Mental : A History of the Mad House (PART 4)

BBC 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. Today, most mental patients, or service users as they are now called, live out in the community and the asylums have all but disappeared. Through powerful testimonies from patients, nurses and doctors, the film explores this seismic revolution and what it tells us about society's changing attitudes to mental illness over the last sixty years.

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[Carlm2]

There is no care in the community.Community just doesn't care about mental health!!

[sydandtaytum]

@scumgod13 so sad. psych evaluation/treatment in this country is pretty much nonexistent for the poor

[scumgod13]

I agree with the closing but couldn't they have had a halfway house or something.It's like it happens here in the U.S.,there's Mental Institutions but they keep these folks until their insurance is gone,then drop them off downtown. I have seen it done,their bus stops and 5 or 10 people get out.Normally I think they show them where the missions are and foodlines.That's it.