Psychiatric hospital

When I tell people that I spent two weeks in a psychiatric hospital they have two reactions; they feel bad for me, and they become afraid. They no longer know how to act around me. After a couple of days, things go back to normal. Their reactions always stay with me though. It’s a reminder that my time there was the lowest of my life. I have major depressive disorder and I went to the hospital because I wanted to die. Going felt like the biggest failure of my life. It made me feel weak. Having major

Let’s face it, I was bonkers. Nutty, some would say. I was officially deemed crazy by stepping into Wellstone. I was batty like a mellowed out, teenage Charlie Sheen. Who knew that an honors student would be sent to a psychiatric hospital for depression amongst other things? I always kind of knew that is what I would end up doing. It has to get darker before it gets better, right? At least I had my “amazing” people skills that would end up helping nearly all of the staff like me and most of the patients

study and a secondary experiment. Participant observation is a method of study in which the experimenter joins in the process being observed (Barnyard and Grayson 1996). Rosenhan’s study was conducted across 12 psychiatric hospitals. To make the experimental findings more generalizable, hospitals varied in several criteria, including location (five different states), condition (old and newly build) and a staff-patient ratio (some were well staffed, others severely understaffed). (Rosenhan, 1973) There

Realistic the Mental Hospital Was In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest depicts a story of a sane man, Randle McMurphy, who decides to escape imprisonment by entering a psychiatric ward instead. The entire story is viewed in the eyes of a schizophrenic patient, Chief Bromden. This novel is set around the 1950’s in a mental asylum in Oregon. Besides the plot of the story, Kesey also manages to illustrate a realistic 1950’s mental hospital. The facilities

America has made leaps and bounds to provide humane treatment to aid those in need. The most famous “mental” asylum, which is now known as a psychiatric or mental hospital, would most likely be the Bethlem Royal Hospital in England. Opening its doors to mentally ill patients back in the late 1300s, it’s famous for its

care in Ontario. Although it can be assumed that the legislation applies to all mental health services and supports (Schizophrenic Society of Ontario, 2013), the laws described in the Mental Health Act (“MHA”) apply only to psychiatric units in hospitals, and specialized psychiatric facilities within the province (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health [CAMH], 2012), and to the patients who are under observation, care or treatment in these facilities or under a community treatment order (Mental Health

recent American history one could be civilly committed to a psychiatric placement without legal intervention. Prior to the 1970s persons with mental illness were often subject to gross negligence when they were committed to a psychiatric placement. Furthermore, individuals who were committed to these institutions lost their civil rights. Before the 1950s persons in the United States of America could be held without legal jurisdiction in psychiatric asylums. The 1950s had some changes to these laws. However

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which replaced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the year 2015 is a fifteen (15) year long-term plan geared towards poverty eradication, protection of the planet and ensuring global prosperity. In all, the SDGs have seventeen (17) specific targets to be achieved by 20301. Notable among these goals is the SDG3 which seeks to promote healthy lifestyles and ensure well-being for all persons across the life span. Basically, this goal (SDG3) seeks to achieve

Although the documentary was filmed more than 15 years ago, it reminded me of the time when I volunteered at the Metropolitan State Hospital a few years ago. In particular, the building that appeared in the documentary gave off cold, depressive, eerie feelings through the screen, and I vividly recall how eerie I felt each time I stepped into the old Metropolitan building. I used to wonder how these patients with mental illness could be successfully treated and be socially adjusted behind the iron-barred

Disabled This psychological analysis will define the necessity of home care for mentally disabled persons for long-term term treatment and family-based outpatient treatment for the individual. The historical examples of Bethlem Hospital and Charcot’s Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital define the abuses and “freak show” environment that did very little to house, treat, and car for the mentally disabled through large-scale institutional care. In fact, the neglect and mismanagement of these institutions set a