A BBC story explores the unusual states of consciousness and bizarre experiences that often happen to people who are locked in seclusion or otherwise isolated.
How extreme isolation warps the mind (BBC, May 14, 2015)
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But “seclusion” or “quiet rooms” are still common in psychiatric institutions. And it doesn’t take a lot of effort to see what that does to people. As a young child, sometimes I was locked in rooms for weeks at a time. I think that was supposed to be “therapy.” The psychiatrist in charge of the “Children’s Group” at Rockland State Hospital, where I spent my late childhood, wrote an article for the Saturday Evening Post, an important national magazine at the time (late 1940’s) that said that we were receiving “all of the essentials and none of the frills of modern psychiatry.”
Yes, the abuses of psychiatry were in the past, he said. Doesn’t that sound familiar?
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Forced psychiatry = torture. Even UN agrees with us now. Still it changes nothing.
I still admire how you could go through all of this as a kid and not go mental hence proving their point. It really speaks to the resilience of the human spirit.
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As one learns in any Sociology or Anthropology 101 Class, human are highly social beings who, beginning at birth, need other humans to survive. Isolating people to deprive them from interacting with others is obviously a form of torture!
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For me this contradicts the brain sickness theory of altered mental states. It’s also a terrible form of torture.
