Lost in a insane asylum
By: Layne sweat Where did they go… I hope they know, know where I am and they are cause this time it went too far. They’re probably just messing around just like they always do. They just run and hide when i’m not paying attention and then they pop out and scare me. I kept on walking silently as I was scared out of my mind. Knowing in the next 10 steps I took I would be running for my life because I was so scared. Maybe I would be actually running from something else not my friends? I began to wonder if my friends really ditched me or if they were being held a knife against there throat so they wouldn’t speak. Then the next step I heard screaming of my friend in the room behind me. I jumped a little but I didn’t
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Jack exploded through the whole which pushed Cayden out, And we were safe like money in a lock couldn’t get reached until some bright lights blinded us and we fell. Bet you couldn’t guess who that was. The cops were right there and we were in some trouble. He was a nice cop and probably the only one that would believe the story. He dropped us off at Jacks and we were in huge trouble everyone went home and it was a bad night for all of us. The next day at school we were quieter than a mouse trying to get cheese. We decided to never talk about that day again until we were all alone with each other where nobody could hear. So we were and we started walking towards the pond so we could be alone and the we saw them the clown looking things with deformed faces. Then we ran to the carnival the was going on. And then everyone started screaming at the north end of it we saw some spray going up in the air and then the lights went black as night and we hid in the house of mirrors. There was a crack in the door so we watched through that and saw light flashing and they were taking selfies with the people. We saw someone forehead as big as the eiffel tower. They were screaming “NOW YOU'RE LIKE US, NOW YOU'RE LIKE US, NOW YOU'RE LIKE US”.Then we knew that
I am born 1835 and am a physician and a superintendent from the Toronto Lunatic Asylum. I have had 10 years of the treatment of the insane. When I had encountered Riel, he imagined that he would go to Saskatchewan and he would gather such a big force so that he would become the monarch of Saskatchewan. I think that no sane man would think of such things. He had travelled between Ottawa and The United States as well as knowing the powers of Britain. For him to think that he would be able to train a successful army out of untrained Saskatchewan people as well as believing that he would divide the country into seven divisions would not be normal with a man with this understanding. He also is a Roman Catholic and among them, he went among endeavoring to conciliate them to get them educated on the schemes that he had and says that he wants to dispose the pope.
In the memoir ‘Night’ ,insanity plays a major role through various characters, and relates to the motif of prophecy and to the Holocaust itself.
The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness is an insightful book which revolves around Lori Schiller, who at age 17 started her downward spiral into psychosis induced by schizophrenia, and subsequently recovering enough by her early thirties to regain control over her life. The book is a culmination of Lori’s experiences and those close to her during her treatment. In her note to the reader, Lori explains that the variation of ‘voices’ in the book is to give an accurate recollection of her life since her illness and subsequent treatment distorted her memories. Lori and her family’s experiences progress in a mostly linear progression from before the schizophrenia appeared with her slowly loosing independence as the schizophrenia began to reign out of control. The experiences in the book revolve around mental hospitals, healthcare workers, as well as societal stigmas from both her family and acquaintances that Lori and her family encountered about mental illnesses.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a novel by Ken Kesey, is the telling of the inner workings of a mental asylum told by the view of one of the patients. Bromden, the narrator who is seemingly deaf and mute, begins the story with warning the reader that he is not a reliable source before he dives into the past to tell of the mayhem that Randall McMurphy brings to the mental institute with his arrival. McMurphy takes the asylum by storm with his masculinity in a corporation ran by an effeminate woman, Big Nurse Ratched. The longer McMurphy stays, the more the patients become individuals rather than a part of the machine of the
Insanity is developed around through the story of “Night.” People were becoming crazy when they fighted for the food , loosing faith to God and nocturnal silence.
The treatment of the insane inmates inspired her to start a reform movement, calling for the improved treatment of the mentally insane along with establishment of mental hospitals. Two years passed between the time she visited the East Cambridge Jail and her first appeal on behalf of the indignant insane. During these two years Dorothea did something that many women at the time would not have done, she went inside a multitude of jails to gather the proper resources for her argument. After carefully documenting her findings she report on the inhuman treatment regarding the insane in The Memorial to the Massachusetts Legislator. Dorothea’s documentation of the insane is similar to that of an academic research paper with an argument, support,
When watching, “Alice in Wonderland” as a child of course I didn’t know what Schizophrenia was, therefore I didn’t recognize or look for this in the character of Alice. After doing research and re-watching the film, it became clearer to me that Alice does in fact show symptoms of Schizophrenia.
In his book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey compares the patients of the mental hospital to machines in order to illustrate the absence of humanity they face in their treatments. Kesey, through the narrator, compares the patients quite literally to machines when he says, “most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can’t be repaired” (16). The language of this quotes plainly connects the patients to broken machines, and in doing so, removes their humanity. In particular, the patients having “flaws inside that can’t be repaired” implies that their individual illnesses and daily struggles are faults of their own, and do not require specialized care. This comparison drawn between patients and machines reveals the root of the
Traditions typically can be described as noble and based on morality. There are many benefits to following and keeping traditions, and traditions generally survive through generations because they bring a community together and are a proud part of a community’s identity. Through time, traditions and cultural norms change as beliefs change, and sometimes they can stray away from their moral foundations and become dangerous. When this happens, younger, innocent generations are at danger of blindly adopting these toxic traditions.
In 1973, psychologist David Rosenhan published “On Being Sane in Insane Places” which documents the results of studies he and his confederates conducted at 12 different psychiatric hospitals across the United States. The studies were an examination into the reliability of psychiatric diagnosis methods. Rosenhan’s research focused on testing the hypothesis of whether or not psychiatrists and medical staff can distinguish the sane from the insane and if the characteristics that lead to diagnoses relate more to the patient or to the environment and context in which they’re being assessed. (Rosenhan, 1973) The study was divided into two main parts. Participant observations and comparative information studies were noted as well as they gave valuable insight into the treatment of psychiatric patients, conditions in psychiatric hospitals, and the effect that diagnostic labels had on how patients were perceived by staff. Ultimately, the study discovered that psychiatrists could not reliably distinguish the sane from the insane and insight was gained into how diagnostic labels and environmental context play a strong role in the perception of behavior.
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Beowulf begins with a history of the great Danish King Scyld (whose funeral is described in the Prologue). King Hrothgar, Scyld's great-grandson, is well loved by his people and successful in war. He builds a lavish hall, called Heorot, to house his vast army, and when the hall is finished, the Danish warriors gather under its roof to celebrate.
Lu Xun’s story “Diary of a Madman” serves to demonstrate his discontent with traditional Chinese cultural, not only by the fact that it clearly addresses the incidence of cannibalism that is believed to have occurred but also symbolizes the oppressive nature of Confucian principles.Lu Xun’s madman has the ability to recognize the oppressive elements of Chinese Confucian culture serves to mock established but out-dated traditional scholarship and symbolizes the greater wisdom of cultural reform, especially as it is advanced by modern intellectuals of the period.