![We have gone [24] days without an SI incident... What's that? Fuck. OK, reset the damn thing...](http://www.magnatag.com/img/pages/SWEimages/SWEcoverk.jpg "We have gone [24] days without an SI incident... What's that? Fuck. OK, reset the damn thing...")
So my mental 'days without SI' counter has ticked back over to zero. Bollocks. Oh well. I do have an interesting mental-health news item though, courtesy of la; I had meant to watch it when it was on Newsnight the other day, but that kind of fell through, so all my opinions are based on the article here. In a nutshell, it's the use of a Surrey mental asylum to hold typhoid patients in fairly horrific conditions, up until 1992 when the facility was closed.I suppose I should really be more shocked by this than I am, but I'm perfectly aware of the historical abuses of the psychiatric system (without being one of these nutcases who think that it's an inherently eeeeevil field). I suppose what makes this stand out is that it appears to have continued largely uninterrupted well into the 70s, with patients still there until the asylum's closure. I guess it became a forgotten corner of history, a mistake it was easier to bury than fix. Depressed yet? It's almost a community service I'm providing here.
Irreverent suggestion for musical accompaniment to this post: The Boy Least Likely To - Paper Cuts OR Nirvana - Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
2 comments:
[my two cents] I think what makes this case stand out is that these women had a physical rather than a mental illness. Of course, imprisoning people with mental health problems or just people we're not sure how to deal with and driving them insane is absolutely fine.[/my two cents]
Look at this exhibit of suitcases found in the attic of a New York insane asylum when it closed ten years ago. Most of the residents lived out the latter half of their lives and died there. Seeing their belongings from the "outside" is very sad.
Then look at funneh pictures of kittehs.
Wow la that's an incredible page. And very sad. If I had been around in the 1950s I'd have become a fixture at the local equivalent.
I think yes, a helping of cheeseburger is in order.
*waves at Teenage Misanthropy* - Hi, I surfed over here from Aethelred.
DeeDee Ramona (aka actionreplay)
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