-Real life situations
-Precis
For this project, I focused on the history of mental institutions. The reason why I choose this is because the mental institutions is not a form of caring but to make patients feel they are not part of the "normal society". This relates to the dying/sick unit because in hospitals its not about the personal feeling but just getting the job done. I’m also reading the book One flew over the cuckoo's Nest. This book demonstrates how a patient feels about being the mental institutions. He feels isolation and the nurse’s treats him like he is not smart. In hospitals people die every day, the room is cleaned as if they never had a person there. They don’t hold memories of the patients but move on; in mental hospitals they keep the patient trap and treat them not "normal".
The History of Mental Illness
1st Revolution: Hospitalization.
2nd Revolution: Moral Management.
3rd Revolution: Society Cooperation & Interaction.
2nd Revolution: Moral Management.
3rd Revolution: Society Cooperation & Interaction.
The Colonial American society referred to those suffering from mental illnesses as ‘lunatics” which interestingly enough was derived from the root word lunar meaning, “moon.” Through astrological reasoning it was believed that insanity was caused by a full moon at the time of a baby’s birth or a baby sleeping under the light of a full moon. Colonists declared these lunatics possessed by the devil, and usually they were removed from society and locked away.
during these times people believed that certain way is to solve this is problem is to isolate the person and bring them to a cerain "clamness"
Such medical procedures involved submerging patients in ice baths until they lost consciousness or executing a massive shock to the brain. Means to expel crisis from the patient included inducing vomiting and the notorious “bleeding” practice. The bleeding
practice entailed draining the bad blood from the individual, unfortunately this inhumane practice normally resulted in death or the need for lifelong care; at best the odds were one in three that this procedure would actually lead to an improvement in the patient’s health. Although the colonial era’s methods of handling the mentally ill and medical procedures could be considered barbaric by present- day standards, the vast majority of people were content because the lunatics were no longer visible in society.If a person seems not normal, keep them form the socitey to push them away, still done in mental instutations today.
Patients that seemed "Not Normal" experimental...
The original lobotomy was a medical procedure where the neural passages from the front of the brain are surgically separated from those in the back of the brain. The common result of this procedure was the patient forgetting their depressing or discouraging feelings or tendencies. This was a very delicate, time-consuming procedure that required great skill and training from the practicing surgeons. Because the lobotomy appeared to effectively alter the mental health of patients, great effort was invested into developing a more practical procedure with similar desired results.
To the satisfaction of his peers and the mental health community, Walter J. Freeman developed the trans- orbital lobotomy. This new medical procedure could be performed quickly and required limited after- care for the patient. The procedure was performed as follows:
-To induce sedation, inflict two quick shocks to the head.Freeman and the trans-orbital lobotomy stirred up harsh criticism from those who learned of his flamboyant methodology. Due to the number of complications and deaths that resulted from the procedure, it was referred to as “psychic mercy killing” and “euthanasia of the mind.” This was by far mental health care’s darkest hour.
-Roll back one of the patients’ eyelids.
-Insert a device, 2/3 the size of a pencil, through the upper eyelid into the patients’ head.
-Guided by the markings indicating depth, tap the device with a hammer into the patients’ head/ frontal lobe.
-After the appropriate depth is achieved, manipulate the device back and forth in a swiping motion within the patient’s head.
Articles patients being mistreated
NZ Herald
June 21 2004
Abuse complaints 'should be believed'
by Martin Johnston
Former mental hospital Kingseat is one of the institutions where abuse has been alleged.
June 21 2004
Abuse complaints 'should be believed'
by Martin Johnston
Former mental hospital Kingseat is one of the institutions where abuse has been alleged.
He said a nurse punched a brain-damaged young man who yelled in pain when the nurse shaved him with a blunt blade razor. It appeared the nurse used this razor, rather than the electric one preferred by the patient, to provoke a reaction.
"The purpose of this violence seemed to be the pleasure of the nurse inflicting it," Mr Ralls said. He reported it and was told it was under control, but he saw it happen again.
Inquiries galore
Inquiries galore
* More than 16 inquiries were held into Auckland mental hospitals between 1971 and the landmark 1988 Mason Report.
* Investigators repeatedly lamented the failure of the then-Auckland Hospital Board to improve treatment and staff numbers at Oakley.
* The 1983 Gallen Report on Oakley gave credence to at least one claim of assault by staff, but found none passed the criminal-court test of proof beyond reasonable doubt.
* The report also criticised the overuse of drugs and solitary confinement.
Isolation
This is where isolation occurs with them but our society does make it so that they won’t feel isolation, but help them build a community that best fits the person (self-help groups) where the people accepted their stigma. We help them build a community that best fits the person (self-help groups) the people who accepted their stigma. “Then there are the huddle-together , self-help clubs formed by the divorced, the age , the obese, the physically handicapped, the ileostomied and colostomied . There are residential clubs, voluntary to varying degrees, formed for the ex-alcoholic and the ex-addict (.pg22). Stigma is something that everyone feels, but there a those with a particular stigma, those who are given the stigma make the self-helps groups and create the word “we” or “our people” . Those who find the stigma they feel tend to be self-cautions and form a comfort zone where it’s not just a group of people that involves them but people they can build a similar relation with.
One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey
Précis: This book is about a patient name Mcmurphy and his life in the mental institution, he actually thought that will be better than going to jail. After a couple days in the mental hospital, he realized going to jail would have been better. In this book he experience, having friends he never thought of and living a life that was unexpected.
Published: 1987
1 “.It’s still hard for me to have clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen”(pg18) The reason why I like this quote, because it explains that the nurse can't define him because they don’t know his real life situation. What happened in his life should not define him as a mental person.
2. McMurphy tells Harding that the meeting was a “pecking party”—the men acted like a bunch of chickens pecking at another chicken’s wound. He warns them that a pecking party can wipe out the whole flock( 35) The reason why I like this quote, is because this explains that in the mental hospital they treat the patients as though they got problems instead of helping them it becomes a" pecking party" the people with all the problems and the nurses are not help because they are in the movement of treating them not "normal"
3. “They are tall and sharp and bony and their faces are chipped into expressions that never change, like flint arrowheads. Their eyes come to points. If you brush against their hair it rasps the hide right off you” (32) I think this quote means that, the nurses walk around with no emotion and makes the patient feel scared instead having a comforting nurse it becomes uncomfortable and scary for them.
This makes it difficult to continue what is best for this person. Or how can we shape the society into making an individual feel “normal” in their life, which im not sure is possible because in these institutions they make patients feel scared and not wanted. They drug and brain wash their minds, the patients “peck” and the nurses create the discomfort and let patients feel not “normal”
http://www.toddlertime.com/advocacy/hospitals/Asylum/history-asylum.htm
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7556020/
http://www.mcrh.org/Teen-Health/61132.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/nyregion/02hosp.html
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