>>56059517No, actually. I've known a friend of a friend whose family had one hell of a time trying to get an uncle out of an institution, stonewalled at every possible turn, and I've seen some accounts on tumblr talk about how they *definitely* developed more symptoms if not outright new illnesses from being in an institution. Myself, I've only had normal therapy to try to get myself to focus better in grade school.
Still, mental health is a casual interest of mine, and I tend to at least scan through news/investigative articles when it comes up - ProPublica recently ran a couple items about a NY "school" for mentally ill children where staff beat the kids, made them sleep on the floor, all but locked them in a padded room (illegal in some nearby states), and probably sexually abused them, too.
