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The Overlooked Mental Health Crisis: Breaking the Chains
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash Tied up with the overlooked mental health crisis is the growing concern of tossing aside mental health and dismissing its impact on many individuals. It's about time we continue to address and discuss this problem to raise awareness...
Horrors Of An Asylum: The History and Evolution of Asylums
Photo by Jon Butterworth on Unsplash Before the evolution of asylums into the mental health hospitals and clinics we have today, being institutionalised for being mentally ill or unable to function in society meant being confined to an asylum. For centuries, people...
Gritting Your Teeth & Such: Mental Healthcare in the Far Past
Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko Asylum Scandals by Patricia Lubeck focuses on the many horrors and tragedies that occurred inside some specific asylums in the past. Reading the madness that went inside those walls, you'd be infinitely glad that there have been...
The Dual Reality of Asylums: A Sanctuary or a Prison?
Photo by Sean Robertson on Unsplash The reality of asylums has long been a gripping subject of debate - are they places of refuge, a sanctuary perhaps, or institutions of confinement or what we consider as a prison? What really goes behind the asylum walls? In the...
Top 12 Rarest Mental Disorders: Behind the Asylum Walls
Photo by MART PRODUCTION It's quite scary yet intriguing how the mind works. While tons of research have gone into the human brain, the eccentricity and unpredictability of the mind with how it processes thoughts and evokes behavior does not fail to astound. You'll...
Haunted Insane Asylums Worldwide: Behind the Asylum Walls
Explore five of the most haunted insane asylums worldwide, which have captured the imagination of ghost hunters and history enthusiasts alike. Around the world, countless haunted insane asylums, mostly abandoned, continue to tell their stories. From ghostly...
Treatments and Torture Procedures: Medieval Medical Practices
Various sources influenced medieval medical practices, including ancient theories, religious beliefs, and limited understanding. This article delves into the different treatments and torturous procedures employed in the name of healing during the Middle Ages. The...
The Horrors of the Asylum: Treatments and Torture Procedures
Photo by SHVETS production The dark and sordid history of asylums will always be a heavy reminder of what happens when good intentions are ultimately not realized. There's no justification for what the asylum system became. There should be no forgiveness of the...
Religion and Mental Illness – A Misunderstood Pair
Photo by Isabella Fischer In the popular imagination, the mental asylum is a popular setting for horror films, ghost stories, and psychological thrillers. Any story of abuse torture corruption and murder would find itself quite at home in places that have historically...
Challenges of Living With Mental Illness: Facing Obscurity
Photo by twentyonekoalas on Unsplash Living with mental illness comprises numerous challenges that individuals have to face and handle. It's never an easy path to undertake, especially with the grind of daily life accompanied by pressure from society. These challenges...
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