From Asylums to Recovery

[@Vivacious_Chaos]

Excellent documentary. So wonderful to see how many people have been paving the way for change. We still have more to do. Yet, I'm so grateful for those given voice to the voiceless.

[@chanelwalker4809]

Excellent documentation on these historical facts on asylums, the treatment of human lives and those who have made advanced strides to promote awareness and change. I thoroughly enjoyed considering this information. Thanks for sharing!

[@ddylla85]

Asylums became dumping grounds & combine overcrowding with shrinking state budgets and you get the nightmare conditions we think of nowadays. Asylums once were self contained cities where patients thrived.

[@qjtvaddict]

Now they attract gangs how did that work out

[@PlaidHiker]

@@qjtvaddict If I want hard drugs, asylums are the place to go! I meant street drugs, but if you snort some psychiatrics, they are practically the same. We took away humanity, and gave out pills in place.

[@BigDrill39]

This is great documentary, especially with everything the world is going through lately. We need to realize how important mental health is and how we got to where we are and how we will get to were we are going.

[@hollynonya6991]

We need institutions back Maybe 1-10 successfully institutionalized in 70's when they were finishing kicking everyone out The rest died on the streets in their own filth , alone and crazy The reason why they institutions didn't work was because they were way underfunded So personalized care was non existent Things are only gonna get worse with mass migration Bring back institutions and find them! Instead of these endless pointers wars

[@hollynonya6991]

Pointless too

[@yukyungkim-cho6882]

Many thanks for making this film. I very much appreciate the movement and its achievement. The improvement needs to be continued. For the film shared here, it will be great if some mistakes in the subtitle can be taken care of.

[@Thesaviorsway]

I am suffering mentally as I was wrongly hospitalized and only way to leave was taking drugs which altered brain chemistry

[@PlaidHiker]

welcome to the ongoing victimization for profit of the mental health system.

[@christopheroconnor1847]

Thank you for sharing

[@JemLifeMinistries]

They did ect to my daughter in 2010. Wicked

[@PlaidHiker]

electro convulsive therapy started as torture, but they found 'evidence' it slightly improves the systems ability to control the mentally ill. So they just put you to sleep and give you anti convulsion drugs to try their best to reduce the whole torture aspect that was original point.

[@carenhoward8079]

[@HockeyVictory66]

Strange. There are now 550,000 homeless folks.

[@capresti3537]

All caused by psychiatrists and the mental heath system disabling them with pseudoscience and drugs.

[@NathanJames-qr8kr]

"Fear is the actionable advancement of an unknown narrative, when thought emerges is where true space becomes invasive" - unknown writer

[@tracylapointe1272]

I would like to share this video, but PLEASE consider recaptioning. The current captioning is wildly inaccurate and makes the video confusing to folks who are deaf or hard of hearing. In this way, it is NOT inclusive. Please re-caption accurately.

[@mentalhealthamerica]

Thank you for flagging this, Tracy! We've gone through and updated the captions.

[@babu357]

What about abuse that's happening today in group homes? I can't find anything about that except some on sexual abuse in private therapy and not much about that. Nothing about verbal abuse, gaslighting. Calling clients names like lazy and disgusting is not "supportive" housing.

[@PlaidHiker]

i've spent a few years on both pediatric, and over 18 homes. Both are reaaaallly fucked up.

[@Admodeus]

From asylums to forgotten, more like. There is little to no help for the mentally disabled and ill.

[@PlaidHiker]

Help? Defiantly not before your health degrades to a point where they feel this type of 'help' is a necessity. From both a moral, and (more importantly to them) financial standpoint, long standing preventative care well before it ever comes to this is simply the better option. It costs a hell of a lot less to a provide a 1/10th of intensive treatment, ten years beforehand, than to let the illness fester to a point where this is the only 'effective solution' But despite the idea that long term investment into mental health, even to those whom are 'healthy,' being the more economic choice. We continue to stick to costly ineffective treatments for a high demand utility. High demand, + high cost= low supply. People whom might have just needed help at certain points in their lives were provided none, and end up here at a greater cost to the system than providing that help. We are not just in the midst of a mental health crisis as a society, but the inception of a start to an even worse situation. The mentality of a society can lead to the utmost of extremes on both ends of the good/ bad spectrum. We are nose diving as a society due to the ill mind becoming the status quo. The craziest of us, are not even aware of it. Because, likewise, everyone else is fucked up, but fucked up in a way that aligns with societal expectations. Do not conform to the illness that is the Ordinary Man.

[@MrOrcshaman]

Closing Asylums didn't make things better, going cold turkey didn't make society more advanced, if anything it allowed for areas of western society to degrade. Closing them wasn't the solution, making them better and more advanced without draconian methods of 'treatment' was the solution. Sometimes human beings are just beyond rational help, you can't just have a doctor give them some pills and hope for the best. We put down rabid animals still, but rabid humans can still walk about without psychological evaluations and treatment now. Open them again, make better treatments, hire and evaluate workers who work there that they are fit for the job.

[@JemLifeMinistries]

Wickedness

[@wynshiphillier313]

We all know about the liberation of mental patients. That happened back in the ‘60’s. Large state hospitals were emptied and closed. The stiffest mental health laws in the country and the world were instituted. These laws, however, are not enforced on behalf of the new patients, who are denied access to the courts. The rights of mental patients are protected by federal law, which requires a state protection and advocacy system. California law additionally requires rights advocates at the county level. They exist and are paid millions of taxpayer dollars. Yet, both sets of organizations deliberately turn a blind eye to the abuses and even the existence of the largest class of clients. The rights of mental patients were advocated in the ‘60’s because of widespread publication of the abhorrent conditions in state mental hospitals. Now, however, patients are subject to the worst abuses as outpatients. Photographs would not communicate them. The news media, too, has turned a blind eye. The first rule of public relations is to consider who is speaking. Who is speaking determines how the hearer will respond to the message. The new patients cannot say who they are. They have no identity. They are silenced. The laws instituted to protect patients have actually become instruments of oppression. Tales of abuse are not believed, because patients obviously have rights. If they haven’t got rights, they must not be patients. The new outpatients are monitored using surveillance. Any social group that they enter, their complaints of abuse and involuntary treatment are derided as delusions and symptoms of mental illness. They are coerced to seek treatment for their “illness” voluntarily. Anyone who is ignorant of what is going on is pulled over to the side of the ones chanting this loud mantra. The same surveillance that monitors the new patients prevents them from ever meeting one another, though they number in the tens of thousands in this San Francisco alone. Confidentiality laws, intended to protect them, prevent them from finding one another or even learning of their own identity. They cannot organize to fight for their rights. They are powerless. Exposed, their vulnerability is exploited to the fullest. Every wrong is committed against them because it is wrong, in hopes of provoking them to violence, so that revenge may quickly be taken. Revenge for what? For being who they are. It began in 2001. Some planes, some buildings in New York City, a change in the surveillance law, an authorization to use military force. Applications for involuntary treatment orders in San Francisco - 3,000 miles away! - shot up by a factor of 19 and continued to rise. From two per week to ten per *day,* more than non-traffic misdemeanors in recent years, closing in on felony complaints. Somehow, one judge handles all of this caseload, which would take over seven of his colleagues in the criminal department. How does he do it? Hypotheses: *Ex parte, in camera* procedures; No witnesses, no evidence; All records sealed; The existence of records sealed - completely sealed cases; No one can even find out the cases exist, least of all their hapless subjects, but they show up on the court statistics still, as a single number. 37,000 people in San Francisco! 4% of the population! One San Franciscan in 25 has been subject to an involuntary treatment order - and perhaps still is - in this century. They are *invisible*!

[@shelleyshell475]

Wow! The fact that you say this is happening now makes patient advocacy that much more important!

[@qjtvaddict]

So now you have tent cities enjoy

[@PlaidHiker]

do you still use this account? I would like to speak more in depth about this, and it seems like you know your shiet. "It began in 2001. Some planes, some buildings in New York City," damn bro.

[@aimeelove8548]

the only way dr omoseni released me from his care when I got locked up put in a straight jacket and drugged in the looney bin was when I mentioned ben hacker's name(his mom is a surgeon) and the fact my daughter was in a lukas rossi video be yourself and 5 other cliches ...I was committed and held against my will because I said I thought I recognized him (as one of the kids from maranatha Christian academy ... because I remember latkin afolabi made music videos with brian danter at his recording studio around 15 years ago or so)so then he locked me up while he went on vacation for 2 weeks

[@PlaidHiker]

I feel ya. This shit is messed up, and flaunted as 'help' when it is the exact opposite. I know this is a 4 year old comment, but as someone who has been through something similar. I will recognize and acknowledge the shit you went through. I don't know who else did, but I know it wasn't enough.

[@aimeelove8548]

i got off a few times with hep c and an addict i met but making out with michael bleyendaal was like he was afraid his false teeth were going to fall out@@PlaidHiker

[@Getreal01]

Well everyone that protest to shut down asylums never had a mental person in their home. Now all these people are on the streets on drugs most do not get help they don’t even believe they are sick. Or they are in prisons. Now there is no help for mental ill people a lot of them torture their families it’s a living nightmare. Maybe get a little break here and there when you can get a 72 hour hold on them and sometimes they will keep them for maybe up to a month but most do not get better most of the treatments do not work. I don’t believe all of them need to be locked up and all mental hospital need to be highly monitored but we need to bring back mental hospitals/asylums WE NEED HELP FOR OUR MENTALLY ILL ALDULT CHILDREN. We need help they need help. HELP US

[@capresti3537]

Chemical imbalance?

[@cathy7382]

The only true spirit is the Holy Spirit

[@laurieberry4814]

Liars. They are advertising help that does not exist. This video shows not be here.