City of the Sick - Part II.ASF

[northernlightning]

LOL. This really is a joke.

[Theghostswithin]

@buckyebilly293 Its true what you say..sadly many will never understand the illness and panthera of condition's associated with mental issue's let alone the treatment.

[buckeyebilly293]

northernlightning,

It is really ashame that you have such an uninformed and unhelpful view/opinion of Psychiatry. It is not even worth arguing such ignorance but since you seem to believe you know it all... what is is that you propose you/we treat mental illness with other than evidence based medicine and FDA approved medication? I have a feeling what you will say!

[Abreen11]

@buckeyebilly293 northernlightning's view/opinion is far from uninformed. So do you hold the view that everything was all okay in these old mental asylums and the patients were treated well? Herding masses of people into overcrowded snakepits is somehow benificial for their well being? Unless someone is a risk to themselves or others, being part of the wider community is a great way to treat mental illness. Locking people up, out of sight out of mind only exacerbates their problem

[northernlightning]

Times haven't changed. This film just shows what psychiatry wanted us to believe. This does not show what a mental facility was like or what it still is, its pure brutality.

This shows how media led people to believe these places as humane places for those who were emotionally hurt. People were and still are horribly abused by psychiatry. Anyone who's been at the hands of psychiatry know what it really is and it's not caring for people. Confinement, forced drugging for the name sake of money.

[martita1947]

@northernlightning True, still the same and getting worst.

[Abreen11]

@northernlightning Your comment is quite valid. This is a fantastic propaganda video to make mental health facilites look like Club Med and make everyone believe that behind closed doors everything is rosey. The reality, particularly back then was that psych facilities were overcrowded, understaffed and underfunded dumping grounds for anyone who was identified , rightly or wrongly as having a mental illness. Abuse of patients from staff was also rife..

[ghostinthemean]

I love old school!