Mental Institutions Today

This is a video that I shot for my project for my Abnormal Psychology class. It is about my ex boyfriend and his experience in the psych ward (the same ex that I did the video "Sweet Redemption" on). It's 10 minutes long, so if you watch it all, you're awesome.

Bad background noise during parts of it. I'm not wealthy enough to get the software to remove stuff like that.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• abnormal
• psychology
• mental
• institutions

[Passionatebeyez]

dude thanks for this video Im in abnormal psychology and this just stirred my heart so much that patients are still today recieving some forms of unmoral treatment!!!

[lilshortyj0306]

wow. thank you so much!!! but this is just based on one case. things may be different now. but thank you!!

[ssdiforlife]

I am a petite female. I was ATTACKED by three male hospital staff at Alexandria Hospital in VA. for not speaking when spoken to. I was just standing there. Bad treatment is still going on. But what does the public care if it isn't happening to them!!!

[ninjaofthe9seas]

i'm glad my depression didnt get this bad...

[clairebehun]

very interesting thanks

[therage198911]

@therage198911 never mind it was korn make me bad good video Im in a general psychology class, that stuff is crazy I heard you can get tranked and thorasized .

[thejameskan]

love the video man

[staranjela]

you have some great stuff here

[therage198911]

what is the song in the video, I saw that video along time ago on mtv.

[rickybarningham]

@rickybarningham they used to labotomize people in mental hospitals, they STILL to this day can give electroshock thearpy against our will (they need a court order) i myself have been left in my own urine,strapped down, shot up with drugs, and lied about in my patient file. this would be a horrible thing, but what makes it more cruel (in the case of schizo) is its not even a disorder or affliction, it is an ability or a sensativity to the spirit world, which makes this treatment more unwarranted

[rickybarningham]

@rickybarningham fact is "schizophrenics" in other countries can be off medication and function alot better then the ones over here who are told theyre crazy and they dont know whats real, halucinations (auditory and visual) are not all in our heads, they are things happening in the supernatural realm, we act out in odd sumtimes dangerous measures becuz we are told what were experiencing isnt real, its much healthier to look at it from another point of view rather then "your insane,take drugs"

[rickybarningham]

@rickybarningham fact is (in the case of schizophrenia) in other parts of the world people we could call schizo are looked at as having a sensativity to the supernatural/spiritual world. we are looked up to in other countries and cultures instead of looked down on, told were crazy, and shoved pills with horrible side effects down our throat. i haooen to believe that what i go through is a supernatural thing NOT a disorder

[rickybarningham]

@rickybarningham ......and more often then not they break rules and laws about patient rights, no one will listen to a mental patient ESPEACIALLY while he is currently hospitalized, and the lawyers that are supposed to represent us usually are aquaintences of the hospital (staff,doctors etc) so they care about the interest of the hospital more then ours, unless we can afford our own attorneys, which most cant.

[rickybarningham]

i am 25 i have been hospitalized a number of times, the experience is very frustrating, MOST mental hospital staff are not right for the job, they need to be alot more sensative and kind knowing that the people theyre dealing with are in an alternate reality that at times can be very scary to us. i have seen staff members get verbaly and physically abusive, patients being put in seclusion and often strapped down for unwarranted reason, they love to threaten you into doing what they want....