Neapolitan Ice Cream
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 18, 2021
A friend of mine up and until recently visited the Bedlam Hospital in London as an outpatient for her anxiety. Mostly modern, same as any hospital. However, some wings harkened back to the days when it was an insane asylum - especially the shower block. She could have sworn they were haunted
It wouldn't surprise me. The things those walls had seen were SHOCKING. They dated back to times before psychiatric medications when treatments were brutal and people could pay to see the "lunatics". One of the most horrific "treatments" was electro-convulsive therapy before it was civilised. Patients were strapped to chairs, no anaesthetic, no paralytic, mouth guard to stop you breaking your teeth... a far cry from how it is now.
Terrifying. Now those wings are being demolished and the demons exorcised, but still... not somewhere I would care to visit.
It wouldn't surprise me. The things those walls had seen were SHOCKING. They dated back to times before psychiatric medications when treatments were brutal and people could pay to see the "lunatics". One of the most horrific "treatments" was electro-convulsive therapy before it was civilised. Patients were strapped to chairs, no anaesthetic, no paralytic, mouth guard to stop you breaking your teeth... a far cry from how it is now.
Terrifying. Now those wings are being demolished and the demons exorcised, but still... not somewhere I would care to visit.