Mental Health In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
In the middle of the twentieth century, mental hospitals were seen as a waste of money, highly inhumane, and very ineffective. Around the 1960s, President Kennedy made it a priority to start reforming the nation’s mental health institutions, hoping to improve them. By the 1970s, a series of landmark court cases made it illegal for a hospital to retain or even possibly treat a patient against their will. In the year 1975, the drama film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest swept the Oscars, which offered the public a scathing denunciation towards mental hospitals. To illustrate, a person who suffers from schizophrenia cannot help but believe the voices they hear and the people they see. To them they are real and there is no cure for this cruel disease. Many families don't know how to cope with it because from everyone else’s eyes they see a person who is harming another person, but in that person’s eyes they see someone else forcing them to do so and telling them they have to do such a horrifying dead. Something as major as that can send that person straight to jail.
Not only are the mentally ill a danger to themselves and others, the other …show more content…
This is being a major issue and can cause someone suffering from mental health feel much more isolated than before and even highly terrified, making their state of mind worse than before. It is very threatening when that happens because it can lead up to the person who suffers from an illness to lose control of their minds and will act out in harmful. So even if they were treated as patients in the eyes of the prison system, their condition will still worsen since they are confined with people who are actually violent causing them to mimic the violence.Michael Winerip and Michael Schwirtz expose the hideous truth in their article, “Rokers: Where Mental Illness Meets Brutality in Jail,” published in the New York Times, about how the prison in Rikers is managed. In the article Winerip and
Not only are the mentally ill a danger to themselves and others, the other …show more content…
This is being a major issue and can cause someone suffering from mental health feel much more isolated than before and even highly terrified, making their state of mind worse than before. It is very threatening when that happens because it can lead up to the person who suffers from an illness to lose control of their minds and will act out in harmful. So even if they were treated as patients in the eyes of the prison system, their condition will still worsen since they are confined with people who are actually violent causing them to mimic the violence.Michael Winerip and Michael Schwirtz expose the hideous truth in their article, “Rokers: Where Mental Illness Meets Brutality in Jail,” published in the New York Times, about how the prison in Rikers is managed. In the article Winerip and