Mental Asylums

Intro:
Mental Asylums have the connotation of being spooky and weird but there really is so much more to them - they help people. There is a mental illness called Schizophrenia and it causes people to hallucinate and “hear” different people who don’t actually exist. Europeans and Americans had different types of mental homes that were ran with different mindsets but overall the european homes were better for people with schizophrenia in the 1800s and it is important that the patients were taken care of well, because they are important and deserve a better life.
Background:
For the most part, people with mental illnesses were only of a concern when they threatened the public. Mental homes grew over the years, for in 1820 only one state had an institution, but by the time of the civil war almost every state had at least one.
Patients were treated more nicely and the doctors were more sympathizing. No torture. While many American mental asylums resolved to torture and pain to “treat” schizophrenic patients, European mental asylums believed in more civilized forms of helping the sick. Americans would beat the patients with rods and use physical restraints. Psychologists. In some ways though, American asylums were good in that they had scientists working on ways to cure of mental illness not just keeping the patients there until they die. Protests. People in America would protest the bad quality of mental homes and how they wanted them to change. At one point they became better but then they were to hard to maintain so they resumed to their original poorer state. Meanwhile, people didn’t protest European asylums because there was no need to, and they had good medical techniques. In conclusion, European mental homes had better medical techniques because they cared more about their patients and although the Americans also attempted to find a cure, the Europeans didn’t use much torture as they did