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Mental Illness

  • Mental Illness, during this time was believed that the patients were possessed or had a curse on them from witchcraft, but really it was just in their heads, and mental illness was something they just could not overcome, and some people thought that the they could not be fixed or treated.

Other treatments used

  • Other treatments that were used at this time were very odd and used wrongly by the attendants. Some of the treatments were Bloodletting, leeches, solitary confinement, straight-jackets, bland or meager diets, restraints, lobotomies, etc..
  • Hearing some of those treatments that they used to do to the patients sounds terrible and disgusting but back then they would some what work and have progress, but come to find out the treatments just made some of the violent and angered patients more violent and angry. It didn't come til the 1950's that some asylums started using drugs to help calm down the patients.

Treatments

  • It took some years for the first psychiatric treatments to come into place, the first were General Paralysis for the insane, which was basically caused by Syphilis, with Malaria infected mosquitoes. Before the treatments were used the attendants would try to keep the patients as busy as possible because they had no knowledge of the psychiatric conditions or how to treat them, and when the need came about, then restraint was employed.

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Asylums in the Victorian Period

Life in the asylum

  • The asylums in the Victorian period are one of the most historic places on earth because there was just so much crazy stuff and insane people in there and during that time it was dark and demented.

Works Cited

  • Life in the asylum was not an easy way of living it was very hard. One of the most notable living conditions for the patients was total segregation of the sexes, the patients slept in same sex wards. The wards would have up to 50 patients per ward. During that time the patients would be kept on high watch by security, they would be confined, if a patient escaped the attendants were fined for every patient that escaped. Throughout the patients life they would be encouraged to work and undertake recreation, the males to work on the farms and females would work in laundry. Although the patients that were easily angered, suicidal, and violent were kept on maximum security because they were more high risk to the lives of other patients and attendants.
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Asylums and Mental illnesses in the Victorian Period By : Zeke Guzman

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