In 2001 an award-winning filmmaker, Maryann De Leo, directed a documentary called Bellevue: Inside Out. Bellevue hospital in New York City is one of the country’s most famous psychiatric institutions, where over 7,000 patients are brought in and treated per year. Through this documentary you get to know a couple of the patients at the time of filming, and you get to see how they are treated. Majority of the patients are brought in by the police in handcuffs and showing aggressive behavior. All of the patients are medicated in some way, which isn’t something I entirely agree with. While watching I was amazed as to how quickly the doctors rambled off all these medications and just on the stop decided to give to each patient. A couple questions
