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 The Mad House - OOC POSITIONS STILL OPEN THE MAD HOUSE PYRO EYE “Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy," - Janet Long A psychiatric hospital, also known as an asylum, is a hospital specializing in the treatment of serious mental illness, usually for relatively long-term inpatients. Psychiatric institutions vary widely in their goals and methods. Some hospitals may specialize only in short-term or outpatient therapy for low-risk patients. Others may specialize in the temporary or permanent care of residents who as a result of a psychological disorder, require routine assistance, treatment or a specialized and controlled environment. Patients are often admitted on a voluntary basis, but involuntary commitment is practiced when an individual may pose a significant danger to themselves or others. Ineffective treatments These treatments provided a fruitful environment for the popularity of quick-fix solutions,[13] like the eugenic compulsory sterilization programs undertaken in over 30 U.S. states (and, later, in Germany), which allowed institutions to discharge patients while still claiming to be serving the public interest. These new treatments of mental illness – which is now seen as a "defect", and likely a hereditary one – were seen less as therapeutic for the individual patient than as preventative for the society as a whole. From 1942 to 1947, conscientious objectors in the US assigned to psychiatric hospitals under Civilian Public Service exposed abuses throughout the psychiatric care system and were instrumental in reforms of the 1940s and 1950s. The CPS reformers were especially active at the Philadelphia State Hospital where four Quakers initiated The Attendant magazine as a way to communicate ideas and promote reform. This periodical later became the The Psychiatric Aide, a professional journal for mental health workers. On May 6, 1946, Life Magazine printed an exposé of the psychiatric system based on the reports of COs. Another effort of CPS, namely the Mental Hygiene Project, became the National Mental Health Foundation. Initially sceptical about the value of Civilian Public Service, Eleanor Roosevelt, impressed by the changes introduced by COs in the mental health system, became a sponsor of the National Mental Health Foundation and actively inspired other prominent citizens including Owen J. Roberts, Pearl Buck and Harry Emerson Fosdick to join her in advancing the organization's objectives of reform and humane treatment of patients. Radical medicine By the mid-1940s, treatment of the mentally ill took a new turn, with the advent of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and insulin shock therapy, and the use of frontal lobotomy. In modern times, insulin shock therapy and lobotomies are viewed as being almost as barbaric as the Bedlam "treatments", although the insulin shock therapy was still seen as the first options which produced any noticeable effect on their patients. ECT is still used in the West, but it is seen as a last resort for treatment of mood disorders, and is administered much more safely than in the past.[14] Elsewhere, particularly in India, use of ECT is reportedly increasing, as a cost-effective alternative to drug treatment. The effect of a shock on an overly excitable patient often allowed these patients to be discharged to their homes, which was seen by administrators (and often guardians) as a preferable solution to institutionalization. Lobotomies were performed in the hundreds from the 1930s to the 1950s, and were ultimately replaced with modern psychotropic drugs. Drugs By the mid-1950s, the first psychiatric medications became available, such as chlorpromazine, which revolutionized psychiatric care and provided new ways for many of the severely mentally ill to return to normal society. Newly developed antidepressants were used to treat cases of depression, and the introduction of muscle relaxants allowed ECT to be used in a modified form for the treatment of severe depression and a few other disorders. The use of psychosurgery was narrowed to a very small number of people for specific indications. New treatments led to reductions in the number of patients in mental hospitals. Juvenile wards Juvenile wards are sections of psychiatric hospitals or psychiatric wards set aside for children and/or adolescents with mental illness. However, there are a number of institutions specializing only in the treatment of juveniles, particularly when dealing with drug abuse, self mutilation, or eating disorders. These usually consist of anyone aged under 10. Long term care facilities In the UK long-term care facilities are now being replaced with smaller secure units (some within the hospitals listed above). Modern buildings, modern security and being locally sited to help with reintegration into society once medication has stabilized the condition are often features of such units. An example of this is the Three Bridges Unit, in the grounds of Hanwell Asylum in West London and the John Munroe Hospital in Staffordshire. However these modern units have the goal of treatment and rehabilitation back into society within a short time-frame (two or three years) and not all forensic patients' treatment can meet this criterion, so the large hospitals mentioned above often retain this role. Halfway houses One type of institution for the mentally ill is a community-based halfway house. These facilities provide assisted living[17] for patients with mental illnesses for an extended period of time, and often aid in the transition to self-sufficiency. These institutions are considered to be one of the most important parts of a mental health system by many psychiatrists, although some localities lack sufficient funding. Form of prison In some countries the mental institution may be used for the incarceration of political prisoners, as a form of punishment --------------------------------------------------------------- Hello <Name Here> Because of something that has unfortunately happened to you, you are now a registered patient of Saint Phillipa's Psychiatric Hospital. If that is to hard for you to remember, we are also known as PPH. Here you will be placed under careful management and intensive care for a small period of time. We will help you as much as we can, and we wish you the very best. ThiSs Iz A LiE. RUN. Regards, Phillipa's Psychiatric Hospital  __________________________________________________ ____________ You are a patient. You are most certainly mental, but in your mind, you are physically and mentally perfect. However messed up you may be, you at least have enough common sense to know that this isn't usually how Psychiatric Wards treat their patients. This place tries to torture their patients into sanity, while the cover up is a lie hiding behind money, media, and power. You are a patient. You are being tortured. You want to get out. __________________________________________________ ___________
__________________________________________________ _____ Character Sheet: Name: (First, Middle, Last) Age: (Between 13 and 45) Appearance: (Picture then slight written description. No anime. Animations and graphics are okay) Illness: The thing they have that got them a ticket to this place in the first place. Time spent in ward: (Up to you) History: Attitude: Extra: (Optional) __________________________________________________ __ Name: Praticia D. Louis Age: 18 Appearance:  She has long brown hair with slightly lighter brown streaks, that run all the way down to her waist. She ranges roughly 5'8'' and has skin the colour of tanned copper. She has piercing blue eyes and a round face. Illness: Schizophrenia, Multi-Personality Disorder. Time spent in Ward: Ranging roughly between 5-6 years. History: As a child it was obvious that something was wrong. Her parents were ashamed to talk about it, so they locked her up in an attic, only making her situation worse. It was the Aunt who had enough heart to take her to a therapist and attempt to solve this problem. The results came back that she had succumbed to a deep state of psychotic illness, and suggested she be taken to a ward in hopes of recovering. Their parents sent her to a rather expensive school, not really caring what happened to her there, rather that she be healed and re-gain the family respect and good name for them. They really don't care about what methods were used to make her better again. She was admitted at the age of twelve, and was one of the youngest, and the first to take place there. It was not a large ward, but it was very well looked after and made to look like a clean, secured place. But in the basements lay the torture room, also known as the "Rehabilitation Centre" She learnt in her first week to fear Wednesdays, where room 3 had their turn to go down to the Rehab Centre, and the torture sent her even more mad, but she learnt to contain it in fear of pain. Her voices are magnified during torture, but she if forced to keep them back, to ignore them, so that the torture may eventually stop. Attitude: Has a rather jerky attitude that peaks with different emotions, and then suddenly deflates. She has a rather down to earth sense of humour, and enjoys listening to other, as well as cracking a witty remark every know and then. Her other personalities all tend to be cocky, bubbly, kind, or evil. The fourth of which tends to turn up more then the others. She is nice and is always the first to attempt to make friends. She has never fallen in love, and knows it is to dangerous too, when it comes to this ward. Extra: N/A Will Elaborate later.
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| Name: Atlas Laraway Age: Twenty-two Appearance:  Dark, long hair, cleanly shaven with a dark face as if her never slept. Dark green piercing eyes, bloodshot during mornings. Scars all across his wrists from where he had put glass and razorblades against it. His skin is fairly pale, perhaps from his lack of exposure to sunlight or from his disposition. He can smile, but it is usually fake, a show for anyone whom he wishes to appear normal to. Illness: Somatoform Pain Disorder, Unipolar Disorder Time spent in ward: Twelve History: Atlas was born in New York City to a single mother whose father had left him when he was born. His father left only a beat-up acoustic guitar. His mother became a whore to make ends meet, and became unable to care for Atlas properly, and wanted nothing to do with him. She threw him out, and he was discovered by a bunch of hoodlums, and at the age of 4 he was brutally beaten to the brink of death. Police arrived in time to lock up the hoodlums and they saved Atlas. He was scarred for life on his side, where his skin had broke where one of them had kicked him, breaking many of his ribs. The scar went all the way down his side, and from then on he had a permenant searing pain in the center of the scar. He couldn't sleep, and dared not communicate his pain to the others at the orphanage he was sent to. Eventually, when he was ten, he murdered a boy who threatened him by strangling the boy. The boy had been there in search of a new brother The body was discovered in the closet several hours later, and he was declared insane, or mentally ill, and shipped off to the PHH. Throughout all this, his guitar remained with him, and in the orphanage one of the visitors had brought him a new guitar, a large, well tuned, well made Gibson. He was allowed to keep it, since whenever he played it the pain in his side was gone. Attitude: "Everyone is against me. There is no hope. We will all die, and it is impossible to predict when and impossible to prevent. They all hate me. They have no souls. They are all evil in their own right, as I am, but they all hate only me. I write what I know and what I think. 'I gave up on everything a long time ago. The black clouds that swallowed me spit me out whole... Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my soul. At least that means I still have a soul after all.' My wrists are covered with scars. My pain is what keeps me alive now. I need to find someone to save me, but no one is pure. No one." Extra: (Optional)
__________________ I'm betting dreams upon my paper wings Because flying isn't just for kings I take the stairs to the very top floor I paid the super to leave open the door A perfect sunset is sinking in the sky I know my body is ready to fly I start the countdown back wards from ten When I reach one my family name will end Falling down as windows pass I start to cry And curse the day my parents laid... In a bed of hopelessness where love was made Please mark my grave unknown Spoiler Spoiler Last edited by Autumn Leaf; 11-28-2009 at 03:44 PM. |
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| Name: Amelie Rae Giordanis Age: 17 Appearance:  Long messy black hair with bits of blonde in it. Bright hazel eyes and three lip piercings. Is very pale and thin due to her substance use and often locking herself away and not eating for days. Illness: Borderline Personality Disorder, Acute Depersonalization Disorder Time spent in ward: 2 almost 3 years History: Amelie was a normal kid until she turned 5 and she was molested by her father. This went on for five years until her mother found out. Amelie became withdrawn from that point on. She didn't talk or eat much. She would often sleep her days away, not wanting to get up for school. Things got worse when she turned 12 and began abusing and experimenting with the family pets. As if that wasn't all bad enough, Amelie began experimenting with drugs when she was around 14. She got in to heavier drugs like Cocaine and Heroin when she was 15. By then her mother chose to send her to a rehab, hoping things would get better. When Amelie entered rehab, she was required to meet with the psychiatrist there. That's when the psychiatrist determined Amelie had Borderline Personality Disorder and Acute Depersonalization Disorder. The rehab and Amelie's mother decided together that she would be better off in a psychiatric hospital. Which was when they shipped her off Phillipas. Attitude: Amelie was bitter when she first arrived at the psych hospital. She didn't compromise with treatment and would often lock herself in her room. Now she is more open to treatment and attends groups. She's still more introverted, sometimes breaking into fits of manic happiness and being more outgoing. She also has a bit of a temper and has trouble controlling it. She's usually quiet and doesn't like to be the center of attention. Extra: Was addicted to various substances (perscription pills, Cocaine, Heroin, etc.) upon entering the hospital where she went through withdrawal and has been clean since. hope this is ok?
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