How were patients treated in insane asylums

Countless asylums employed the use of insulin therapy intended to induce comas, as well as shock therapy.Patients were locked in cages, and lobotomies were performed with ice picks.Paranormal seekers can even stay in the facility overnight, if they dare… greystone park psychiatric hospital (morris plains, new jersey, usa)A female mental asylum patient.1 virtually all care of people with mental disorders was in some sort of domestic setting.A woman who went undercover at an asylum said they were given only tea, bread with rancid butter, and five prunes for each meal.

What were insane asylums like in the 1800?Public health survey, 72 percent of the country's 305 reporting public and private asylums were using insulin coma therapy, not only for schizophrenia, but also for other types of madness, writes de young.