Wayward HetAsylum

When's this set? The 1900s? Apart from electroshock therapy and lobotomies, do you know what other sorts of things they did?

I'm just wondering what sorts of things they would do to Alice... I can look it up, I was just wondering where if you had decided where to draw the line and stuff.

I was looking at the description of the place and it seems really run down. But does that mean it's in modern times - an AU where it's still legal for this stuff? Cause I don't think they painted buildings in the 1900s. So I'm confused on the date... O.o (I'm just making things difficult, sorry.)

No, it's alright. And yes, it is a bit run down, from the outside at least, but the inside isn't so bad and is habitable. It does take place in the 1900s and paint actually was used even in those times, just different types of paint, such as butter milk paint which was typically white, and color was rarely used seeing as how adding color was expensive.

It's been said depending on what afflictions you had or how bad it was, they either dunked you in ice baths of boiling baths. In America they induced vomiting or drained "bad blood" to get rid of the "crisis". I imagine this taking place in Europe though, so I don't think we'll need that. In the 19th century Europeans believed in moral management, where they created a more domestic feel for the patients with beds, pictures, and decorations instead of shackles, chains and cement cells. Treatment also took a benign approach. Phrenology was introduced, studying the shape of the brain to explain illnesses and render diagnosis. Animal magnetism was another popular practice, concentrating on the benefits of hypnosis and relaxation. Problems surfaced, however, with patients becoming unruly due to lack of restraints, and concern arose with how patients were to occupy their time. To combat these concerns, work programs and recreational activities were devised for patients in asylums, significantly moving to bridge the gap between society and the hospital.

They also introduced Malarial therapy followed by barbiturate therapy to induce deep sleep therapy. There were different types of shock treatments aimed at different diseases, but electro coclusive shock therapy, or ECT, was used as a last resort

Sorry if I confused you with the info I provided but there aren't cells ^^; What I actually was trying to get across was that during the 1900s the Europeans introduced a new way of treating mentally ill patients and it involved not having cement cells, shackles, etc. for the patients. However, the way the orderlies and psychologists treat the patients is up to you. I imagine that there were some who still treated the patients badly since theysome believed that the Devil possessed them or they just didn't think the patients would ever get better. And I didn't see anything about keeping the patients locked up all the time, perhaps they let them at least wander around within a designated area doing something productive if they were alright enough, so anyone who has a character who isn't in a straight jacket could probably do that.

I was thinking Kiki was in like a padded room or something. But seriously, how I see the rooms would be like, well, rooms. Bed. Bathroom. And a door with a window. But since she's kind of...violent, I think they would keep the more violent ones in their rooms and straightjackets and such. :\ I know they used to let some of them outside in the yard in the old days. With guards and such. But that was when they were like zombies on heavily on their meds. owo;

I was thinking the same thing, actually :\

Oh, and do you wanna make the psycologist an NPC seeing as how we have no one who asked to be a psycologists? o-o