Mental Health Facilities Quotes

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options.

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health.

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.

In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

We must bring the issue of mental illness out into the sunlight, out of the shadow, out of the closet, deal with it, treat people, have centers where people can get the necessary help.

I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons within the Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens—chained naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?

When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind.

When I was a visitor to a lunatic asylum I always noticed how well the worst lunatics looked.

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.

As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.

We have funny ideas about how people in mental institutions act. We think of drooling and people going booga-booga and climbing the wall. These are exceptional cases.

I wasn't inspired by lunatic asylums or anything like that.

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

The state must concern itself with all institutions for those with damaged minds.