Asylums
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| Quinn Allman Salute You in Your Grave  Age: - Gender: - Posts: 3374 | |
| xXDr. KrazyXx Fabulous Killjoy  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 120 | I think strait jackets don't help an insane person whatsoever. However, they are insane so it is understandable. This doesn't justify the way they were treated. Treatment in asylums has gotten much better since then, though. They are treated more as people with an illness than trash. |
| druscilla. Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 36 Gender: Female Posts: 1671 | Straight jackets keep patients from hurting themselves and others, as ruby said. There's a point to it. It's not a random 'oh the nurses are bored so they're going to shove a random patient into a straight jacket'. |
| Thursday's Child Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 1324 | I personally think Aslyums are there to help patients, not hurt them. I use to be the opposite, watching the horror movies one too many times, feeling these people should make their own decisions... but lately, my views have changed... where I live, In Milwaukee, there's a serious problem dealing with mentally ill patients living on their own. After the 1970's Supreme Court decision, it resulted gave mentally ill patients more due process rights, but also in a lot of asylums to be shut down....less patients were qualified for commitment to the Aslyums, therefore less of a need for them. And now, they're living on their own... and the problem arises; where do they go? how do one insure they recieve treatment they need? and currently, that problem is being solved by illegal homes because it's the cheapest and easiest option for the social workers The mentall ill are living under horrible conditions: houses with out heatt in the winter, air conditioning in the summer, no food, severe over crowding in small spaces, no one is checking in on them, they're dying and not being discovered until days later... so basically, that's my long answer to why I think asylums are helpful. They've improved conditions from the horros of the 1800s. They're there to help the patients, not only from society but themselves... People with cetain mental disorders can not help and care for themselves and unfortunately, we live in a society where not everyone is going to help them in the real world....that's what asylums are for to help these people live a healthy, safe life. plus, if mistreatment is occuring in a asylum I'm sure that would be easier to not only catch, but deal with and correct than if the police would have to track down not only the location of the illegal home, but whoever is running it and any other illegal homes that they manage... Edit: I just like to add this to my previous post, if that's alright with ya'll: someone one said, on this topic, that "we shouldn't be tearing the asylums down, but simply taking the locks off the doors," and I completely agree. Make them avialable. Don't make them mandatory |
| abeautifuldisaster Killjoy Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 39 | i have a teacher who was telling us about how maybe like 10 or so years ago, she and her students would volenteer in the mental health facilities. she says that they are nonthing like they used to be. authorities finally got the right idea about how special needs people should be treated. which in my opinion is a wonderful thing. |
| masquerage Killjoy Age: 32 Gender: Male Posts: 39 | i think asylums are fine. i mean its better than just putting crazy people to death isnt it? |
| lexie Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 54 Gender: Female Posts: 1077 | well i know how you feel though - my parents are both in Psychiatry and when I was younger I saw 'One flew over the Cuckoos Nest' and didnt speak to them for days! But when I was older I helped in and around the wards and aslo ended up in one for 2 weeks when I brokedown and I can honestly say that things really have changed! My brother is in Psychiatry as well now so as you can see I would let you know if I thought for one minute that the wards were inhumane or draconian. It was horrible how they USED to be dont get me wrong but that was in the old days when people had a different attitude to Mental Health. |
| Golden Cat Thinking Happy Thoughts  Age: 29 Gender: Female Posts: 503 | 1. Should these poor people be abused like they are? No, that sounds really horrible.. 2. Should they be treated with medicine, and all the help needed or should they be left to fend for themselves. I think if they have a medicine they should take it.. Why not? 3. Are straight jackets good or bad? I think they're good, I mean, what if the person wanted to kill you..? |
| abeautifuldisaster Killjoy Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 39 | lexie: i agree with you about that movie...."One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest." It is really sad. sadly, it gives a bad impression to modern-day mental health facilities. |
| broken. Jazz Hands  Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 253 | I think they're fine but yeah, a lot of patients get mistreated. Maybe not HORRIBLe like in one flew over the cuckoo's nest, but it can be a little rude/unnecessary. Better than letting them just die rite? |
| Beeblebrox Really Not Okay  Age: 44 Gender: Female Posts: 688 | Speaking from experience.... I've been institutionalized four times at three separate hospital psychiatric wards. The first was physically abusive, Charter Hospital, back in 1992. Doctors there were very physical and I was bruised heavily from their use of unnecessary force. Fortunately, word got out and Charter got sued. All the patients were transferred to better places. The other two places were horrible, frightening experiences that haunt me until this day. But neither were abusive. I was physically restrained by a team of doctors, I was tied to a bed with cuffs, I was given multiple shots of tranquelizers and force fed anti-depressants. I was even locked in an empty, non-padded cell for two days. But everything was within humane standards. I was never abused physically at these two places (although I did a fair amount of damage to myself pounding on the walls like an idiot). I was always given food, water, pillow, etc when I needed it. I was released upon my 18th birthday, a legal technicality I was happy to discover. For the best portrayel of what a psych ward or mental asylum really is, watch the movie "Girl, Interrupted." That's exactly what it was like. |
| don't aim to please. Banned Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 1543 | 1. No, nobody should be abused. 2. If meds are what they need, then that's what they should get. 3. If straight jackets are what they need, then straight jackets are what they should get |
| Oxycontin Genocide. Banned  Age: 29 Gender: Male Posts: 2955 | Ooooh! I did a report on Nelly Bly. Her real name was Elizabeth Cochran(sp?).[/spam] Anyway, I think the people are treated badly at asylums because the employees know that no one would care about them and that no one would believe an insane person if they said the assylum is beating them. I personally have never been to an insane assylum, so go ahead and ignore my post.... |
| lacey;; Always Born a Crime  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 5698 | ...oh, good God ...i fear asylums...i don't like those poor people being victimized by tortures (in the early times) and being treated worse than trash... ...i feel like i'm having a heart attack...oh.....i can't breathe again...  ...awww...i'm such a coward. |
| the used. In The Murder Scene  Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 22515 | Before I moved, I lived right next to an asylum for nearly four years. I really understood why the people lived there. They didn't have any other place to go, because they had suffered so much during their lives. They needed a shelter, and the asylums became their cover... __________________________________________ The world is so fucked up, did you know that ? |
| IXPROMISE Jazz Hands  Age: 30 Gender: Male Posts: 360 | idk |
| druscilla. Bleeding on the Floor Age: 36 Gender: Female Posts: 1671 | REVENGEXHASXJUSTXWON: That's lovely. Tell him he's wrong. Thousands of people have mental problems. Most of the people I know would have been killed according to that point of view. I would have been killed. They're there to help people. And not all people who are crazy will never benefit in society. "Crazy People Who Will Never Benefit in Society" Isaac Newton Beethoven abraham Lincoln Vincent van Gogh Winston Churchill Virginia Woolf Shaun Colvin Carrie Fisher Brooke Shields Charles Dickens Michelangelo Sylvia Plath Ernest Hemingway |
| porcelain-star Fabulous Killjoy Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 128 | i dont think straightjackets are good. they're just degrading, and really not necessary. People in asylums should be treated fairly and well, after all they are there because they can't look aftre themselves. They should be treated with respect and care after all they are humans too. |
| lacey;; Always Born a Crime Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 5698 | yeah...that's right! they are human beings after all...now it would be interesting if other people treating those who are in asylums bad get into the poor ones' shoes... |
| druscilla. Bleeding on the Floor Age: 36 Gender: Female Posts: 1671 | TheWildRose: Sometimes straight jackets are necessary to protect the other patients as well. They are necessary if the patient is physically harming themself or others. |
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