Obviously they werent treated well, they were getting a newly developed procedure, ECT, or electro shock therapy, prety much. Patients were being injected with malaria to try to 'shock' the disease out of them. In other words, without the drugs that had not yet been developed, the people were being treated terribly, caged in shelters and forced to take treatment that honestly did very little to nothing.
The perceptions of mental health were far different in that time, and mentally ill people who were high functioning (able to hold a job, take care of themselves, etc.) often hid their condition or feelings from those around them. Those who suffered from more serious mental disorders such as psychosis were often committed into asylums for the insane and were treated with ineffective and dangerous medicines, along with surgery such as a lobotomy.
they are ill
They only detain mentally ill people when they pose an immediate threat to themselves or to others.
Most of the mentally ill people were killed in the holocaust. They simply were not kept. That was the "Final Solution."
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no
Actually, the incidence of mentally ill people becoming violent are about the same as the incidence in the general population.
yes
The only way to prove to others that anyone is mentally ill is to have that person examined by qualified medical people. Sometimes they will confirm your belief that the person is mentally ill, but sometimes they will tell you that you are wrong.
Apparently, he generally referred to the mentally retarded and mentally ill as 'those who eat their own feces', despite the fact that it was tactfully pointed out to him that very, very few mentally ill people do this.
i hope so
Mentally ill people may have a difficult time relating to people but some can have mostly a pretty normal life. People will make fun of them but they have to learn not to care.
Mentally ill or depressed patient?"