Insane Asylums In The 20th Century

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“Insane asylums” were never really the happiest places. Before the late 20th century, people could be listed as mentally insane and sent to a psychiatric institution for the simplest of things, and those were sent to these “hospitals” were treated horribly. Patients were placed in bathtubs filled to the brim with boiling water, had parts of their brain removed, and numerous other ways were used to essentially torture these people. Near the middle of the 20th century, a lot of these institutions were abandoned and forgotten, and they were eventually replaced by more modern and humane psychiatric hospitals. Some say the tortured and angry souls of the people who lost their lives in these buildings still haunt them. I know it’s true because I have been in the …show more content…

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