Mental Health In The 1800s

In the 1800s people with mental illness were thought to be insane. Patients were placed inside institutes similar to a prison they were beaten and abused as a way of trying to cure them. Some families would try and take care of their ill family member(s) to avoid treatment at an institution. Though workers of the institute had tried to keep the ways of treatment secretive; many people did not know of the treatment in Mental institutes and had been curious about what it was like for those inside of institute conditions, treatments, etc. There are a few significant figures that had played major roles in shaping how Mental health is treated for over a century. In the 1840s a woman by the name of Dorothy Dix had become fond of researching
She stayed in the Institute on a count of 10 days and had written her observations of what she and others had experienced. Of these observations included descriptions of things such as ice-cold showers/baths, starvation, Death bath scalding, beatings, boxing in wooden cages, simulated drowning continuously pouring water onto a woman's face, etc. Once Bly had been released from the Asylum she had published all her findings in the New York newspaper titled, World, this exposition had been a major success. There was a large scale investigation of Blackwell along with other NY institutes. Which had lead to improvement of the institutes within the state. Moreover, in 1887 Bly journal entries had been published as a book Ten days in a Mad-House by Ian L. Munro because women were not allowed to publish a book on her own at this time. These are just some of the few contributors to how Mental health treatment is today. With the development of new and advancing technology Scientist continue to research and make new discoveries in less time than what it would have taken a century ago. Those baby steps in the findings pertaining to mental illness have led to the development of proper treatment and care in Mental