Mantel Asylums Research Paper

Throughout the history of madness, there have been many social norms, cultural issues, and tools of social control that changed the outlook of what makes an individual insane? Is it the medication they receive or is the way they are treated in the asylum? Is there any type of moral treatment for these patients? Many can agree that mantel asylums are the reason that an individual become mad, individuals in mantel asylums are treated like animals. Moral treatment I can agree is the key to helping individuals in mantel asylums. Take example my mother a couple years ago was diagnosed with depression; it was a hard year for my mother. During that year my father was diagnosed with lung cancer he kept going to chemotherapy, the cancer
She was laying in bed in the dark, she wouldn’t eat, and she would pull her hair. She would take her anger out at me; she would just cry herself to sleep every night. I thought she was insane, I asked her if wants to go to therapy, that I would help her. However she refused, she was in denial she said, are you calling me crazy, I’m not crazy, and whom do you think you are calling me crazy. At this point I thought she was crazy so I treated her like a crazy person, no moral treatment. However me treated her like a crazy person only made thing worst for her she became more depressed. But I tried to help her again, this time I treated her as a child should treat her mother. I listened to her, I took her out for a walk, gave her hugs, made her food. I gave her the moral treatment she needed, treat her kindly not like a crazy person. Moral treatment helped her a lot, she became less depressed then she was
The Outsider by Nathanial Lachenmeyer in this story Charles the main character is diagnosed schizophrenia, his belief is that the CIA was watching him. It makes it even more difficult Charles son, he confuses his reality with his fathers. It is really hard on him, stressful in one scene in the book Charles sits in a coffee shop, and he’s talking to himself and orders the coffee. However the girl that serves him doesn’t judge him just goes along with him. That also makes him feel better more human; another scene in the story is when he goes in the bank. In the bank he shakes Charles’s hand everyday treated him like he’s a regulator person, a person without a mental illness. The fact that lady in the coffee shop treated Charles like a regular costumer, same with his banker kept Charles sane, in a way helped him. This is an example why moral treatment is important to a mentally disabled