Mental institutions of the early 19th - mid 20th century?

Check out Bedlam Insane Asylum in England, late twentieth century, I think--could be off with the time. This place was reknowned for the extreme abuse of the patients.

I don't know how they got there if they did not have problems to begin with. But the mental hospital in our town has been there for over one hundred years. I've been told that they have gone through a number of different methods to control patients and when one doesn't work they try another. They chained them up and treated them like animals a very long time ago. Then when medications came along that sedated them to a zombie like state they tried that. Now they use medications but still use shock therapy on some of them that do not respond to other things. I am just very grateful for my health even though I do have social anxiety disorder.

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