In "Mental Illness in the 19th Century" by Carrie Hughes, the writer talks about how people first blamed witchcraft for starting mental illness. Also the article talks about how if a person had a mental illness they had to go to prisons or saty home . Although the problem was that the people in the prisons and homes were untreated. In the beginning of the late eighteenth century "moral treatment" had started , this "moral treatment" stated that the people with the mental illness should be put in an apporpriate enviornment. Near the 1880's people were truning against the people with a mental problem. But that also brought people to coming up with treatments for the patients.
The central point of the article was that mental illness was brain damage. It was also about how there was a "moral treatment" for the people who had an illness.
My reaction to this article was , I felt bad for the people who had the mental illness. I felt bad because it was upsetting knowing that if someone had an illness they were to be put in jail or they had to stay home, without treatment. My other reaction to this article was that, back then people were not really treated equally. For example after a couple of years of having the "moral treatment" doctors were frustrated by their lack of progress.
