The UK’s Independent reports on the Belgium city of Geel, where local families have welcomed people with mental health issues into their homes as boarders since the 14th century. Though, the people of Geel reject the common language and perceptions of “madness.” “Few hosts in Geel would regard the practice as therapy but the city has drawn the praise of psychiatrists through the centuries for the success of its care, allowing people to live with their conditions in a loving environment without being separated from society or treated as a patient.”
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Wow this is pretty cool. Many families in the United States have a spare bedroom, given all the huge houses here. But how many would open their house to a crazy person?
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Saw a documentary on geel several years ago, or maybe it was a news special. In any case, almost everybody in every shot had a severe case of tardive dyskinesia. I remember being stunned by how common and severe. Those people are obviously drugged to the gills over there.
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Unfortunately the drugs have fund there way everywhere :/.
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