Mental: A History of the Madhouse Part 2

Documentary which tells the fascinating and poignant story of the closure of Britain's mental asylums. In the post-war period, 150,000 people were hidden away in 120 of these vast Victorian institutions all across the country.

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Entertainment

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• mental
• health
• history
• asylum
• madhouse
• britain
• documentary

[dollydot123]

@shazzbot007 Fifty-two years down the line and mental illness is still treated as an illness with a stigma. :-(

[theSCAWP]

14:10 .....she looks pretty hot actually back then!

[BrachypelmaSmithi100]

I suffer with panic disorder and agoraphobia, if i had lived in that time i would have been FUCKED.

[MsCatlover1994]

I'm only 17 years old and after seeing this I feel like I'm 70. It feels like my blood has turned to ice and my body has turned to stone. I just can't understand how people could treat other people so horribley. Do the rest of you feel like you've aged 50 years?

[ManicNurse]

Anyone know what the music is at 7.56?

[usnavysss]

haha occupational therapy smart lets make the dummies do all the labor

[pillowbugg]

Criminals....

[Jezzz549]

13:00 "They physchically slow you up and mentally".. isn't it slow you down but meh

[rickybarningham]

still alot of mistreatment in these places, but its gotten alot better, my problem is, do i have a mental illness, or is it a sensativity to the supernatural realm, im not saying all cases are like mine, but i get the feeling i have an ability to the spirit world, and doctors look at me like i have schizophrenia, it makes me angry, but im glad things are better now a days, but it still has alot of abuse going on

[grettagrids]

Dicyclomine (bentyl) also sedates like these drugs and it's not even classed as that! it's for irritable bowel. Or was I given the wrong drug?

[silver760]

The conservative governments have never done anything for the benefit of the citizens.Everything the conservatives have ever changed or introduced was solely done for the benefit of those in government,cutting costs,selling off every single thing they could,and some things they couldn't.The cons would have destroyed the NHS (well the have)long ago if they could get away with it.I want to know what they did with the billions they "saved" and raised by closing/selling everything,we haven't seen it

[thepixieful]

wish Jean had started a punk band that would have been a better was to deal with her teen feeling. sad tale.