Living+in+a+Utopia

Topic: Helping Mentally ill

Focus: Insane Asylum

Reason for choice: I chose this topic because It shows how in the 19th century people with mental disorders were ruled out and put in asylums.

What's your point? (thesis): Was Asylum the right chose?

What three reasons do you have that will back up your point?

1. Dealing with the insane

2. Treatment

3. Compared to today

What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it? - In the 19th century the way that the insane were dealed with was they would be put into asylums or homes for the mad. - People with mental disorders were judged insane by family members and hospital workers. - In the 19th centuy the insane were alienated from society and they adapted into the asylums.

What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it? - The doctors devised a plan where theywould set aside three major state hospitals on long island, the thought was that the clean air would help to heal the patients. - The thought was that treatment would consist of R&R; or rest and recreation. - The first hospital was in Brooklyn and the patients lived in wooden houses where the stresses and unhealthy conditions of the city would be forgotten and this would help cure the patient.

What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it? - Today most of the treatments are by medication, which was introduced in the 1950's, and patients are free to live where they want unless the condition is too unmanagable. - Challenged people today are accecpted into everyday life, the outlook on them is getting smaller and smaller and there people live just as we do. - Although there is no cure for these illnesses people are taking care of the challenged and not just specialized people have to help everyone can be a part of this, make a friend and help them adapt.

Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life? Based in the resaerch that I have found, I can conclude that during the 19th century any physical or mental challenge that a person had they would then be judged b their family or hosptal workers and most likely be put into an insane asylum. This connects to my life because when I work with children that have challenges I do not judge them, they are a part of this world as much as I am. Back then life would be much harder on the children and adults with special needs and by allowing these people to live, work and learn the same as anyone would. Today is a better day to have a challenge then to be living in the 19th century and being practically exiled because there is something that isn't like you.

Ideas on how you are going to present? Involve the class? Be exciting? Interesting? Wow? Huh? Ahhh?