Patient

Haunting film stock of mental patients from the 1940's and 50's.

Music is "Never Forgive Me, Never Forget Me" by Akira Yamaoka

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• mental
• patients
• hospital
• insane
• asylum
• masks
• Silent
• Hill
• horror
• 1940
• 1950
• old
• film
• black
• and
• white
• footage
• lobotomy
• documentary
• Akira
• Yamaoka
• Peter
• Ahern

[morrigan909]

sad these people were just thrown here like broken toys.

[JoeyDizzle28]

they are masked to protect their identities, standard procedure when videoing mental patients of that era

[xyqk]

@jackblackmagyk noooo!!!...a better choice is the song oppressive nights in mental asylum by the band Life is pain..THATS scary...I hate the sound from the vocalist from silencer..but all time favorite is for me always Darkthrone

[mrmebs]

anyway to download this video? think it will be useful a presentation in my class

[termite1944]

It is time mental illness was stopped being an excuse to abuse patents but abuse is rife today.

I lived with patents like this, my friend died following her lobotomy, they covered the eyes because of the extensive bruising, but they destroyed the lives of thousands.

long may they rot in hell!

[ProffesorChaosesFile]

@morrigan909 Our mental health system is definitely broken, but this film didn't seem to be too bad. I saw nothing to indicate mistreatment of these people. Not to say that it hasn't happened to others. If you want to know thrown away like broken toys, visit the hospital ward of a retirement home. I worked in a retirement home and just being there for a few hours a day was depressing. They were treated with no respect. Many of them were confused and scared and the CNA's offered no comfort.

[akuroku358]

Silent hill musiiiic

[jackblackmagyk]

Try and watch this video while listening to "Sterile nails and Thunderbowels" By Silencer if you have balls to do so... and turn off the lights too for extra chill.

[clintonearlwalker]

@ArmadaRanger That's very possible they were masked to cover the effects of a lobotomy, however it's also possible they were masked to hide their identity. I know dark glassed were often used to hide the bruising from lobotomies. Walter Freeman a "doctor" performed many of them. Some at the former Weston State Hospital, I visited there last summer. Vids of the place on YouTube. Some of the lobotomy ice picks and an ect machine are still there.

[Wildflipper]

this is scary :( and sad ) :

[darkwavekid]

this is sad and i seen this in a music video

[ArmadaRanger]

@JoeyDizzle28 That would make sense, but they were actually masked to cover their dark-eyes after having overcomed a transorbital lobotomy.