Quote Originally Posted by Savanti
My mother refused to accept my mental state for a number of reason, one was "would the government take me a way from her, which is what they did while she was growing up. Her grandmother was often taken to the mental ward to be treated with shock therapy. Her parents refused to put in one of those places and she seem to maintain a certain level reasoning.
Now had she been put in one of these places for life, I'm sure she would have gotten worse, as what happened to her mother, which was the reason we moved back to my mother's hometown. Once we moved there her mother moved in with us till the day she died.
What I remember and what I was told about her, was that she was like the people in the movie. We went to see her and see would just sit and do nothing. When we took her out, slowly things changed and before long she was walking herself to the grocery store with her little cart.
Mental istitutions are just warehouses. They drug the hell out of them to keep them calm so no one has to do any work. No real research into helping them because big pharma can't make any money off cures, but they certainly make a bundle off of symptoms.