Today we Look at the History of Bethlem also known as Bedlam Insane Asylum Its many changes of venue, change from asylum to hospital and its influence on western Society…….
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
01:44 A Story As Old As Time
02:30 Early Beginnings
08:06 Move 1
12:31 Move 2
16:19 Move 3
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This weeks outro video https://youtu.be/1OT-2reBUBc
When one considers how harsh life was for ordinary working class citizens in these times these asylums don't appear so bad. Everything is comparative.
"Lock, Stock And 2 Locking Manacles ."
By Hooke or by Ctooke.
Hi John. Please make a video on how the war on Russia over Ukraine lead to a cold cold winter for the English who had nothing to do with yet another European conflict.
Hi John, I ran across an article in an old book that I thought might be worthy of a video.
In 1880, a tornado flattened Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people in less than a minute. The survivors, even the uninjured, began to show signs of extreme apathy and were unwilling to describe the event. The term "shell shocked" was not coined until 1915 but the Marshfield cases were the first medical mention of the affliction that we now call PTSD.
An appreciative nod at the retro pre advert ticker.
Some humans can really be cruel..
Cool new intro btw
What does the black and white flag at the top right @7:57 mean? I've seen it on many of your videos, and can't suss out the meaning. Quick google was no help.
Again yet another example of humanity at it's finest.
This was a great video, and I appreciate all the time you took to give so many details. Thank you for posting this, and please do some more videos like this.
I never fully understood the meaning of "Bethlehem" in "The Second Coming" by Yeats… all of a sudden it makes perfect sense.
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
Thanks as always.
Any video with an A Clockwork Orange reference get's a thumbs up.
The outro is even more terrifying than the video. Especially because I know why it was chosen.
Nowadays u just send them to Canada where uthenization is a treatment for depression
Good choice of topic going into Halloween, and perfect time to bring back Strange Places.
The National Archives' map beverage mishap… Pythonesque foot… "The writing was on the wall"… another classic, with Patented Plainly Difficult comedic seasoning.
Why do so many people think that we no longer use ECT? It’s a treatment of last resort, unless the patient has an advance directive stating that ECT should be first-line (we have a number of people in that position), but I’ve seen it help so many people over the years, especially those with psychotic depression. Insulin coma therapy, on the other hand, was ridiculously dangerous and hasn’t been used for decades.
No need to guess on the meaning of mente capti, it is translated as "mad" or "insane".
It was the origin for the Italian word mentecatto, meaning dim-witted, and the Spanish mentecato, meaning foolish.
I think you can see where the Nazi T4 program was born.
I first became interested in Bethlem after playing the Nintendo64 port of the DOS game Bedlam.
This was the mid-to-late 90s, so Wikipedia was not a thing back then, but I was volunteering in the school library half an hour a week and had pretty much free access to research that way.
I sort of took the Behtlem > Bedlam connection as gospel, but the sources I had available only took me as far back as the 1800s, so the connection Betlehem > Bethlem was never made.
Thank you for re-igniting my fascination with the history of this place, and teaching me more about the things I missed out so long ago!
the ancient map tho
ECT and insulin shock therapy are barbaric torture practices.
“It’s like lipstick on a pig” to describe being ugly!?
How dare you, lol LazerPig would be heartbroken hearing that! You should do a collaboration with him to make up for it! 😀
I live in Shirley and have been told so many horrifying stories about this place, always drive past it
Very interesting as usual, and I enjoyed the Monty Python reference
Yo, you should make a video on the missouri radioactive waste incident
The guy literally named "crook" being corrupt is one of history's biggest "should have seen this coming" moments.
I'd recommend a video on a possible nuke dropped in the St Lawrence river in the 50s, and the increase in local cancer cases from the radiation. It was mentioned in a Farley Mowat book and I have been wondering about it since.
I feel like you just found the centre of my venn diagram
I used to live a few streets away from the Imperial War Museum. I knew immediately that you were gonna mention it haha
I can't see how ECT is anything other than erasing memories . The "fit" theory in the realms of psychiatrist BS drivel, just sounds like they're making stuff up to me, without really knowing what it is doing. Too much electrical current through anything blows holes and fuses.
So it will certainly blow connections between neurons and cause memory loss.
I guess Psychiatrists don't study anything useful like electrical theory. They really should before they start frying peoples brains with ECT.
I sometimes wonder if it might be time to go back to the old asylums. Not because they were a great idea, they weren't, but because what we have instead is not much, if at all, better. Maybe my area is a particularly bad area but the MH provision is so underfunded and abysmal it might as well not exist. If you're not at the mad-axe-man level of insanity you'll wait forever for an appointment with a shrink and when you do get an appointment it'll be with a locum psychiatrist who obviously couldn't care less. My last one couldn't understand me and I couldn't understand her as her English was worse than my French and my French is abysmal. I don't expect everybody should speak English with an RP accent but it would seem a rather important qualification for a psychiatrist in England to at least understand English.
I gave up about three years ago when a moderate (by my standards) crisis resulted in me being referred to a 'mindfulness' course which seemed to be run by the cleaning staff. Patronising, insulting, infantilising, highly offensive and it added up to little more than "FOR GOD SAKE PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!". It was supposed to be a ten week course and lasted one and a half… That's when the last half dozen of us walked out when we were told to feel a raisin… No… Not a typo… We were supposed to think about what a raisin felt like. WTAF?
Of course this 'course' was designed to do one thing and one thing only. Hit a target of being offered treatment within six weeks or whatever it was.
tourcher, and torcher ale-ments…what is up with your subtitles?
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It’s bedlam here!
Bethlam's final home is a sunny south-east corner of London…John's in a sunny south-east corner of London…….
Is there something you're trying to tell us, John?
Super looking forward to this series continuing!
That intro music SLAPS
I couldn't help noticing how easy is to be listed as "depressed" in England.
I never met any "depressed" person in my own country, then, when I moved to Brighton I met them all at once. What's weird is most of them are NOT depressed!!! They used that excuse to be out of work and on benefit support as well as paid accommodation.
Great video, very informative & interesting! I was brought up around the Elephant & Castle! To this day we still call it Bedlam Park!
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I know that ECT is seen as old and barbaric, but it's actually still used with good results. The practice has obviously evolved, but it's still a reasonable treatment for the proper diagnosis.
People seem to forget that these "asylums" were nothing less than real life medieval torture dungeons. There was no due process for getting in OR getting out, and yes being an "angry black guy" was seen as a sickness. These "hospitals" were weapons. This was a really bad one, but the rot was systemic.
Gotta love electro shocks to cure people. Even worst, Americans are still using it to "cure" homosexuality.
What’s the outro video about ?
All Of These Places Need To Be Reopened And Most Of The Lefties Should Be Placed There…
OK, so the new format of YT – in which it now has separate categories for long form videos & Shorts – sucks!
The main reasons are as follows:
1) It is impossible to see at one glance what's new & what's not. One has to toggle between these two 'categories' to see that.
A user (both casual or subscribed to a channel) will/can not see at a glance what's new, and has to manually click on these 'categories' to try & find out what's new.
This is irritating both for teh casual user, and esp. so for the subscribed user, as this wastes time — I'm not sure this will help with visibility as people will likely not want to do that…
2) The Shorts category does not show when the short was released. This 'time of release' function is there for the long form videos, but somehow, irritatingly, missing for the Shorts.
One could argue that most people release shorts more often than long form videos, hence, this function/info is more important for Shorts, otherwise people would get confused about what they have seen & what they haven't; what's new & what's old (esp. as people change their titles all the time!). I don't think this confusion & sorting through a 'catalogue' (or trying to remember what they have & haven't seen) is going to positively affect users.
I understand why this feature may have been added by YT (& even content creators might think that this is a good idea) — i.e. in order to effect mroe clicks on more number of videos (esp. shorts) — but, IMO, this is very likely to backfire for the reasons mentioned above.
All in all, these changes are a pain in the butt for most users — both casual & those who are subscribed to a channel — esp. more so for the latter — and I think people who create both long form videos and Shorts will lose out the most in this 'click-the-right-category-and-then-try-and-sort-sh1t-out game'…!
People who create only/mostly Shorts are next to lose out.
If a content creator only/mainly creates long form videos, they're least likely to be adversely affected by this 'upgrade'.
I think content creators should take cognizance of these facts, and realise that these changes are not really in their favour (even though it may seem so peripherally/initially). They should petition YT to revert back to the old format — both for the users' viewing ease (which is the whole point., I'd imagine!), and for their own channel visibility.
Cheers!