@@Frosty_tha_Snowman and then there's the 'experiments' certain government agencies performed on basically anyone - from unsuspecting citizens, to lower level military servicemen.
Stuff like what's being described here still happens, its on a much smaller scale, we can try to be grateful for that. But I've witnessed a good amount of some pretty similar awful evil things happening
No surprise how Insane Asylums were abusive to unwell people. Another insane asylum people should look at, which is less terrifying but still popular for those into paranormal activities would be the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. It has a less terrifying, but still abusive history of its own. They even have overnight tours there too.
My great-grandmother was a patient at Byberry in the 50’s (maybe 60’s) She suffered from severe depression and an unregulated mood disorder. My grandmother always said once she got out she was never the same. She didn’t talk about many things that happened, so we don’t know what she went through. It still haunts to to this very day wondering what atrocities she probably suffered while locked away.
Willowbrook was horrible too. Back when Geraldo Rivera was still a respected journalist he did a piece on it. It's absolutely heartbreaking. My youngest son is autistic, non verbal, and cognitively disabled, the thought that he would have possibly been placed somewhere like that if he'd been born in a different time is almost too much to bare.
As someone who's been put in psychiatric "In patient" care, I can say that the system has barely improved. Myself and others were verbally berated, isolated when around others, and left alone for no reason in our locked rooms, held in a sort of medical limbo where they would refuse to let us out even if we committed ourselfs, or if parents, caregivers tried to get us released.Withheld medicine,teased, bullied by staff, some even tried to get us to have mental break downs. To this day I don't trust any kind of mental institution.
Sorry to hear that. I'm inpatient at a psychiatric facility and apart from therapy being a bit thin on the ground, most of the OT is DIY, I don't have any complaints. It's really helped me and my medication has been improved, while in the community it can be a really slow process to get proper help.
Over medicating patients is still a problem today in crisis stabilization units in Texas. They only have 14 days to stabilize whomever is admitted so they will throw a laundry list of drugs at them, and often cannot attribute which drug if any was beneficial or unnecessary. I've also seen doctors over the phone order a restraint (sedation) and through carelessness or ineptitude administer 4 times the maximum dosage of Thorazine in a intramuscular shot. To be fair the nurse that carried out the order was guilty of negligence as well for not having checked dosing guidelines, but yeah this is 2022 and abuse still happens to these unseen people.
One time when I was in the hospital I saw a story on the local news saying that *hundreds* of unmarked Graves had been discovered of the grounds of the old state mental hospital. This was around Halloween too, making the atmosphere that much spookier. "Poor record keeping." Some of it no doubt intentional.
Never thought I'd hear the word Thorazine again...I had to take that as a kid when my ADHD kicked in and mixed with my Oppositional Defiant Disorder...I never recommend that stuff, it makes you a zombie.
I had a mentally disabled great aunt that I never knew existed until she passed away because my great grandparents pretty much dumped her at an asylum and no one ever talked about her again. I have no idea how she was treated because I don't believe any of my family members ever visited her. I know thats what people did back then, but it still blows my mind.
Animals aren't mindless objects either and also deserve to be treated like sentient beings but I see your point treating ppl with mental illness/special needs like this is disgusting.
I remember Byberry quite well. I lived in Philly and used to pass by it frequently. I even visited it once to help build a walking trail as part of a Boy Scout project. It was a scary place even in the 80's.
What about Pennhurst Asylum? It's a haunted attraction now but back in the day it was just abandoned and my friends would sneak in at night. Rumor has it that when it shut down they just let all the patients go. That's why all that creepy stuff happens in east-central PA.
3:48 - "Taking pictures of the conditions inside was strictly prohibited". OF COURSE IT WAS. People! Freedom of the Press is a vital part of the Constitution! You have a right to record anything you can see from a public place! The Supreme Court ruled this using the 1st Amendment as its basis! Never back down if someone wants to quash your rights! If a government entity doesn't want you to record, you SHOULD assume they lack accountability and transparency!
@@slappy1234567 Did you seriously have to bring politics into this? Do I really have to do this to this poor person? Know what I will. Were was the Republican party on this day, one year ago?
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Required Reading in my Gradeschool, featured a protagonist who plead insanity to beat a conviction and witnessed authoritarian control, electroshock therapy and lobotomies. I found it so terrifying as a child, that knowing, to this day your therapist could send you to a place like that, has made me mistrust the mental health community. I tried calling a therapy line from my company one time when I was under a lot of pressure from work and debt, and one of the first questions the answerer asked was ‘are you a danger to yourself or others’. I instinctively knew this was a trap question where the wrong answer would lead to the authorities being called. I hung up and never called back. 📞
It’s not a trap question. It’s very hard for them to involuntarily commit you to a ward. It’s a pretty standard question that drives which way treatment needs to go. If you need help, don’t let that stop you.
I was in more "modern" asylum for 2weeks for suicide attempt. Trust me, i was felling worse than i was before. Thanks to my dad that he listened to me and busted me out of there
One I will point out is although accountability is better now some nursing homes still have an issue with over or erroneously medicating to subdue unruly patients
I'm autistic, but I'm one of those cases where I can talk in complete sentences and function like a regular adult. Of course, with autism comes other mental health issues like depression, ADHD, anxiety, and OCD. Despite all of it, I have an IQ of 97, but it could be higher since I was having a panic attack during the IQ test. I didn't visually show that I was panicking, but if you hooked me up to a machine where you can see the patient's vital signs, my heart would've been racing, and my blood pressure would've been elevated.
My family had a house about a block or two away from byberry. My grandfather would tell my stories that they would have non lethal bear traps in the fields to catch the loonies that would escape into the fields. Eventually the asylum closed and just let them out.
And these places are still abusive now even to the kids,teens,children that shouldn't be in there anyway. The fact anyone is shocked just shows how this stuff goes unnoticed and unreported mostly cause the patients have no rights especially under age ones.
It’s true that just about every asylum that was abandoned is haunted by the poor souls of the patients. It’s so heartbreaking for all the patients to go all the treatment. Glad that mental health is taken very seriously today and not a curse from God. But they do not only put people with mental health issues but people with disabilities as well. Especially those with developmental and cognitive disabilities.
Had to watch & show this video to some of my family members I used to hang out there with a sister and brother I never knew exactly what happened there I knew it was a mental hospital wild story
I used to go there when I was younger with my friend's when it was shut down / abandon a lot of people used to stay in there and hang out overnight with a bunch of kids a little freaky hanging out there though 👻😱 just creepy especially at 👻night👻time👻I live in Philadelphia plus it's not that far from me I don't think it's there anymore they demolished it
I'm glad things are a lot better in the mental health ward I'm on, still I 'm looking forward to discharge and being allowed homely things like proper blankets and wired headphones. The blankets here are so thin they barely deserve to be called a blanket, all in the name of health and safety. Still it's definitely not abusive. The staff really care and you are not overmedicated. It has been an environment where I've been able to heal in.
Does anyone know where we can submit ideas for a new video topic? There's this one question I want answered so badly and I really want this channel to make a video about it.
What the name of doctor who torture a lot of patients secretely i all remember on his name is doctor von,van,bon or ban ahhh i forgot his name his more wrost than the others in history.
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What's more insane in this whole story is they didn't close the asylum until 1990. That's over 50 years after the truth was revealed. Yikes!
... still goes on..
Guantanamo bay still in operation
just a few years before i was born
I am utterly horrified at the kind of terrible things that happened in this place. Truly awful
There's way, way, way worse hospitals than this one. This is just the one that got exposed in the most public light.
@@Frosty_tha_Snowman and then there's the 'experiments' certain government agencies performed on basically anyone - from unsuspecting citizens, to lower level military servicemen.
Stuff like what's being described here still happens, its on a much smaller scale, we can try to be grateful for that. But I've witnessed a good amount of some pretty similar awful evil things happening
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Utterly horrified lol what a drama queen
My father was a psychologist in the mid 80’s here and he confirms the horror.
Audio interview him on what he witnessed before he passes.
Assuming your father was a qualified psychologist I can only imagine how terrible it must’ve been as he probably wanted to help the patients
@@vincenzoaudittori1490 yes please
No surprise how Insane Asylums were abusive to unwell people. Another insane asylum people should look at, which is less terrifying but still popular for those into paranormal activities would be the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. It has a less terrifying, but still abusive history of its own. They even have overnight tours there too.
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I like your profile pic :)
i would love to tour that place. people got sent there for absolutely bogus reasons.
It's shameful how they treated people, still do.. inhumane and just plain abuse and torture..
@Paradigm Shift They treated all colors the same in there, horribly..
@Paradigm Shift They are idiots..
Yeah even for mentally insane poeple.
@@dewaldsteyn1306 mentally ill people should be treated like any other sick person.. like any other person..
I was actually expecting this to be about Pennhurst, but then again most if not all asylums have stories of abuse.
One of my college dorms was a former mental hospital. You could still tell. Unsurprisingly there were rumors that the place was haunted.
My great-grandmother was a patient at Byberry in the 50’s (maybe 60’s) She suffered from severe depression and an unregulated mood disorder. My grandmother always said once she got out she was never the same. She didn’t talk about many things that happened, so we don’t know what she went through. It still haunts to to this very day wondering what atrocities she probably suffered while locked away.
Willowbrook was horrible too. Back when Geraldo Rivera was still a respected journalist he did a piece on it. It's absolutely heartbreaking. My youngest son is autistic, non verbal, and cognitively disabled, the thought that he would have possibly been placed somewhere like that if he'd been born in a different time is almost too much to bare.
As someone who's been put in psychiatric "In patient" care, I can say that the system has barely improved. Myself and others were verbally berated, isolated when around others, and left alone for no reason in our locked rooms, held in a sort of medical limbo where they would refuse to let us out even if we committed ourselfs, or if parents, caregivers tried to get us released.Withheld medicine,teased, bullied by staff, some even tried to get us to have mental break downs. To this day I don't trust any kind of mental institution.
Hope you ok now
There seems to be a huge deficit in mental hospitals in this country anymore
Sorry to hear that. I'm inpatient at a psychiatric facility and apart from therapy being a bit thin on the ground, most of the OT is DIY, I don't have any complaints. It's really helped me and my medication has been improved, while in the community it can be a really slow process to get proper help.
Can confirm, insane asylums are scary
U went insane???!
my first genuine wat
@@TheBritishAstronomer nah i Visited one, it was horror
@@goosespace3279 he’s right - I’m the asylum
@@goosespace3279 when
Finally, a title that sounds interesting. Was getting worried for a bit..
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah I haven’t clicked on a video in a while 💀
🤣🤣🤣 me too
Fr um migga
Yeah they haven’t been the best lately
Over medicating patients is still a problem today in crisis stabilization units in Texas. They only have 14 days to stabilize whomever is admitted so they will throw a laundry list of drugs at them, and often cannot attribute which drug if any was beneficial or unnecessary. I've also seen doctors over the phone order a restraint (sedation) and through carelessness or ineptitude administer 4 times the maximum dosage of Thorazine in a intramuscular shot. To be fair the nurse that carried out the order was guilty of negligence as well for not having checked dosing guidelines, but yeah this is 2022 and abuse still happens to these unseen people.
One time when I was in the hospital I saw a story on the local news saying that *hundreds* of unmarked Graves had been discovered of the grounds of the old state mental hospital. This was around Halloween too, making the atmosphere that much spookier. "Poor record keeping." Some of it no doubt intentional.
Never thought I'd hear the word Thorazine again...I had to take that as a kid when my ADHD kicked in and mixed with my Oppositional Defiant Disorder...I never recommend that stuff, it makes you a zombie.
I had a mentally disabled great aunt that I never knew existed until she passed away because my great grandparents pretty much dumped her at an asylum and no one ever talked about her again. I have no idea how she was treated because I don't believe any of my family members ever visited her. I know thats what people did back then, but it still blows my mind.
I'm sorry to hear that.. unfortunately it was pretty common, it still is.. 💔
Sounds like a standard asylum, treat the people like animals, get away with it for years, nasty places...
Animals aren't mindless objects either and also deserve to be treated like sentient beings but I see your point treating ppl with mental illness/special needs like this is disgusting.
I remember Byberry quite well. I lived in Philly and used to pass by it frequently. I even visited it once to help build a walking trail as part of a Boy Scout project. It was a scary place even in the 80's.
What about Pennhurst Asylum? It's a haunted attraction now but back in the day it was just abandoned and my friends would sneak in at night. Rumor has it that when it shut down they just let all the patients go. That's why all that creepy stuff happens in east-central PA.
Sadly, some of those conditions didn't change until today in some Autistic ABA clinics.
Electroshocking children...
3:48 - "Taking pictures of the conditions inside was strictly prohibited". OF COURSE IT WAS.
People! Freedom of the Press is a vital part of the Constitution! You have a right to record anything you can see from a public place! The Supreme Court ruled this using the 1st Amendment as its basis! Never back down if someone wants to quash your rights!
If a government entity doesn't want you to record, you SHOULD assume they lack accountability and transparency!
Kind of like how Democrats are prohibiting photographing how January 6th prisoners are being abused and neglected. Very similar.
@@slappy1234567 happy insurrection day
Ordinarily I would agree but freedom of press doesn't override patient confidentiality. And inside a hospital is not classed as a public place.
@@slappy1234567 Did you seriously have to bring politics into this?
Do I really have to do this to this poor person? Know what I will.
Were was the Republican party on this day, one year ago?
@@slappy1234567 Or how a Republican Florida lawmaker wants to make it illegal to record police.
I got my face stitched up without pain killers when i was in 2nd grade at a regular hospital
That’s different
Nothing more terrifying than old asylums. Outlast wouldn’t be half as scary if it was in an office building
I used to think that Most People are "Good." Day by Day, I'm believeing Otherwise.
💯 Mee too for sure. Smdh
For the female character that said “I love to torture cats”.. can we feature her in the next “worst punishments” video
History is a very slow upward projection and it can never go fast enough
Why aren’t there movies about this, like a pretend it’s 1950s or something
This place was indeed a horrible place to be in. Glad it's gone. May it stay that way.
and I thought the psych ward I went to was bad
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Required Reading in my Gradeschool, featured a protagonist who plead insanity to beat a conviction and witnessed authoritarian control, electroshock therapy and lobotomies. I found it so terrifying as a child, that knowing, to this day your therapist could send you to a place like that, has made me mistrust the mental health community. I tried calling a therapy line from my company one time when I was under a lot of pressure from work and debt, and one of the first questions the answerer asked was ‘are you a danger to yourself or others’. I instinctively knew this was a trap question where the wrong answer would lead to the authorities being called. I hung up and never called back. 📞
It’s not a trap question. It’s very hard for them to involuntarily commit you to a ward. It’s a pretty standard question that drives which way treatment needs to go. If you need help, don’t let that stop you.
Faith in humanity was struck down some Levels in this video. 😟
You shouldnt be shocked. All lunatic asylums had some abuse going on at some point.
Gotta watch AHS asylum again. So good
I was in more "modern" asylum for 2weeks for suicide attempt. Trust me, i was felling worse than i was before. Thanks to my dad that he listened to me and busted me out of there
Please we need more survival stories its been long 😭😭
everyone else: "This place sounds truly awful"
Me: Funni homer simpson in cage
One I will point out is although accountability is better now some nursing homes still have an issue with over or erroneously medicating to subdue unruly patients
Outlast is based on this very asylum
Now do a vid on Ferald State School, they did nuclear experiments on kids
Wow...This place makes Arkham Asylum look like a vacation resort
Nah, Arkham Asylum is still worse. It's that bad.
I miss that classic pc game called SAS Zombie Assault 2: Insane Asylum.
I'm autistic, but I'm one of those cases where I can talk in complete sentences and function like a regular adult. Of course, with autism comes other mental health issues like depression, ADHD, anxiety, and OCD. Despite all of it, I have an IQ of 97, but it could be higher since I was having a panic attack during the IQ test. I didn't visually show that I was panicking, but if you hooked me up to a machine where you can see the patient's vital signs, my heart would've been racing, and my blood pressure would've been elevated.
"resembled" torture...
That place still doesn't have anyone as terrifying as Victor Chaos.
yup, him and his NFTs
Sure they did...the staff...
My family had a house about a block or two away from byberry. My grandfather would tell my stories that they would have non lethal bear traps in the fields to catch the loonies that would escape into the fields. Eventually the asylum closed and just let them out.
And these places are still abusive now even to the kids,teens,children that shouldn't be in there anyway.
The fact anyone is shocked just shows how this stuff goes unnoticed and unreported mostly cause the patients have no rights especially under age ones.
They need to put cameras in these places and make it Livestream for everyone to see what's going on.
4:52 It was common to see human feces? Sort of like San Francisco these days :(
if only people back then had the electronic gadgets and 5G high speed internet of 21st century then everyone would be sane
Its never good when any place is litteraly called (or sounds like) bribary
I find it sad whenever something that was doing good gets ruined for one reason or another..
, hear you but they put out so much content it's like batting practice but their one of my favorites, Infographics is a great channel
So I live in Philadelphia and when you said it was here I immediately wanted to go
Speaking of asylums.....how about a "you vs pyramid head" video ? It's been a while since we had one
I hate when they mention a video with no links to it
Pennhurst was a very similar story
I have never heard a worse story. O.O
It’s true that just about every asylum that was abandoned is haunted by the poor souls of the patients. It’s so heartbreaking for all the patients to go all the treatment. Glad that mental health is taken very seriously today and not a curse from God. But they do not only put people with mental health issues but people with disabilities as well. Especially those with developmental and cognitive disabilities.
Finally, some recognition for my house.
Talk about losing your head lol
We call this all the family around for Xmas in the UK
Why does give me outlast vibes
I used to go there with friends in high school before it was torn down…creepy
@theinfographicshow you should make a video about the movie "shutter island"
When you live in Philly
Are you talking about Arkham Asylum?
Insane they may be but human they remain
I looked up the pictures cause I was interested and it truly is horrifying
I wished it was still standing. It would be cool to explore the place.
People that pretend to be insane to supposedly avoid a harsher sentence need to watch this video
Yeah, real insane people are pretty creepy. Asylums are horrifying.
Now we know how we got outlast game series
The people in the past were interesting lets put it that way
when world war 2 hits and ou realize that you are running a concentration camp
Had to watch & show this video to some of my family members I used to hang out there with a sister and brother I never knew exactly what happened there I knew it was a mental hospital wild story
This is why I’d you want something done, you need to take matters into your own hands.
Infographics show are gangster
Always people from poor backgrounds were exploited with all manner of atrocities! 🧠
🥶😱
You only need to play Silent Hill to have a vague idea
No matter if the title is interesting or not I’m at least checking in 🤷🏾♂️💯
Is this what american horror story season 2 is based on? It even has a similar name
June 1990? Serious? That's 1,5 year before I was born. :O
I thought in western countries all those horror houses where gonna since at least the 70's.
You should do a video on Pennhurst, similar to this and closed in 1987.
Thankfully this is all in the past and today doctors are 100% good and should be trusted absolutely without question.
Outlast vibes
Sigh... i wish the treatment would still continue to improve today because we are still viewed as "crazy" 😮💨
Netfix series please.
Man Im glad they dropped something different things were becoming low key repetitive
It’s either I watch it and not sleep
Or
I don’t watch it and not sleep anyways
Guess which one I picked
I used to go there when I was younger with my friend's when it was shut down / abandon a lot of people used to stay in there and hang out overnight with a bunch of kids a little freaky hanging out there though 👻😱 just creepy especially at 👻night👻time👻I live in Philadelphia plus it's not that far from me I don't think it's there anymore they demolished it
Spoopy!!!!
Watching infographic show after 3 months
They shouldn't have closed it down, just made it better. Now all those sad people on sleeping under bridges on the streets of Seattle.
I'm glad things are a lot better in the mental health ward I'm on, still I 'm looking forward to discharge and being allowed homely things like proper blankets and wired headphones. The blankets here are so thin they barely deserve to be called a blanket, all in the name of health and safety. Still it's definitely not abusive. The staff really care and you are not overmedicated. It has been an environment where I've been able to heal in.
outwitting the devil. you're stuck with me. WHAT DO YOU SEE NOW? chaotic images. the 3rdEYE of heaven.
Disturbing....
Nice
outlast whistleblower
Arkham…? ARKHAM?!!
Does anyone know where we can submit ideas for a new video topic? There's this one question I want answered so badly and I really want this channel to make a video about it.
Outlast? Amateurs...
Out last...
What the name of doctor who torture a lot of patients secretely i all remember on his name is doctor von,van,bon or ban ahhh i forgot his name his more wrost than the others in history.
yay! i am finally early on one of your videos