Insanity By Natalie Stone

Insanity Insanity-is a deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder (as schizophrenia) such unsoundness of mind or lack of understanding as prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction or as removes one from criminal or civil responsibility. Should someone’s mental stability be the determining factor in societal acceptance?

Insanity Insanity throughout history In the mid to late 1900’s shock therapy or ECT was the main treatment for any type of mental disorder. Side effects of ECT include: loss of recent memories formed and loss of memories from certain parts of past events. Cause seizure in the brain. Seizure is suppose to release many chemicals in the brain and deliver messages from one brain cell to another. The release of these chemicals makes the brain cells work better. Suppose to improve a persons mood.

Insanity Sylvia Plath was an author and a poet and suffered from bipolar disorder and depression. People focused more on her disorder than her actually work. Shock therapy was used on her. Plath described her days hospitalized as “a time of darkness, despair, and disillusion-so black only as the inferno of the human mind can be- symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration.”

Insanity Sylvia Plath Lived with her disorder for so long without the right treatment that she only could take it but so much longer. In 1963 she took a bottle of sleeping pills and stuck her head in a gas oven. In today’s society she is known for her controlled and bold poems but in her time she was known for her mental illness.

Insanity How helpful was ECT and what other treatments could have helped the mentally ill? If there were more importance on the right treatment for the mentally ill instead of trying to hide them from society there might have been more progress in the mid to late 1900’s in finding the right treatment.

Insanity My great grandmother suffered from schizophrenia. Checked her self into asylum and was there for 10 years till my grandfather checked her out to find her help. In the asylum she was given shock therapy. Needed different treatment to help her disorder so she could live a life with out being tormented by her demons. Grandfather found doctor that was able to treat her with the right medication that allowed her to live a normal life in society. If society in the mid 1900’s wasn’t so concerned with locking up the insane people and were more focused on what would help the mentally unstable they might have realized that there were other methods of treatment that would have helped.