Gruesome Discovery Under Ole Miss Reveals Dark Mental Health Care History

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4. Considering that psychiatry is only a little over a century old...

As horrible as it is, until modern psychiatry, those with mental illnesses were considered to be either filled with the devil, less then human, walking idiots.
The treatment of people with mental illness as humane is a very new concept. But, considering the way this country is treating many of it's mentally ill today by cutting their assistance and health care, throwing them on the streets to fend for themselves, I don't think we as a society have progressed very far from those dark days