Before the invention of antidepressants and mental health care, how did society treat the mentally ill people?!


Question: Before the invention of antidepressants and mental health care, how did society treat the mentally ill people.?
Answers:
All too often with tranquilizers and then by putting them in institution's for the mentally ill. In my area alone we had three mental facilities. We now have one which is a quarter of the size that it used to be. Many house wives were labeled crazy or to have had "nervous brake downs".
Men as well, but not as often. Health Question & Answer

Asylums, electric shock treatment, frontal lobotomies - it wasn't a very pretty time for the insane.Health Question & Answer

Cruelly. They were put in repulsive asylums and treated horribly. Mental illness is still kept in the closet, though. No one wants to know you're seeing a psych.Health Question & Answer

Depends how long ago you mean. Ages back they were thought to be demons and were killed or exorcised. but in the near past they were just wrapped up in cotton wool and sort of stayed away from society.Health Question & Answer

they were called witch.

or locked in the basement like the novel by emily bronte. something heights.Health Question & Answer

usually, they locked them up in insane asylums.Health Question & Answer

they were locked up or given horrible treatments like shock therapy etc. Health Question & Answer



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