We're All Mad Here

When it comes to seniors and mental health treatment, society generally accepts that the older crowd are against it. They think it’s shameful or it’s witchcraft, right? WRONG! But, if people of a certain age are open to treatment, why aren’t they getting it?

In the early 1990s, Edward Gingerich was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and as an Amish man, was not allowed to treat it with medication. But after toe massages and thrice-daily molasses drinks didn’t work, he was finally allowed to take some. It worked like a charm, but the second he told his bishop he didn’t want to take them anymore, they supported him, a pattern that would continue even after he committed murder.

Rachel talks about how she made the decision to go on medication for her anxiety and depression. She also rips SSRI Stories (dot) com a new one.

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The Urban Asylum at Dalldorf was built in 1880s Berlin and was a comparatively good facility to be at. In 1920, a young woman was admitted who refused to reveal her identity for two whole years. The staff called her Miss Unknown. When she finally started talking, a rumor spread that Miss Unknown was actually one of the Romanov daughters who had survived the murders of the Tsar of Russia and his family. Checked out of Dalldorf and housed by supporters, “Anna”, as she now called herself, was questioned by friends and family of the Romanovs who were determined to get the truth out of her- was she an imposter, or their lost Anastasia?

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In 1973, Dr David Rosehan gathered a group of colleagues and friends to pull a Nellie Bly. They got themselves admitted to 12 different psych wards in 5 different cities to observe what life was like there. It wasn’t pretty. Hospital personnel were miffed after Dr Rosenhan published his study two years later and challenged him to try it again, because this time, they were ready.