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Girl With No Face
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She calls herself the ‘girl with no face’.
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She was locked up in a small room ‘for her own protection’ for years. Her father had to kneel on the floor outside and talk to her through a hatch. She was guilty of having autism. Her name was (her name IS) Bethany.
After an outcry, she was transferred to a unit nearer her home. There, the door had no hatch, and her father had to shout to her under the locked door.
A plot for a horror novel?
No, the real life account of a 14-year-old’s incarceration under Britain’s mental health system.
Please spend just half-an-hour listening to this disturbing programme. Let me know if trouble playing it, and I’ll put it up somewhere else.
Allen
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She was locked up in a small room ‘for her own protection’ for years. Her father had to kneel on the floor outside and talk to her through a hatch. She was guilty of having autism. Her name was (her name IS) Bethany.
After an outcry, she was transferred to a unit nearer her home. There, the door had no hatch, and her father had to shout to her under the locked door.
A plot for a horror novel?
No, the real life account of a 14-year-old’s incarceration under Britain’s mental health system.
Please spend just half-an-hour listening to this disturbing programme. Let me know if trouble playing it, and I’ll put it up somewhere else.
Allen
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Hello Karl.
What, you mean
(a) the BBC bashers. Yes, I was expecting them, but maybe they're busy polishing their knives.
(b) the 'no such thing as autism' brigade. Them too, they seem to be remarkably quiet.
(c) how our Health Service is the best in the world, and keep your filthy hands orf it? Yes, them too.
(d) it was all okay till all them foreigners turned up.
All quiet on the usual suspects front though...
A
What, you mean
(a) the BBC bashers. Yes, I was expecting them, but maybe they're busy polishing their knives.
(b) the 'no such thing as autism' brigade. Them too, they seem to be remarkably quiet.
(c) how our Health Service is the best in the world, and keep your filthy hands orf it? Yes, them too.
(d) it was all okay till all them foreigners turned up.
All quiet on the usual suspects front though...
A
I haven't watched it at the moment, would have to download it on my phone... but I can't imagine anyone would describe the mental healthcare services, of any country, as even "adequate". We seem to try to lump them in with physical care.
I think things are getting better quickly, tbh... but we still have an awful long way to go.
I think things are getting better quickly, tbh... but we still have an awful long way to go.
allen let me give you a historical view on the mental aspect in the NHS which may give you some insight.
The 1950,s as a medical student one did 3 months in the main teaching hospital and in a local mental home ..the Asylum..old archaic buildings, cold and forbidding. This training period was combined with E.NT, Eyes and Infectious Diseases, all inthe same 3 months which was boring and mainly hated. It was known that in you finals one was unlikely to get a question on Psychiatry.
When one qualified few Dr's wanted to specialise in Psychiatry......very few and they consisted of women who wanted a 9-5 job or the " odd bod" in your year
It was UNPOPULAR.
In the 1970's there was a public and moral outcry about these patients being locked away inthes Frankinstein like buildings and so these people were released i to society and the streets were filled with the mentally ill who were not provided for.
Treatment was barbaric for the depressed consisting of electric shocks to the brain (ECT) which occasionally worked but nobody knew why or how
Then came the drugs the antidepressants, the anxiolytic and others.......still a speciality that was considered boring.
Mental Health has a problem in recruitment of doctors, it is boring, unrewarding over the short time and in overnight parlou..not sexy.
I that respect NOTHING has changed over the last 50 years.....in my opinion.
The 1950,s as a medical student one did 3 months in the main teaching hospital and in a local mental home ..the Asylum..old archaic buildings, cold and forbidding. This training period was combined with E.NT, Eyes and Infectious Diseases, all inthe same 3 months which was boring and mainly hated. It was known that in you finals one was unlikely to get a question on Psychiatry.
When one qualified few Dr's wanted to specialise in Psychiatry......very few and they consisted of women who wanted a 9-5 job or the " odd bod" in your year
It was UNPOPULAR.
In the 1970's there was a public and moral outcry about these patients being locked away inthes Frankinstein like buildings and so these people were released i to society and the streets were filled with the mentally ill who were not provided for.
Treatment was barbaric for the depressed consisting of electric shocks to the brain (ECT) which occasionally worked but nobody knew why or how
Then came the drugs the antidepressants, the anxiolytic and others.......still a speciality that was considered boring.
Mental Health has a problem in recruitment of doctors, it is boring, unrewarding over the short time and in overnight parlou..not sexy.
I that respect NOTHING has changed over the last 50 years.....in my opinion.
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