how were the mentally ill being treated in mental hospitals backkk then?

The old mental institutions were like jails. It was not uncommon to chain patients to the walls or tie them to a bed in leather restraints. Common treatments included electroshock therapy, insulin shock therapy, and wrapping patients tightly in sheets that were saturated with ice water.

Though it seems inhumane, put it in context of no drugs to treat the underlying mental disorders that sometimes caused uncontrollable violent behavior. The mental hospitals were seriously overcrowded until the introduction of Thorazine in the 50s. That is when outpatient mental health first became possible.

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During the 1920's there was a movement to take the mentally ill out of the prison's and place them in a hospital to learn crafts,arts, etc. The patients actually thrived but the instituitions were abused by the general public that dropped off anyone they did not want to deal with. including the elderly, the staff population and funding did not increase even though the patients did. From that point on the hospitals resorted back to restraints,shock treatment,ice baths, and lobotomies

terribly.... I worked in a group home for developmentally disabled people around the time when all the state hospitals were closing and sending patients to smaller group homes. All of them were doped beyond oblivion just so they wouldn't have "behaviors." When the local docs started weaning them off the meds, we discovered that they had amazing personalities although some of them had behaviors. It was a shame that some of these people spent from very young ages up to seventy years old institutionalized and drugged and restrained, and that we as a society allowed it for so long.

Also, the old state hospital here had a tunnel leading up from the river and there were rings in the ceiling and floor where they would tie up the patients. Soo Sad

Back when? The mentally ill have always been discriminated against. In Bethlehem Memorial Hospital, they were treated like circus entertainment.

particular, somewhat no longer on the instant. I did have some extremely extensive matters mutually as i grew to grow to be into youthful. And, from extra suitable or much less the time i grew to grow to be into 4 until eventually i grew to grow to be into approximately seven or so--for 3 years--i grew to grow to be into restricted particularly lots consistently to a "abode for disturbed boys" that grew to grow to be into in fact a medium-guard practices psych ward. one among my roommates grew to grow to be into an remarkable-to-goodness pyromaniac. yet yet another grew to grow to be into heavily autistic and distributors to intense self-harm--sufficient so as that he mandatory to sleep in boxing gloves and a crash helmet. The boy grew to grow to be into all of 5 years previous on the time. And particular, i'm wide awake that a minimum of in some aspects of the worldwide, that matters have replaced. more desirable, or a minimum of grow to be much less suited to the lockdown. Rationally, i comprehend this. Emotionally? one among my earliest ideas is of being locked in. desirous to bypass to the washing room at nighttime, and having to ask an armed shelter for permission to bypass pee. So yeah. it somewhat is taken under consideration one of those matters. i ought to heavily _Use_ intense help for my melancholy, yet going to the ER and locking myself up? no longer happening. i'm no longer a criminal. Being in a cage will no longer be able to assist--at best i flow to in consumer-friendly words get dumped each and each week or so later and stranded with one extra suitable substantial _bill_, you comprehend?

They weren't treated, they were housed and experimented on.

They were abused ruthlessly.