All of the men in Broadmoor present a grave and immediately risk to the public … They have no release date. ibid.
Broadmoor can feel like a ghost town. ibid.
The reminder of the threat of violence is ever-present. ibid.
‘Cut my own throat a couple of times.’ ibid. ‘Alex’
Food is the only thing they have free rein over. ibid.
It costs £300,000 a year to keep a patient in Broadmoor. ibid.
Whenever force is used, staff take time out to re-appraise. On average there are five physical assaults a week on staff. ibid.
Broadmoor is home to 200 men, each carefully assigned to one of fifteen wards. ibid.
After many critical reports the government sent in new managers to reform the hospital. Inside Broadmoor, 2002
In 2000 Broadmoor used arm and leg shackles as part of the treatment for a mentally retarded man. ibid.
It costs £60 million a year and has 1,200 staff. ibid.
Broadmoor let Dadd have a studio. ibid.
When a patient escaped, the local schools were closed. ibid.
‘Three pairs of size ten boots started to go into me.’ ibid. ex-patient
People still had to slop out. ibid.
After the allegations of the 1980s the government set up the Mental Health Act Commission to protect patients’ rights. ibid.
We’ve talked to seven ex-patients: all complain of neglect or abuse. ibid.
Seclusion is still a problem we discovered. ibid.
I love being inside of the 405 freeway in my car. Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 ***** 40.06, Mindy, 2017
I was pretty much a basket-case. ibid.
‘To be given a scholarship by him; it’s one of the most amazing gifts anyone has ever given me. ibid.
Why did she [mother] ask me to leave instead of him [father]? ibid.
She [mother] had a physical repulsion to me. ibid.
Just grief painting pictures in her brain. Side Effects 2013 starring Jude Law & Rooney Mara & Catherine Zeta-Jones & Channing Tatum & Vinessa Shaw & Ann Dowd & Polly Draper & David Costible & Mamie Gummer & Scott Shepherd et al, director Steven Soderbergh, Banks
Everyone takes them … It just makes it easier for you to be who you are. ibid.
It’s like there’s this poisonous fog-bank rolling in on my mind and I’m paralysed. ibid. Emily to Banks with Martin
She kills people in her sleep too. ibid. Banks
‘It’s obviously the lads struggling a bit with mental health problems.’ Prison II: Mental Health, clean-up inmate
Durham: a growing number of men are coming in with mental health problems. ibid.
All mental health services in the prison are provided by the NHS. ibid.
Once in the prison he quickly seeks confrontation. ibid.
One hundred years ago this hospital was full of young men who’d been wounded in the battlefields of the First World War. But the people here weren’t just suffering from physical wounds, many of them were terribly mentally scared by the trauma of battle. By the end of the First World War something like a quarter of a million British servicemen were suffering from the effects of a mysterious illness. Dan Snow, WWI’s Secret Shane: Shell Shock, BBC 2018
No-one could find a cure. And in the one hundred years since the First World War it has resurfaced in every major conflict. ibid.
World War I triggered an avalanche of psychiatric casualties. ibid.
In the past 50 years the Iraqi people have endured 3 major wars, a coup and a bloody purge, as well as tyrannical repression, two insurgencies, invasion by the Islamic State group and a sectarian civil war. Iraq: A State of Mind, BBC 2019
‘I don’t know how to explain it. She’s [child] in shock … She lost her mind.’ ibid. mother
There is only 1 psychiatrist for every 300,000 people in Iraq … Al-Rashad is the only psychiatric hospital in Iraq, a country with a population of 38 million. ibid. captions
Prison is about submission and compliance. This is no place for teenage defiance … They blasted her cell with pepper spray. It’s just another day in the life of inmate Ashley Smith. The Fifth Estate: Ashley Smith: Out of Control, CBC 2007
It [video tape] exposes just how kids with mental health and behavioural problems are treated behind bars in this country. ibid.
By Grade 8 Ashley was failing and she was regularly getting expelled for being defiant, disrespectful and disruptive. ibid.
She managed to accumulate 800 documented incidents. ibid.
After almost three years in solitary confinement [accumulated from a one-month sentence] at the New Brunswick youth centre 18-year-old Ashley Smith has been moved to an adult prison. ibid.
‘Please don’t taser me! I’m scared!’ ibid. Ashley
Ashley would strangle herself often several times a day. ibid.
She was never fully assessed or meaningfully treated. She was never in one place long enough. ibid.
From the time he was out of the womb Chazz Petrella was a boy on the go. But soon that energy was too much for even Chazz to control. Mental illness was something the Petrellas like most families didn’t understand. There were programmes, professionals … nine different agencies had Chazz and his family on their books. The Fifth Estate: Chazz Petrella: The Boy Who Should Have Lived, CBC 2015
Chazz couldn’t seem to focus. When he got frustrated he got aggressive … The drugs kept him awake at night and his behaviour got worse. ibid.
They’d often find him just sitting in a tree. ibid.
At the age of ten Chazz Petrella ended up in an institution … He was the youngest by far and complained the older kids bullied him. ibid.
For some reason those tests never happened. ibid.
He left no note. ibid.
Three girls who were all ten years old went out to the woods. Two of them conspired to kill the third. Slender Man, dude, CI 2019
Girl Pleads Insanity in Slenderman Stabbing Case. ibid. newspaper rubric
… Slender Man Stabbing: Geyser Could Go Home After Only Six Months. ibid.
Slender Man was created out of a form … ibid. Professor Kendrick, Baylor University
Stab Stab Stab Stab Stab. It didn’t feel like anything. It was like air. ibid. Weier to investigating rozzer
Doctors diagnose Morgan with early onset schizophrenia during her competency evaluation. Her attorneys immediately petition to have her case moved to juvenile court. ibid.
In July of 2014 the court orders Morgan to begin the process of restoring her competency at Winnebago Mental Health Institute. By November of 2014 Morgan Geyser was found competent to stand trial. Despite being diagnosed schizophrenic, she was transferred back to jail from Winnebego Mental Health Institute without a treatment plan. ibid. captions
In 2015 Morgan Geyser’s team began work on its mental illness defence. ibid.
Girl Pleads Insanity in Slenderman Stabbing Case. ibid.
I’m going to order that the commitment be 40 years. ibid. Judge
We all know someone who has struggled with their mental health. Over the next three weeks I’ll see what life is like on a hectic mental health ward. Speaking to patients on the edge and the staff trained to help them. To see how tough life is on both sides of the glass. Stacey Dooley: On the Psych Ward, BBC 2020
Last year I spent time on a hectic mental health ward seeing how tough life is for patients on the edge. And those trying to help them. A year on with Coronavirus messing up all our lives I’ve come back. Stacey Dooley: Back on the Psych Ward, BBC 2021
Seacole is the only dedicated residential ward in the NHS offering 24-hour nursing care to patients with severe Obsessive Compulsion Disorder. Since Covid the demand for beds has shot up; the waiting list is now over a year. ibid.