Being mentally challenged in the 1930’s
Today, many of our mentally challenged people are treated with respect and taken care of fairly well. As our technology begins to grow, it allowed many doctors the equipment which would help them better understanding the mentally challenged humans. Expanding our knowledge on the mentally challenged has allowed us to create new innovations such as medicines, care, and new job opportunities to spread with these people.
What was it like for mentally challenged people in the 1930’s? Were they receiving the proper care? How have our services and medicines grown to allow the mentally challenged to receive the extra help they deserve? Back in the 1930’s, the mentally challenged people were not treated …show more content…
Killing and mistreating them was never the answer for those people, but back then they made it the solutions because they knew no other way to help or stop the things that were going on in their minds. It was all torture or killing their brains from the inside to get control over them, but slowly they learned it was things and medications that they had that helped them and slowed them down without shocking there bodies to slow down and slowly killing more brain cells.
In conclusion due to the new advanced technology that had been developed today the mentally ill have much better care than back in the 1930’s. They didn’t have the proper knowledge to care for the mentally ill. The professionals back in the 1930’s were uneducated, so they didn't have much of an option except to put them in cages and lock them in jail. This seemed to be the only way to get them under control. Another way that they were controlled was to put them to work. Those seemed to be the two options they had. Now we have all the resources, worker, and anything needed to get them the proper help they