1. Dix’s values of the mentally ill impacted their treatment. In the United States she helped create more than 30 hospitals. She told people that individuals with mental disturbances could not be cured. Before this People didn’t care what happened to the mentally ill. They put them in prisons and some were kept in cages. In Europe she met with people and they built a new hospital for the mentally ill after they learned about what was happening to them.
2. Before Dorothea Dix changed the way mentally ill people were treated they were treated poorly. After she saw people being treated inhumanly she knew she needed to change it. She got people to build places for the mentally ill in 14 states and Europe. She also tried to get more than
2. Before Dorothea Dix changed the way mentally ill people were treated they were treated poorly. After she saw people being treated inhumanly she knew she needed to change it. She got people to build places for the mentally ill in 14 states and Europe. She also tried to get more than