I swear I was about to scroll past this thinking it was some sort of pysch-horror art or some witchy thing…and then I read the title. This is horrifying.
froznlolipop
If they weren’t suffering from mental illness before, they might after being locked up in a place like this.
Vlade-B
This is so fucking tragic. What they used to do back in the days to patients of all kind. Sometimes people didn’t even have any mental illnesses and still got put in for some backwards ideas of what is and isn’t normal. The horror’s they would do to these poor souls.
Vlade-B
Btw, is there more info about this picture?
alvinsharptone
She shouldn’t have done what she did I guess
PastyDoughboy
That learn you to stop… checks notes…being mentally ill.
Great_Gig_In_The_Sky
Well if that doesn’t cure them nothing will
/s
belhamster
So sad. As someone who has dealt with mental
Illness I am so grateful for how far we have come.
May we get to a point where all humans can get to quality compassionate mental healthcare. We’d all be better for it.
LongSong333
I don’t doubt the reality of that.
For some positive to counteract that negative, check out Dorothea Dix, who campaigned for humane treatment of the mentally ill.
> A woman stands in a narrow cell, her arms affixed to the wall in the attitude of the crucifixion, circa 1890. She is undergoing treatment for mental illness in 19th century Germany. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
a-rare-wombat
looks like some those horrible photos that came out of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
rainandshine7
Wow, this makes me really sad.
johndeer89
Did it help?
Mistah-S
For some extraordinary reason people back in the day thought that this kind of things would help the situation.
Brisan7
Probably for the devilish act of questioning her husband or something like that.
ry420fl
We have learned so much from this. Now, we just let them do drugs and set up tents on the street. That’s what progress looks like
JrWraith
Is this before, or after they gotten mentally ill?
N301CF
What the proper fuck.
Jaballbobobo
Did this shit ever work? Like how could you not tell this just makes it worse?
chingchongcheng84
This is incredibly sad
DiddyWop5
Not much has changed, we just strap you to a bed now 😟
antipho
do you have a source for this?
edit: getty images – mental patient in germany, 1890s.
lo_fi_ho
This would be a great black metal album cover
Admiral_Boombox
Asylums in the past really weren’t about treatment, they were about containment.
‘Treatment’ was done in church or very rarely by some experimental doctors, it took a long time before those saw results though.
These were the ‘lost causes’ that God did not allow to be murdered, but could also not be left to wander the streets. Being kind to them was seen as more or less unneccesary, they had supposedly lost all semblance of a mind anyway. So tie em up, feed them, hose them down so they don’t get sick and just leave them in a dark hole so society can move on.
![A patient is restrained in a mental institution in France in 1900 [990 x 1340]](https://i.redd.it/ks6qfdxtj0q41.jpg)
AlissonLeech
That looks like torture!
AssortedTachyons
I swear I was about to scroll past this thinking it was some sort of pysch-horror art or some witchy thing…and then I read the title. This is horrifying.
froznlolipop
If they weren’t suffering from mental illness before, they might after being locked up in a place like this.
Vlade-B
This is so fucking tragic. What they used to do back in the days to patients of all kind. Sometimes people didn’t even have any mental illnesses and still got put in for some backwards ideas of what is and isn’t normal. The horror’s they would do to these poor souls.
Vlade-B
Btw, is there more info about this picture?
alvinsharptone
She shouldn’t have done what she did I guess
PastyDoughboy
That learn you to stop… checks notes…being mentally ill.
Great_Gig_In_The_Sky
Well if that doesn’t cure them nothing will
/s
belhamster
So sad. As someone who has dealt with mental
Illness I am so grateful for how far we have come.
May we get to a point where all humans can get to quality compassionate mental healthcare. We’d all be better for it.
LongSong333
I don’t doubt the reality of that.
For some positive to counteract that negative, check out Dorothea Dix, who campaigned for humane treatment of the mentally ill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Dix
She should be much better known, especially in the US.
DigNitty
“Look She’s Getting Better”
-someone in 1900 France
RagnarBaratheon1998
This is why there are so many ghosts from the 1800s-1900s
mauimudpup
Im thinking this was staged photo of something they felt was done at the time.
InfiniteTie7
I’m sick to my stomach looking at this.
The_Egg_came_first
Source:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/woman-stands-in-a-narrow-cell-her-arms-affixed-to-the-wall-news-photo/51645486
> A woman stands in a narrow cell, her arms affixed to the wall in the attitude of the crucifixion, circa 1890. She is undergoing treatment for mental illness in 19th century Germany. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
a-rare-wombat
looks like some those horrible photos that came out of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
rainandshine7
Wow, this makes me really sad.
johndeer89
Did it help?
Mistah-S
For some extraordinary reason people back in the day thought that this kind of things would help the situation.
Brisan7
Probably for the devilish act of questioning her husband or something like that.
ry420fl
We have learned so much from this. Now, we just let them do drugs and set up tents on the street. That’s what progress looks like
JrWraith
Is this before, or after they gotten mentally ill?
N301CF
What the proper fuck.
Jaballbobobo
Did this shit ever work? Like how could you not tell this just makes it worse?
chingchongcheng84
This is incredibly sad
DiddyWop5
Not much has changed, we just strap you to a bed now 😟
antipho
do you have a source for this?
edit: getty images – mental patient in germany, 1890s.
lo_fi_ho
This would be a great black metal album cover
Admiral_Boombox
Asylums in the past really weren’t about treatment, they were about containment.
‘Treatment’ was done in church or very rarely by some experimental doctors, it took a long time before those saw results though.
These were the ‘lost causes’ that God did not allow to be murdered, but could also not be left to wander the streets. Being kind to them was seen as more or less unneccesary, they had supposedly lost all semblance of a mind anyway. So tie em up, feed them, hose them down so they don’t get sick and just leave them in a dark hole so society can move on.