• The Madhouses Act 1774 was the first legislation in the United Kingdom addressing mental health.
• The County Asylums Act 1808 permitted, but did not compel, Justices of the Peace to provide establishments for the care of "pauper lunatics", so that they could be removed from workhouses and prisons.
• The Lunacy Act 1845 established the Board of Commissioners in Lunacy. Justices were forced to build lunatic asylums financed by the local rates.[1]
There is this pestilence making our once healthy mental health system moribund- the use of restraints on mental health patients is the fulcrum for the system to survive. The wager between reasonable force and ill intent towards lunatics.
Ask yourself this- how would you deal the minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic?
According to an investigation in 2018, the NHS is struggling to cope with rising demand for mental health care, with a shortage of beds, bed-blocking, the use of indefinite sections, patients facing long delays in accessing treatment, and receiving inadequate care when they do.
The courts will convict you to an indefinite sentence by the testimony of a psychiatrist- and the psychiatrist’s testimony is put together by lots of daily note entries from staff members that work alongside their patients. Due to the complexity of the nature and degree of the said disorder you supposedly have? (which is subject to change by other psychiatrists).
Now in the grips of the system- everything will be decided out of good faith for your betterment based on mendacious daily note entries that always label you to be the instigator/perpetrator. Conscientious objecting will only lead to less freedoms and will be met with brute force by the ward staff just for them to administer prescribed medication intermuscular to stop you from brutalizing others.
(there’s something not quite right with that.)
The posturing of staff - from HCAs and nurses on the wards and from doctors at tribunals is a form of receiving inadequate care.
Let me break it down for you, in a 24-hour period: you’re in a secure hospital and somewhere placed on the ward is a notice board. On this notice board should be the initials of the patients and what staff member is allocated to you for their shift.
You may or may not get on with the staff member you’ve been allocated to turn to if you have any concerns or need to move around the building. Anyway, the reason for a staff member to be assigned to you and two or three others also- is so you can build a rapport as so that staff member can coherently articulate your daily experiences to the treating psychiatrist. Secondly, the daily stimulation of a rational conversation with a staff member and not a lunatic, will help improve recovery to where the patient can become more congruent with the norms of society, i.e. hold a conversation without psychosis setting in.
During ‘staff protected time’ the staff member will write their daily note entry about your day through their eyes (which you don’t get to read), and sometimes if they remember they will ask you for your views on your day, and this will be added to the daily entry- ready and waiting for the treating psychiatrist to read later which will help them decide your immediate future. If you are not asked for your views of your day- then the treating psychiatrist will assume that you were asked and that you declined to comment.
Failure to work alongside staff inside these secure facilities means your note entries will have malicious content to its reading furthering your stay and more ill treatment as means of revenge, letting you know that staff are to be revered and not harassed throughout their shift. Due to the nature of a secure hospital- minor and insignificant tasks become a battle ground when a staff member is having a stressful day.
To best describe the sort of stress a staff member is under daily is like trying to push water up a slope with a rake.
We are connected to our environment like animals are to their natural environment- to be free.
Humans in captivity are just like animals kept in captivity- if you don’t get the conditions right inside the zoos, the animals start behaving in a wacky way. There have been studies done with laboratory animals showing their feeding is abnormal. Sometimes they stop eating and sometimes they eat excessively.
Although this rationality for disturbances in behaviour is not attributed to environmental impacts or a change in circumstance- no; this is due to a mental disorder that only a psychiatrist can diagnose and treat. In most cases these apparent disorders are life enduring, meaning that the person whom gave this diagnosis is in work and making money from this unenviable plight; and secure units are just places turning up large profits, plus giving psychiatry some lab rats to help find a cure whilst the patients get experimented on in privacy due to the privacy laws that surround secure hospitals for lunatics.
…but ask yourself this- is finding a cure a danger to the status quo? Because as things stand, I don’t think the people working for the system (which is in the hundreds of thousands) can afford to be on the breadline at all. For them it’s best to prevent than it is to cure- and by preventing, I mean it’s in the public’s best interest if many mental health professionals take lead and care of the criminally insane. Wherever has it been more transparent than the above being a huge conflict of interest with a hint of schadenfreude.
Hell- battery hens were emancipated to free-range and isn’t it about time the mentally ill were treated with a bit more dignity and compassion by treating a human in need the way yourself would like to be treated when in need. But sadly- God gave mankind free-will to enslave, if not the mentally ill today; then it’ll be some poor schmuk tomorrow.