Many witnesses on the documentary complained of the smell that enveloped the facility, stating that the residents were uncared for, and thus unhygienic. One resident at Willowbrook was misdiagnosed with mental retardation when he had cerebral palsy. He remembers his time there well and says he was abused, beaten with sticks, had his head kicked into a wall, and was forgotten by his family. He states it was his own personal hell. This was such a devastating situation and I can't help but wonder how many others were misdiagnosed as well.
Unsafe practices in Hillcroft nursing home in Slyne-with-Hest near Lancaster (May 2010 – September 2011): In report it states that nursing home staff neglected, emotionally and physically abused a persons with lack of capacity under The Mental Capacity Act 2000 because they would have no memory of the abuse and they couldn’t report it by themselves. There are few examples of how abuse happen: deliberately tipping resident out of wheelchair, striking, slapping, mocking and bullying resident, pelting residents with bean bags and balls at their heads “for entertainment as abusers felt bored”, laughing about residents. Failures to protect individuals: • Failure from staff team to provide care, treatment and support that meets people's needs.
There is no reason a reader should read this poem and not have a better understanding of the mental illness of schizophrenia and how it affects not only the person but the family as a whole. Both the homes and the families are thought of as a place of safety and love, but in this family, due to a terrible disease, love is hard to find. It is a constant uphill struggle to try and love someone when you can’t help them. Often times, when we can’t help someone, we blame ourselves, which only causes more stress and distance. The line, “It was the house that suffered most.” (Line 1), illustrates that, although the person diagnosed with schizophrenia was probably suffering, it was the family, as a whole, that suffered the most.
Her carer often comes round and is nasty to her, pushes her and calls her names. Mary hasn’t told anyone because she thinks it is her fault, she is being annoying and this is why her carer is horrible to her. Also people who are dependent on others for personal care. Sometimes people living alone and depending on a carer can make a person very isolated and they may find that their main contact with the outside world is through their carer. Their carer may be the person they see the most in the day.
He treated his own children in a confining and abusive manner, too. This childhood psychological trauma influenced the development of Perry’s character – if injustice was done to someone, he would help. Perry’s childhood ran its course, after the death of his mother, he got into a catholic orphanage, where the nuns would beat him with a flashlight and harass him mentally for wetting his bed. The loss of close people, the absence of safety and protection caused instability in him. His tough journey continued: he was sent to an army orphanage, where it was not any better, because one of the caretakers tried to drown him.
In that case, women would have to care for the ill person and pick up the chores around the person’s home that they were staying at as well. Unfortunately, the caregiver’s housework only hoarded in her absence from home. When husbands or older children fell ill, the caregiver had to add the patient’s chores to their own list of duties (47). When a husband who was the wage earner for the family became ill, the wife would often search for a job herself. The wife would then have the responsibilities of working, housework and caregiving all at once (48).
And he doesn't understand what bitch means and they keep calling him a bitch. And his sister was raped and I think killed. So I get why he shoots Tom in the stomache and leaves him to die. I mean, I'd be pretty pissed, too, if that happened to me. If the play used different language it wouldn't be as good of a play.
I feel bad and sad for the victims, because a woman can’t do anything when a man punches her. “Abusers often attempt to control and isolate victims in an effort to guard the secret of abuse and because of their jealously of any attention their partners may give or receive from family, friends, or coworkers” (Gagné 19). As the time passes, women will have bruising, bleeding, and scars that will never heal. A man hits a woman probably because he wants to act “macho”. He might be drunk or he only does it because he likes it.
As a nurse, I have found that the anger the family shows to the staff taking care of the dying patient is not really directed at the staff, but at themselves. The family feels helpless, frustrated, and at times guilty because they want to do more for their loved one but at the same time, deep in their own hearts they know there isn't one thing they can do. When their loved one finally dies, it is much easier to displace their feeling on the other people because I believe it makes it easier, at the time, to deal with the death. During my first year in nursing I was taking care of a dying patient with cancer. The patient's doctor had already talked with the family and informed them that the patient had about a couple days left to live.
Without any doubt or question, we can say that the family members are mostly prone to stress and are in dilemma. In every case, the blame and the effect is equally shared by the family members too. A study by B I Thomas Kutty named Family stress and Care of mental patients revealed the fact that the family members of the mentally ill are facing severe stress in their personal and the societal life. These stresses and the negative attitudes of the family member’s infact have a great deal of influence in the social adjustment of the mentally ill. The main reason for the poor social adjustment of the mentally ill is pointed towards the attitude of the family members towards the mental illness and mentally ill. Not only the society, family also viewed the mental illness as an incurable fate and hence were put inside the bars and are stigmatized in every day situation.