge or authority to be stating his radically horrible harebrained advice to others.
@@karenpanana6131God bless you & your son. You sound as if your a very good caring mom.
This really makes me appreciate Mr. Rochester from the novel Jane Eyre. Instead of sending his insane wife who he was tricked to marry by his money-loving father he kept her in his manor's attic and had a nurse care for her instead. He didn't wanna send her to an asylum out of pity for her.
This was sad :( but not gonna lie the dude at 2:43 looked cool af!!
He looks like the character from Don't starve
He looked like Richard Grieco
He looked almost like a famous music composer
Looks like Sid Vicious
He looks like Sid Vicious
It's absolutely heartbreaking to see these photos :( Nothing was known about mental illness and how to help these poor people. They were fighting a battle inside themselves that no one could understand or help. Thank God medicine has made great strides in understanding and treating these "illnesses" . God Bless them all 🙏
horrible places. these poor people were so abused and degraded and some spent their whole lives there for little or no reason other than being different
N'otha chicka agreed! And sadly it's still going on today. Only today they say they have a chemical imbalance in order to justify their mistreatment. While the rest of the world carries on shopping. Truly Sad!
im bad or carries on posting comments on UA-cam
Or pregnant! !!
Naa wakeup its not 'going.on.today' there is excellent provision for mental health in the first world. Things have changed dramatically.
@Glorious Bastard or they were pregnant!!!!! It's true.
This is really sad...😪😥😥😥😥
Tornado Unitas I feal the same way
Rahim EL-MullA iam Not sleepy.iam sad....
Rahim EL-MullA 😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪
Scrotus Maximus yes...
Scrotus Maximus l dont have the time tomorrow explain why iam so sad when i watch this pictures.i can only say i am a Person when i SAW old Photos from early time i starded to cry.this is what i feel INSIDE me...
Very sad but even in dark tormented places some still manage to smile
1:31 the sadness in her eyes really hit home
Most people just needed love, compassion, understanding and patience..... something a lot of us don't know how to give....
Sad how many go Unguided, many homeless. Sad sad. Some can’t be saved and that’s sick.
IN THE FUTURE. THEY ARE GOING TO JUDGE THIS ERA THE SAME WAY..
Stop it.
Nigel 900 But he's right?
So true! If we don’t all die in a nuclear explosion, in the future people are going to be especially shocked and sickened of our treatment of animals.
Thank you for your thoughts
The assumption is that all of these people have been abused, tortured and neglected simply by looking at a bunch of anonymous photos with no background? Sadly, we live in an era where emotional perception trumps reality. "They are going to judge this area the same way." I'll agree, there will be plenty to judge in this era, and it won't have to be based on random unknown photos.
My heart goes out to them. Depression, Alzheimer's, BiPolar.....all medical conditions. So sad. I'm glad we've moved forward.
Bless them all it breaks my heart, I hope they are at peace now x
I have not worked in psychiatric or mental health institutions but as a carer in geriatric care facing the challenges of elderly clients with varying degrees of dementia I have been challenged immensely and have learnt to treat all clients with respect and give them the dignity they deserve. Any kind of mental health issue deserves this attention.
Poor people. Inbelievable what they went through. All the suffering and sometimes abuse. Really sad.
Barbaric treatment was given to these poor Souls! 😢
What an affecting little video. I can almost feel their unhappiness to be honest by looking into their eyes. There's something almost familiar there, to me anyway. There but for the grace of god
....go I
There is no God. It's a fairytale your parents told you when you were young. When are you going to grow out of it?
@@Danimal77 Believe or don't believe whatever you want and mind your own business. Who made you the authority on all things GOD. This is a public forum and we can say whatever we want but that doesn't give anyone the right to be disrespectful to other human beings.
PRAETORIAN 994 g
Everyone of these people have a back round story...I wish we knew what each was...probably very sad.
You can just see the how brokem they all are. And the stories their eyes tell, the sorrow..the emptiness...the desperation... heal their souls. I so dearly hope they have found peace after passing.
My nan got put into a mental asylum when she was younger.. she had a breakdown.. after her husband who was physically abusive for years came out of the navy, she moved away to be with him along with 4 children. She had no one around her for support and had 3 jobs to keep a roof over her head.. those times were hard and these places back then didn’t understand how to treat people properly. Really sad
Made me feel very sad.Lets hope they were treated with kindness.the girl at the end in the checked dress looks like a strong spirited character,very striking.
Anya Tranter she stood out to me too! Wish we knew their names & stories
I know a girl now who she reminds me of,she's supposedly got global learning difficulties whatever that is ,but she is the brightest loveliest soul and goes to an amazing school that gives her fantastic experiences for learning. I am always amazed how wise and switched on she is in certain areas far more than most kids her age,but she has childlike joy of life which never fails to cheer me up and I suffer depression and anxiety.She is a tonic to the jaded,cynical world weary so called non handicapped people.
Her eyes are quite sad.
Humans can be incredibly cruel.
and stupid
Yes, so sad! 😢
I hate people!
I prefer animals!
Me Too!
Those POOR people!
Emmy Lou you mean those broke moneyless born worthless people. Nothing has changed, it's all about who your friends are and how much money you come from.
bmx2026 Yes. I know. Hence my comment. Sadly we still have them today. Nothing has changed.
Heart wrenching. Such cruelty (lobotomies), I am speechless.
These poor unfortunate souls What horrors mentally ill endured back then..Some may not have even belonged there but the treatments given made them even worse.. Some most likely only had depression ,Looks to me some with severe cases of syphilis were also committed ..No meds,.. only suffering May they all rest in a far better place.
could've been syphilis, self mutilation or both? :(
Either we have asylums and people are tortured or not treated well or we don't and cops have to deal with all the mental illness and alot end up dead. We need a middle ground between all that which takes care of the mentally ill and provides them with a safe and comfortable enviornment and also keeps the public safe from them.
Not everyone who stayed at the asylum in those days had a mental disability. If a woman had a child out of wedlock, it would shame the family, so off to the asylum she goes. If parents decided they did not want their own children for one reason or another, off to the asylum they go. The Victorian age was a very hard age to live through. If a family didn't have the space or means to take care of Grandma, off to the asylum she goes...
oh that sucks did you have to live through the victorian age?
Trever M chill
Yes, some were committed unnecessarily... but there were many who did need to be institutionalized for their sake and societies safety.
This is not the Victorian age, and we have overly strict rules and regulations on who can be committed.
Unfortunately, most with severe mental illness are not committed, hence the mentally ill live in their own minds, who cannot hold down a job, who refuse to take their meds and who wander aimlessly, ending up on the streets, living a horrid life..and generally ending up arrested, being killed or dying young.
We need a place for them. One with consistent treatment, nice accommodations and kind caregivers.
Lacking better mental healthcare and long term institutions, we are seeing more and more horrific crimes committed by these people.
@@kmeccat Here n Ontario, one of our premiers vvlosed the long-term residences for the mentally ill and we see them in Ottawa on the streets raving to themselves. It is so sad. These people need a good home, caring efficient nurse and good food.
The books I've read on this subject are even more horrific than these photos... The unbelievable abuse and neglect of these poor people can really make your heart hurt!!!
There was NO medical or psychiatric help for patients of this time. Regular illnesses, such as epilepsy, would cause a person to be committed. Also, in that period of time, a husband could have his wife committed for no other reason other than he didn't want her anymore. I notice some of the photographs show pictures of the ill with sores and I see that some of these were caused by hellish attempts at "treatment". What were the other sores/wounds caused by?? Were they cancers or something else?? Anyone who knows, I would appreciate your knowledge. Over all this is a sad video. A lot of these people were victims.
Those sores/wounds is probably syphilis , and syphilis attacks the brain / nerve system and heart in it´s final stages . . . .
@ Missditabomb - Exactly what RattusSwedicus said: it's very likely syphilis. When the virus gets to the late stages, it causes gnarly skin lesions and may result in damage to all the internal organs including the brain. Dementia, muscle discoordination, paralysis, blindness... things that (to the Victorian doctor's eye) would look very much like a person is "crazy," are all potential symptoms of late stage syphilis. So very sad. :(
lol...."well we don't know whats wrong with your daughter sir but well do everything we can to take your money I mean daughter in and make sure that she has no money left in her bank account before we start pulling from your account then if u cant pay for her treatment we will be sure to use her to the best of our abilities to test on and experiment until the day you notice and can prove what we are doing and after that we will just deny everything until u die and nobody says anything about it anymore and on to the next subject and by god if your daughter is found to be healthy just a little misunderstood we will make sure to make her think she is crazy and give her meds that will eventually make her as crazy as we want so we can learn from our mistakes on her and make money on the info we have gained from our experiments THANK YOUUUU! oh I see you have a newborn! (mr burns style) "excellent"
Hopefully all those people got the peace & happiness that they so rightfully deserved, after they passed away and are still at peace. :'(
This is indeed really sad, as so many have written here. But I have to say, it makes me glad to see the vast majority of comments and replies be so empathetic, so aware of how these poor people were treated so terribly. It's just good to see love being expressed here through so many caring and heartfelt comments.
These people are now living out in the streets of most major metropolitan cities.
Humans are so fucked up!!! Why? Oh why?!!!!!!😭😭😭😭
Why? because they truly reject God's Son Jesus, that is why.
It's great how humans think we're so special that the one life we're given isn't good enough there's another life waiting that could be better (heaven) or worse (hell) and if we give our money to a church there'll be a special place for us up there with all the "thoughtful special spirits"go and a place down below we're all the "bad" spirits go
Stay with me here
Did you ever think just for a second that heaven or hell is what you make of life while your alive ? I know what about people that are born into fucked up circumstances but for the most part I think when you die your dead! That's why they call it death or better yet do you remember anything from the time Before you were born like the year before?
You are likely very young and subconsciously have no interest in the whole idea and concept of eternity because in you're own mind,like most atheists,you basically feel that you are existing in some perpetual state of time-stillness,as in,you feel you will never grow old and never have to be faced with the reality of mortality/mortalness. Therefore,you easily and conveniently write off the whole notion of ones eternal soul as merely fictatious and something to just simply mock/make fun of.
The bible makes mention of such types/skeptics as basically being the weeds of humanity,for the lack of a better term i would surmise,and furthermore, Just there to try and get in the way of those who have seen clearly the signs of ones life being a continueous eternity through the means of ones eternal soul venturing through the temporal earth existence,and then eventually landing into the other side,as you could refer it as,and not necessarily a heaven or hell,but definately and definitevely another demensional/spiritual plane of existence,which is seperated from the former earth-body that that soul had temporarily inhabited.
I myself am thoroughly reasurred of a continuous existence through my obviously very spiritually inclined dreams,as well as signs of interventional direction based thought throughout my awakened state of mind/being. Countless profound testemonials are also quite pronounced in validating the reality of ones life continueing after they're earth life has expired. One really has to have the personal signs given to them themselves to begin to truly believe this to be a highly plausible subject of interest and profound reawakened inner soul based realization.
Heart breaking
Just remember these faces when you’re feeling depressed, lost, hopeless....carry the torch for these souls who never got to be heard. Yet, their pictures are just literally one frame of their lives. And, boy do they tell us a story.
Can't watch it without tears. I myself was only 2 months ago a patient too. Sometimes are patients these who should cure doctors...
So sad. One sad story behind the pictures. Poor souls.
ice fan fuck off
God this is disgusting. Asylums were just a place to put the family embarrassments and turn them into lab rats. It's incredible how people can be so cruel and careless to another human being.
kyblaze that's a gross oversimplification.
VcCancerKill !
I can't tell if that's support or an insult lol
kyblaze who would it be an insult?
I doubt this person has read a single piece of information on the daily protocols and procedures concerning mental health institutions prior to the modern era. They saw some pictures felt bad and posted a comment in an attempt to make them selves feel better.
People were put in those institutions because their families were incapable of taking care of them. How is that any different than allowing excusing women to have abortions on he grounds that they could not care for their child? How is that any different from a nursing home?
You haven't given any thoughts to your comments, neither did this dude it's easy to see.
Also why are you laughing out loud?
VcCancerKill !
How have I not given thought to my comment? I genuinely couldn't tell if you were being a snarky jackass with your comment to me. I cannot say if this person doesn't know about asylums, that is not in question and should not be mentioned.
I do not deny that some people were put in these asylums and really needed help. But I was referring to the ones who went in with a very minor issue and came out a vegetable or dead.
I do not support abortion, it's as good as murder to me. You were irresponsible enough to conceive a child you don't want, so stand up and take responsibility or give it up for adoption. Nursing homes are for people who genuinely need help and cannot survive on their own. As I said before, these asylums were often storage for people who didn't want to deal with a moody relative.
I was laughing because of the structure of your comment. It was worded oddly and I couln't understand it.
kyblaze your first comment is horse shit.
You're whole argument that people committed people back then out of embarrassment is bullshit. There's no way for you to know that. Most did because they didn't understand and couldn't provide for their family members affected by certain disorders.
You're literally just saying whatever you want and passing it off as fact.
So pitiful💔
I work in a residential home for adults with learning disabilities/difficulties I’m a support worker for the residents and my job is very rewarding I love very much and care a great deal for the residents we make their life as happy and comfortable as can be we listen to them and try to support them in society and fulfill what they want in life and it’s sad they couldn’t do this back then
No matter what issues these patients had the one thing I see in their eyes, is loneliness.
God rest their dear souls ..my heart breaks for them
God rest there souls...😢😢😢😢
So sad
Wonder if the elderly looking poor souls just had a dementia
I just wish I could have hugged tightly these people to show them love. My heart hurts for them.
I work with people with disabilities in residential care. Many residents do have families that they visit, some don’t have families. The staff there are like family to the residents. All our residents are well taken care. There are many outings that they attend. Our residents just got back from a trip to Niagara Falls.
Hopefully these individuals souls are at rest from whatever ailment they had. Such horrid conditions for people with mental conditions. Society didn't know how to take care of them or help them so they dumped them into these barbaric conditions. At least treatment facilities today are better. You couldn't have gotten any worse than 19th asylum care.
GeorgeLennon100 i can think of one thing worse than 19th century asylum care...
18th century asylum care
What? At least they had food and a roof over their heads. Now that these asylums have closed, people like these are roaming the streets, homeless, unaccounted for and neglected. Who knows exactly how much crime is being committed by them.
Nigel 900 not so much crime by them but against them. People are cruel. Some were like that because of horrible neglect and abuse in the first place. They cannot cope in a normal society and shouldn't have to if they can't. Shutting the facilities down like they have has been a disaster as you say they roam around causing problems. It happened when they shut the Adelaide one down.
Not arguing with you. There were many reasons for people being committed. We can't possibly know who was mistreated or neglected. No doubt there were many, but it was a different time, a time when these asylums had to work with the medicine and science they had. Much of America and Europe was rural and families just couldn't care for a disturbed or invalid child. Heartbreaking, but it was the reality. Thank god we live in a time and place where these people can be properly diagnosed and cared for. We have come a long way since then. Sorry to be so wordy.
Nigel 900 thanks to The Pill.
I can only imagine the barbaric medical procedures that were inflicted on them as "treatment"
Its very easy to project a 21st century understanding of knowledge and morality on to the 19th century.
No images of the staff..
The staff were probably scarey looking people. I've heard that they are usually typically naturally very scarey and extremely mean.
Jodyamn Purrier-killingbeck they are the staff
Sad...I spent two months in an asylum, diagnosed as bipolar manic I was forced to take the meds but refused because they were addictive and caused liver damage, duringing a session the doctor called the police took me to another shrink who said I was fine but they made me sign myself in..it was horrible, my roommate tried to murder his mother, people threw trays of food at me and coffee simply because I held the door open for them or said good morning..I was sleep deprived since the nurses come in to your room every fifteen minutes to see it you're asleep..I would beg the nurses to leave me in the padded cell since there was no noise and i couldn't hear the moans of people crying , screaming or laughing maniacally..places like this are not to make people healthier .they are there to protect these people from themselves or the rest of society and keep them heavily medicated so they have no will to fight back.
These photos just bring me sadness. Families didn't know how to care for some, wanted to be rid of others. The burn marks on their heads were probably from shock thereapy. The sadness in their eyes, it's just so sad.
So sad, trapped in a tomb of depression and anxiety.
Such horrific imagery there. That poor man with the open wounds on his head, you could see his skull! Was that an attempt at some form of treatment?
looks a lot like syphilis sores. It was a very common STD in that era and not treated in the same way it is now (although people still die of syphilis in some third world countries today). It causes lesions, nerve damage, and eventually insanity. Looks like a few of these poor souls had it.
@@BirdyMum That or maybe they picked at their selves? Mentally ill people sometimes will pull out their hair pick their skin. Also self mutilation is common when people are institutionalized, and they're not kept properly stimulated. :(
There was a treatment where doctor's would perform surgery on the brain and cut different connections in the brain tissue. Maybe this is a result of that where he wasnt given the right means to heal after his so called "treatment". Truly so sad to see people treated like this though.
@@cloudyskies7523 I once looked up old photos of syphilis patients and that man was one of them. So awful how people suffered before medical science got better. :'(
Really sad! I have bipolar disorder and I’m sure in the “ good old days” I would have been locked away in one of these horrid places that was essentially a jail where you lived out your life since no effective meds were available. You can really see the suffering in these people’s faces.
Watching footage like this makes all the worries you have turn into nothing...God bless them all
The saddest part of seeing this is knowing half of these people don’t belong here. Had they been born in a different era/time they wouldn’t have been. God bless all of you beautiful people and sorry for all the things you had to endure. May you find peace in the after life sweet angels ❤️🙏🏼
These photos are horrifying. When are we EVER GONNA LEARN?
Phyllis Charpentier im tell in u dear..humanity is a scary thing these poor souls were sick..not devils an drs treated them unreal..
Phyllis Charpentier we have made progress.
Phyllis Charpentier lmao this shit was decades ago. Considering the only thing remotely close to this today is shutter island the movie lmao, id say people learned.
Chris Benoit's Daycare bahahahaha classic username
Honestly I feel bad but i wouldn't have the patience.
2:43 what a great picture
I work with these people every day.
FourCatsGrace I hope they enjoy a better life with people like you. God bless you!
Thank you =)
FourCatsGrace i know who you are,you are romanian
So do I.
My brother used to work with them. He got hit by them on occasion. Be safe.
Im glad my brothers and my grandpa didnt have to go through this yes they have mental illness more than half my family me and my father were blessed to be born normal however mental illness is in my eyes one of the saddest things that could happen to anyone
Its heart breaking to see how these people were treated