1950s TREATMENT OF THE MENTALLY ILL MOVIE COLUMBUS STATE HOSPITAL " CITY OF THE SICK " 89534

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Created at the Columbus State Hospital in the 1950s, “City of the Sick” is a documentary about mental illness and the hospital itself, narrated by a fictional hospital attendant (Ken Kesey he's not). According to the narration, one of every twenty people in the city would suffer from a mental illness in this era. According to Professor Robert Wagner, who helped create the film, it was actually intended for new attendants and "was both instructional and motivational. We tried to establish how mental patients behave and how an attendant should react to what went on inside the hospital as an introduction to his work."
Hydrotherapy is seen at the 15 minute mark, and electroshock therapy seen at 15:20.
Columbus State Hospital first opened in 1838 and was originally known as the "Lunatic Asylum of Ohio". After a fire devastated the original asylum in 1868, the Ohio Legislature authorized reconstruction of the institution on a different tract of land. An immense Kirkbride building was completed in 1877. Construction took seven years and the total cost was over $1,500,000.
The building was very similar in appearance to the Athens State Hospital Kirkbride, although it was significantly larger. The distance around the foundation was reportedly one and a quarter miles in length. The building was designed to accommodate 850 patients-well over Dr. Kirkbride's prescribed 250 patient limit and still greater than the more generous AMSAII recommendation of 600 patients.
The institution closed in the late 1980s. Unfortunately, attempts at preservation failed and the Kirkbride was razed in 1991. The Ohio Department of Public Safety and Department of Transportation now call the former asylum grounds home, sharing them with four remaining hospital cemeteries.
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[@drott150]

All these inmates are pooping on the streets of San Francisco now.

[@stadtrade102]

If your going to San Francisco, be sure to bring some toilet paper if you care.

[@drott150]

@@stadtrade102 I'm not going to Frisco and I don't care.

[@christinefilas9392]

Appropriate, the land of fruits and nuts.

[@Abbyburnswatson]

For everyone saying we need places like these back, be glad you don’t know what they were truly like inside. Similar places do still exist they are just on a smaller scale and kept quiet so no one knows they are there. I lived in one for 8 months when I was 16-17 and it was hell on earth. Places like these are filled with emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, as well as neglect. They are never fully staffed so there is one person in charge of keeping 15+ mentally I’ll people in control at once, needless to say it easily goes south. Treatment is scarce, I once went over a month without therapy. Everyone I know who has been to any sort of institution has come out with more trauma than they came in with. Look up Breaking Code Silence if you want to see why we should never bring these back, for the sake of everyone. I understand that homelessness is high among the mentally Ill population, but institutions like these are not the answer.

[@catherineblair550]

They are looking at places like in this documentary but places like in this documentary NEVER existed.

[@shimmer8289]

Agree that was a propaganda film. Right up to the 70s and 80s abuses were a routine. The orderlys were often drunkards and abusive to the patients. This us a glossy bs film

[@katday6436]

Agreed!

[@est6464]

It's unfortunate we do not have intuitions to care for the mentally ill. So many end up on the streets.

[@jamesbennett5587]

We do , although they do really help. There's state hospitals across the country

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Please take a tour prior to pontifacation.

[@jaylockwood5030]

@@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe you'd rather they be on the streets.

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

@@jaylockwood5030 They who?

[@MitzvosGolem1]

today these people are still abandoned and ignored in often in prisons . Sad failure of society...

[@AntonDogg]

People frown on electric shock, and I get it, but it changed my mentally ill grandfather's life for the better. He went from manic and suicidal to fully functioing and starting a successful business at 45. Said it was the best thing he ever did.

[@Ivy.Huesmann]

they still do it for treatment resistant depression and psychosis, still helps many ! better to try something that may not work than be dead

[@spinb]

We need to re-open the Mental Hospitals and build more of them. Too many insane people on the streets.

[@UncleBearski]

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[@martincvitkovich724]

You can recognize them easily, they join ANTIFA and carry Black Lives Matter signs and call White people "Racist". When they aren't burning down cities , they are dying their hair blue

[@chrisfuller1268]

We need to bring back state hospitals. They were created for the same reasons we needed them in the past. These types of people are all homeless now.

[@briangray5921]

damn right

[@jagboy69]

You mean to tell me when a man thinks it's a woman isn't normal???? Who'd a thunk it? lol... You are right, we do need mental hospitals brought back. Being told this insanity is normal is not how we help people. Cutting off body parts is not the solution. And now they wanna push this on our children? God help us!

[@jagboy69]

Hey Chris, you wanna see something funny... Log out of YT, then return back here and read your post. Notice my comment is missing??? Welcome to shadow banning and I'm the target! The ministry of truth is alive and well. These people forget we get emails of comments made.

[@robderham1958]

Absolutely!

[@buriedtoodeep1508]

..so it maybe was all about real estate, in this world & the next..

[@michaelsteele4587]

We NEED these facilities like no other more than ever right now. We closed like 90% of these hospitals in favor of throwing them out on the streets or in prisons. In turn, we have a MAJOR problem with homelessness and over crowded prison systems and 99% of these folks are struggling with untreated mental illness, drug abuse or both.

[@shiloh2441]

I agree.

[@harryjvoughtiii9835]

Watch heraldo Rivera exposure story on the Penn Hurst mental hospital and other true stories and then you will understand WHY they were forced to close... Worse than HELL...

[@Eldraug]

Universal Healthcare would help too.

[@JeremiahArt65]

@@Eldraugexactly

[@whereswaldo5740]

You can blame President Reagan. He closed them.

[@genem3785]

When I was a kid, I got in a fight. The doctor asked me question after question, got me so scrambled up. The next thing you know, I was shanghai'd upstate to a nitwit school!

[@drott150]

In fairness, with a name like yours, it's understandable.

[@agems56]

In all fairness, you are the Moron, his name is Moran

[@RSSIPPEL.ART.]

There's no way that, the orderly weighed 200lbs. That dude was at least 250.

[@albear972]

It’s 200 1950’s pounds. 🤣

[@johnp139]

He was 200 lbs when he first started.

[@bobjacobson858]

Maybe he was bloated during the film.

[@WindTurbineSyndrome]

200lbs 6'3"

[@RSSIPPEL.ART.]

@@WindTurbineSyndrome You must be fairly thin.?

[@pedalingthru2719]

I had a uncle who was committed to Columbus state. . He spent 13 years in there because he was gay.

[@echofoxtrot2.051]

Omg 😲

[@drott150]

What a crime. If he had been born a few decades later, he would have been able to give drag time story hour to little children at the local library.

[@finoladerwin389]

Thank god it doesn't happen now

[@Eldraug]

​@@drott150Not all gay men do drag. Grow up.

[@jasong428]

Please bring back facilities of this nature. Jobs and treatment for those that need both. Stop outsourcing services to such institutions and teach self-sufficient trades to the patients.

[@whatithinkabout]

Unfortunately, we already have them. In Florida you can be legally kidnapped at any time and put in one against your will, without good cause, and without a hearing. They call it being "Baker Acted". A quick web search of "Tampa Bay Times" and "You're trapped, they're cashing in" should turn it up. For more stories "Baker Act Abuse". ...and they didn't help the homeless even a little.

[@xz3693]

You have no understanding of how mental health works in this country

[@jasong428]

@@xz3693 All western healthcare now has to be an outsourced product, sure.

[@finoladerwin389]

I am moving to Doncaster and under Doncaster social care l will be able to work and live on my own with a bit of help when l need it. 8 have mental health

[@Eldraug]

Look up Pennhurst. If you still think these places are good, you're sick.

[@JasonMartin915]

I work at the Evansville State Hospital, it's amazing that though some of the treatment methods have changed over the years, the basics of mental health care are still the same 😊

[@stonerman15]

I think we need these hospitals back!

[@tiffanye9403]

O God no this is glorified crap look up 70s children mental hospital. What this era made.. these people where locked up tied up and doped until they died. Where research animals with the deadliest drugs. Do your research

[@tiffanye9403]

Children of darkness documentary

[@macka1815]

For the homeless

[@jamesbennett5587]

They're still here lol

[@JasonMartin915]

​@@tiffanye9403that's a good documentary

[@Mark_Ocain]

"All you two-bit psychiatrists - give you electric shock..."

[@sargentsakto9236]

Love the old buildings. A high school friends mom worked at one such “hospital” from the 50’s to the 70’s when they closed it down. I remember visiting many times. There was one old woman there who had liberty to walk around the grounds. They warned everyone visiting to be sure to lock your car because she would turn your headlights on and sit in front of the car and talk to the lights until your battery died. Other than that she seemed sort of normal.

[@drott150]

So basically she was a democrat that identified as a headlamp. Too bad she wasn't born a few decades later, she'd be a blue state senator today.

[@bobjacobson858]

@@drott150 ...or maybe become president!

[@SpeedTrialsMusic541]

idiot

[@lauriewarner4848]

There once was a hospital in California in the city of Camarillo. Growing up I was scared of such places. Now as an adult I did a little research on it. It was an amazing place. When president Ragan was elected he shut it down. All patients were released or placed in other hospitals. It is now an extreme problem. What is wrong with our government. Take a look at this hospitals history…it was a well run, sufficient, place where orderly’s when to school and became Drs. WHY DO WE NOT HAVE PLACES LIKE THIS NOW IS BEYOND ME!

[@Squirrellynutz]

Doors have to be locked not only for the protection of the patients, but also the protection of the public. These mental hospitals are needed now more than ever with the plague of mentally I’ll people living on the streets of nearly every city in America. I don’t know why they were shut down back in the 1980s. Perhaps the government wanted to use the money for something else. Regardless, the shutdown has made our streets more dangerous & dirty.

[@cathyhopf6532]

could you imagine if there was a fire (all doors locked)

[@Simple_But_Expensive]

The mental hospitals were shut down for 2 reasons. 1) President Reagan shifted the cost from the federal government to the states, who refused to pay for it. 2) Too many cases of abuses such as rapes (both male and female), beatings, and doping all patients to the eyeballs with thorazine so administrators could cut staff. In addition, since the hospital budget was based on the number of patients, it was nearly impossible to get discharged.

[@jamesbennett5587]

There still here nothing's really changed there's state hospitals across the country

[@Simple_But_Expensive]

@@jamesbennett5587 The state hospitals only house those who are a danger to themselves or others. There used to be enough beds that seeing a mentally challenged person on the street was rare. Now they make up a large percentage of the homeless.

[@Eldraug]

Maybe if we had universal Healthcare, people could get the help they need.

[@alicechilders7972]

We're aren't dogs or any kind of animals and we don't need to be locked away

[@DavidMueller666]

SEVERAL YEARS AGO I WAS CONFINED TO A FORENSIC HOSPITAL AS THEY ARE NOW CALLED FOR ABOUT FOUR MONTHS (IT'S A LONG STORY). I COULD ONLY DREAM OF THE DOCTOR DISHING OUT CIGARETTES FOR ME TO SMOKE AND ALSO SMOKING ONE HIMSELF AS IS DEPICTED HERE. I CRAVED ONE CONSTANTLY WHEN I WAS IN THIS SITUATION.

[@michaelsteele4587]

they're only referred to as a "Forensic Hospital" if its a facility specifically for someone facing legal charges and need to be cleared for any mental illness before facing charges, anyone else would go to a "Behavior Health" clinic or Psychiatric facility.

[@DavidMueller666]

@@michaelsteele4587 THAT IS THE KIND I WAS IN AFTER A CORRUPT COURT PSYCHOLOGIST DEEMED ME "UNFIT FOR TRIAL."

[@Ivy.Huesmann]

my grandma lived and grew up on the second floor of the hospital. Dr Jesse Bateman is my great grandfather and a psychiatrist here, pretty crazy to see him on you tube almost 100 years later…

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Do I know you sir or madame?

[@cnance1972]

So glad our understanding of mental illness has gotten better.

[@rogerbartlet5720]

LOL - yea, simply declare mental illness “normal” and problem solved!

[@MitzvosGolem1]

treatment of them is worse in many states sadly.

[@cnance1972]

@@MitzvosGolem1 very true, sadly

[@cnance1972]

@Yummy Spaghetti Noodles I agree but it is much better since the 50s . More should be done, I feel deeply for those suffering.

[@MitzvosGolem1]

@@cnance1972 many horrific " crimes " committed by mentally ill also.. Los Vegas shooter and recent attacks in nyc subway just a few.

[@SoobikPisik]

After that, watch Titicut Follies...

[@growlerthedog]

Yeah, that's a very different film. 'The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ordered that "A brief explanation shall be included in the film that changes and improvements have taken place at Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater since 1966."'

[@BHARGAV_GAJJAR]

We know more about the universe than we know of the human mind

[@albear972]

This is a *crazy* film! 😜

[@alphaomega8373]

Can't say crazy anymore.

[@azmike1]

America should reinstitute the "city of the sick" institutions. Too many mental people are running amok today and pose great dangers to society.

[@tonyc.4528]

We call them "colleges" now.

[@jagboy69]

@@Flyboyb747 and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. You see it's current resident???

[@josephkelley8641]

I spent some of my happiest years here...

[@doraexplora9046]

LOL

[@R.WARREN]

VERY interesting....

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@Senacacrane]

Wow just wow. We do not need State hospitals. Some people stay with you and there are some that still exist but are kept about. We do not need hospitals anymore .

[@darthstanley166]

10:05, No! no! Not 3 on a match!

[@R32R38]

A superstition from World War I. By the time the third soldier used a match an enemy sniper would have time to aim at the flame and the man behind it.

[@BrianEltherington]

@@R32R38 True story on origin but not one of superstition. Superstition denotes irrational belief such as “bad things come in threes or three being an unlucky number”. The idea of not keeping a match lit for a prolonged time when in a combat situation is quite rational.

[@maxcohen13]

Take the time stamp and the URL of the screen. Not only are they blocking the video, you don't actually own the footage.

[@azmike1]

The electric shock is very disturbing. I don't think they use this method anymore to try and bring the patient back to reality. Do they?

[@montana_patriot]

It's used worldwide today still, and it can be effective in some people.

[@DavidBugea]

It’s still used, particularly for severe depression, but my understanding is that it’s done differently than it was in the 1950s. For one thing, it’s more localized to one area of the brain.

[@montana_patriot]

@@DavidBugea also most countries require anesthesia before the treatment. It worked well for my uncle.

[@chrisfuller1268]

I was married to a woman that had electro-shock therapy in the 80's. She didn't tell me about it until after we were married, and it was a great relief when she ran off with a doctor.

[@OATMEALCMC]

They to far worse than shock therapy today.

[@faschwank]

Washington D,C, "The City of the sick."

[@acidqueen69]

Nowadays the general public and police have to be the asylum attendants.

[@charliepearce8767]

I live in the worlds biggest mental hospital Its called Brisbane Queensland...

[@Tadesan]

I'd love to live there!

[@echofoxtrot2.051]

Yeah, after 2020, I was less upset about how expensive tickets are to visit Aussieland. Hope you're alright down there. We're not alright here in the upper Western Hemisphere.

[@doraexplora9046]

@@echofoxtrot2.051 Yeah that's because you guys have something wrong with your plumbing. Because all the water goes down the sink the wrong way!

[@Nash4Nashville]

These old asylums are one of the big question marks with the Mudflooders here on YT. These were supposedly built in the late 1800s but no one buys that HIStory. Tory (n.) 1566, "an outlaw," specifically "one of a class of Irish robbers noted for outrages and savage cruelty," from Irish toruighe "plunderer," originally "pursuer, About 1646, it emerged as a derogatory term for Irish Catholics dispossessed of their land (some of whom subsequently turned to outlawry); As an adjective from 1680s. In American history, Tory was the name given after 1769 to colonists who remained loyal to the crown; it represents their relative position in the pre-revolutionary English political order in the colonies.

[@daveo532]

And did I mention before they become CEO of General Motors?

[@frankgarrett242]

‘A state hospital for the mentally ill’ Or as we call it in Canada, Parliament Hill.

[@jagboy69]

We call it Capital hill here in the US. Have you seen the nut jobs they call, "the squad" ??????? What's worse, Americans keep voting for this lunacy. And yeah, you guys have the king of the whackos in a PM.

[@tomakafrankconlon3207]

Jesus if the topic was not so sad this would be comical. Laurel and Hardy or Bob Hope should appear any minute with a sketch.

[@lynnthomas3720]

My aunt, yrs ago, worked in one of those hospitals. Crazy guy ran a leg of a chair right through her!

[@johnappleton9349]

I used to be a hydrotherapist, I could work a jacuzzi like nobody else.

[@maxasaurus3008]

I know that was a lot of fluff but a lot of it wasn’t! Society knew we needed institutions for the ill, we need them again.

[@alphaomega8373]

Modern safety windows... hehe\ Wonder if they segregated the mentally ill?

[@Doodlesthegreat]

It was the 1950's. I'll give you three guesses, and the first two don't count.

[@rapman5363]

These facilities are where the term “nuthouse” comes from.

[@drott150]

I thought that was a pecan factory?

[@toddmiller5884]

@@drott150 Oh, yes. The William Stuckey Psychiatric Hospital.

[@beaubanhagel6598]

gingerbread towers dude lol. they make these places sound like a hell of a place but..........yeaahhhhh no..................thanks though..... just give me a pill jesus christ.

[@sisyphus9252]

We need to try this approach again. Throwing some of the prescription drugs at the problems only leads to the break down of the family nucleus, homelessness and illegal drug abuse.