Psychiatric hospital

The study guide describes Emily Mann, the playwright behind Mrs. Packard, as someone who provides a voice for the voiceless, and I’m excited about that. Theatre has the potential to shed light on important subjects, and it’s nice to see an artist using that potential to educate people. I have high hopes for the social context of this production; my horizon of expectations is definitely geared toward a feminist play. It’s so rare (in my experience, at least) to have a play written by a woman and…

Blanche’s Mental Health In the late 1940’s mental illness was a big thing. Some people didn’t know how to deal with it at the time, and some were just sent to mental hospitals for help. In Tennessee William 's, A Streetcar Named Desire, one of his main characters showed signs of a mental illness. Blanche Dubois is dealing with signs of a mental illness, that is from her traumatizing past. Blanche Dubois had a lot of things going on, this could be the reason why she acts like she does. After…

entertaining way to learn a lesson or about a specific time in history. Non-fiction offers the student a factual lesson in the form of a story. In the fictional novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, a young girl named Deborah is taken to a mental hospital for her schizophrenia by her parents. Deborah at the time is unaware she has a mental illness, she believes she was given a special power to enter into a different world, Yr. Throughout the novel, Deborah struggles to find what is real ad…

Although some individuals believe that funding mental institutions is not worth the time, money, and effort such a project would require, I believe that funding these institutions, bringing in the troubled and mentally ill people found in jails and hospitals, and then releasing them into reality when they are found to be adequately healthy would be a process that is highly beneficial to not just these mentally ill patients, but to society as a whole. Our…

“I just want to kill myself!” said the annoyed college student. “Why are you so moody today, are you bipolar?” said the over-dramatic friend. “You need to smile more often or you won’t make any friends,” said the oblivious mother. Walking around a college campus one hears remarks that have become a normality to say, but are offensive to other people. When people joke about killing themselves or throw around terms such as bipolar or depressed they do not realize they are supporting the mental…

Every day is the same to you; you wake up, read the paper, and drink your coffee. You work at the East Cambridge Prison, where you keep the inmates in order by whipping them, chaining them up, and by not giving them food. You know that the conditions are wrong and inhumane, but it’s a well-paying job. You don’t speak out because you’re worried about your family and three kids at home who need to be fed. Stories like these occurred in prisons and mental institutions all around the world. The…

During the Victorian Era, there was a change in the views towards mental illness as people began to realize the conditions and treatments towards patients of the mental institutions. Jane Eyre follows the story of a girl who is living through the social discriminations of the Victorian Era and observes the way the mentally ill were treated. In most cases, judging someone’s mental health was closely related to gender and where they stood on the social scale. Charlotte Bronte’s accurate yet…

Years later, I was a journalist in London when I was asked to report on a case about a criminal mental patient, Bryan, who was petitioning to get released. So I caught a train to Broadmoor – London’s premier mental institution for the criminally insane. I began to yawn uncontrollably on the way there, which apparently is what dogs do when anxious - they yawn uncontrollably. Once I arrived, the staff took me through gate after gate until, eventually, we got to the wellness center – the place…

In the novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest a loud and boisterous man by the name of Randall Patrick McMurphy in an attempt to cheat the system is committed to a mental institution. What he does not know is that once he is committed only the head nurse can let him leave. After McMurphy realizes this he confirms this causes one of the patients named Cheswick to commit suicide. Almost immediately after Cheswick’s suicide McMurphy begins to upset the established order of Nurse Ratched and over…

The news stories about those being mistreated in asylums are not as public or as rampant as they were fifty years ago either. Conditions in some asylums are still a violation of human rights. Many patients do not have beds due to a lack of funding. They also live in places with feces covering the walls and mice infestations. They are basically living in their own excrement along with other vermin. The people that were released from the asylums that were shut down did not have proper care or…