Good Lord. I am on the autistic spectrum (although to some extent I can still connect with 'normal' society) and I can't help wondering whether I might have ended up somewhere like this, had I been alive in a different era.
"1993,our mental hospitals are closing."With the vast majority of patients who DO suffer from mental illness wandering the streets without any support!Is this not also a tragedy?Comples issues are never that black and white,rather shades of grey.
To think that now we know that it was a case of out of sight out of mind with many people placed in asylums, its still really quite staggering to hear of peoples experiences in the system when they shouldn't have been !!
In my work experience in a mental hospital I had the chance of talking to a guy who in his youth has been tied to a radiator in an isolated room, fed on a tray that the nurses pushed at him with a brush, cleaned and washed once a week....
In part one Jeffrey Abbott is featured, Jeffrey spent 22 years in Meanwood wrongly diagnosed as a mental defective. He was in fact deaf and of above intelligence, it was that very intelligence that kept him sane for all those years. Executive officer Squires took him after his father signed the papers required to remove him to Meanwood. He was eventually rescued by Martin Smith, Jeffrey also features in part 5.
There was also a man in Meanwood park Hospital called Ernest, the only thing wrong with him was he was BLIND, my mum was a nurse on Villa's 8 and 8a, she used to bring 4 people home on a Saturday afternoon for tea, Ernest loved Snowballs, the marshmallow sweet....very intelligent man..x
BOTH KIDS AND ADULTS GOT LOCKED UP FOR PRACTICALLY ANYTHING IF THEIR MIND WASN'T CORRECT OR IF THEY DID SOMETHING WRONG THAT GOT THEM LOCKED UP AND FORGOTTEN ABOUT
Good Lord. I am on the autistic spectrum (although to some extent I can still connect with 'normal' society) and I can't help wondering whether I might have ended up somewhere like this, had I been alive in a different era.
Watched this before. It’s really interesting is heartbreaking at the years wasted. For mainly nothing. ❤️😡
care in the community has left so many of these inpatients in a worse position, I see it every day !
"1993,our mental hospitals are closing."With the vast majority of patients who DO suffer from mental illness wandering the streets without any support!Is this not also a tragedy?Comples issues are never that black and white,rather shades of grey.
To think that now we know that it was a case of out of sight out of mind with many people placed in asylums, its still really quite staggering to hear of peoples experiences in the system when they shouldn't have been !!
In my work experience in a mental hospital I had the chance of talking to a guy who in his youth has been tied to a radiator in an isolated room, fed on a tray that the nurses pushed at him with a brush, cleaned and washed once a week....
I look forward to watching the rest of them!!
In part one Jeffrey Abbott is featured, Jeffrey spent 22 years in Meanwood wrongly diagnosed as a mental defective.
He was in fact deaf and of above intelligence, it was that very intelligence that kept him sane for all those years.
Executive officer Squires took him after his father signed the papers required to remove him to Meanwood.
He was eventually rescued by Martin Smith, Jeffrey also features in part 5.
There was also a man in Meanwood park Hospital called Ernest, the only thing wrong with him was he was BLIND, my mum was a nurse on Villa's 8 and 8a, she used to bring 4 people home on a Saturday afternoon for tea, Ernest loved Snowballs, the marshmallow sweet....very intelligent man..x
Please come back and do more videos
What a waste
BOTH KIDS AND ADULTS GOT LOCKED UP FOR PRACTICALLY ANYTHING IF THEIR MIND WASN'T CORRECT OR IF THEY DID SOMETHING WRONG THAT GOT THEM LOCKED UP AND FORGOTTEN ABOUT
I expect I'd have done some serious damage to the guards even at that age, what more could they do to me?
'Popped into hospital' !!!!
i love this film - i can't wait for the fucking sequel - are the people you mum and dad and family AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAH