The Delusional Misconception of Asylums

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with time in many different aspects, it was as if society's way of viewing mental health was not in any way evolving for the better, but remained the same or worsened.
Before we got to chapter 15 in our Introduction to Psychology class, I had some knowledge of how inhumanely people with mental illness had been treated. Since I was a little girl, my mom and I used to watch movies and Netflix series until dawn. We especially enjoyed watching movies and series that would teach us about history. From all the movies and series we have watched, there have been many series where asylums were portrayed as very inhumane and cruel places. What always caught my attention was that mentally ill patients in those facilities were portrayed as lunatics who could bring harm to others; such assumptions gave these facilities the right to treat mentally ill people in such harmful ways. Growing up, I had this dark and scary perception of mentally ill patients and especially about psychiatric ...

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