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I've worked with the mentally ill at a facility in my area for about 14 years and I'll be honest some people still think or try to do messed up "treatments" these days reading about some of it makes me glad I'm not in a room alone with them. Though stressful at times it's still a fun job and it makes me happy knowing I've helped some become independent enough to live with minimal to no assistance once they leave.
In the seventh grade, a teacher committed suicide and a few months later a student did as well. The question of why came up a lot and the faculty of the school wasn't really allowed to talk about either death with the students. So when I got an assignment to write a paper that I was supposed to give in Engish class... Speech is more like it, I chose the subject of the history of mental help. This was the 70s, so everything had to be found in the library and nothing involving the subject was nice. All of it was horror stacked on horror. Everything from what used to be popular to Rosemary Kennedy, which was still a scandal even then. My conclusion, as a seventh-grader, was if you have problems it's safer and easier to kill yourself than show or tell anyone you are having problems and that was why a teacher and a student died. My conclusion was NOT popular and I got in a lot of trouble for that conclusion, as well as got an F for the assignment. Fortunately, times have improved in the fields of mental illness, unfortunately, the mentality of society has not. The word "Crazy" is treated with as much care now as it was then.
This is heartbreaking. So much human suffering through the centuries.
As a Psychology major, I was excited to watch this video as soon as I saw the title. As sad as these old insane asylums are, they are extremely fascinating to hear or read about.
It is still mind boggling how we treated people in the past. To torture and experiment on them like they did is heartbreaking.
I was institutionalized a few years ago for constant anxiety attacks and let me tell you, a lot has changed yes, but people in there are treated very poorly. These places are so dull and unhappy its like they're trying to keep you ill, your pretty much a prisoner, my mom came to visit me everyday and they would only let her stay strictly for 20 minutes. They had given me some sleeping pills and I started feeling ill, I knocked on the office door several times and they were looking directly at me and still chose to ignore me, it was because of a guy that was changing pillow sheets that he helped me finally get a nurse to come out, I told them how I felt and gave me a benadryl. They just want you knocked out and zombefied to not deal with you. In the morning, just a few hours later they gave me some other pill, I couldn't take it anymore and called my mom crying to come pick me up, she had to fight for 3 hours to get me out of there and the doctor was telling her that I might kill myself.
As a mental health patient myself, with anxiety and bipolar disorders, I'm really grateful that I'm alive in the "here and now" and not the "there and then"...
In a recent 'debate' over the novel, 'Jane Eyre', some thought it monstrously cruel that Mr. Rochester kept his 'mad' wife locked in an upstairs room, with a woman hired to care for her. I thought, considering the alternatives - such as Bedlam - that he was being compassionate.
The most outrageous part of the "low cure rate" at Bedlam is (from what I've heard) that many of it's "patients" weren't mentally ill at all - several were prisoners without trial. A disobedient or inconvenient wife could easily be committed, people with scandalous habits such as drinking or speaking their thoughts, or those who knew the crimes of officials - if you had money or influence, you could pack your pesky relative or rival off to Bedlam. Even those with actual illnesses or simply different abilities (deaf, autistic, slow, etc.) could be sent there and be at the mercy of the criminally insane/staff. My information could be wrong - I certainly can't cite sources - but this is the impression I have of historical asylums.
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I myself have a mental illness called schizoaffective disorder and have been hospitalized twice. Even though the last time was a mere 30 years ago, the conditions of the hospital then were horrible. I cannot imagine the suffering of people in the 12th and 13th centuries. Even today, the stigma attached to mental illness is horrible. People blame the heinous acts that others commit on mental illness when that's not the cause at all. It's still tough today.
As someone with more than my share of mental health issues, I'm glad I live in an age where there's a better understanding of mental illness. There's still a lot to learn, but we've come so far and, OMG am I grateful for that. 😅
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Bedlam wasn't the only insane asylum to allow guided tours. The same thing happened at the Pennsylvania State Hospital in Philadelphia, which was started around the middle of the 18th Century for the purpose of providing free medical care for those who couldn't afford it. Incidentally, one of the prominent Philadelphia citizens who helped to finance the building of the hospital was Benjamin Franklin.
Whilst I agree the horrendous practices should be left to the past, they should not be forgotten. History has a habit of repeating itself when forgotten.
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I'm a retired clinical psychologist. The history of mental illness is a long, shocking and tragic one. The Doctors Tuke, there were several of them from the same Quaker family in the 19th century, were instrumental in the humane treatment of people with mental illnesses. Psychiatric drugs became the breakthrough in treatment in 1940s and 1950s. When I started working 50 years ago, there were still many elderly people who had been put in psychiatric hospitals because they were gay or had illegimate babies in their youth.
As an Australian born in the UK, but migrating at the age of seven, I had always assumed that everyone knew the origin of the world ‘bedlam’. It had simply never occurred to me that it wasn’t common knowledge.
A dude I grew up with was sectioned at Bethlem, he told me about his wild dreams and weird figures he would see in reflections while there and hadn't seen since o.O