I posted a comment about this, but I think it's worthy of a post. I will summarize very briefly.
In 1973, David Rosenhan, a psychologist, published a study of mental institutions that basically went viral. In "On Being Sane in Insane Places" Rosenhan claimed to have sent 12 average people to voluntarily be assessed by different mental institutions. He catalogued the diagnoses they received and how long they spent institutionalized. This study was shocking in purporting to show how poorly diagnoses work and in exposing flaws in treatment. His claims, followed in 1975 by the famous movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest essentially killed off institutionalization in the United States and around the world. Those who supported chemically treatments, as opposed to psychotherapy and hospitalization, won a resounding victory, and that's the world we live in today.
The only problem is, Rosenhan's paper was a complete work of fiction, and he lied repeatedly about the experiment, about the results of the experiment, even about the people in the experiment. Rosenhan, himself was one of the participants, and the alleged experimental protocols that participants were supposed to follow simply did not exist. When experiences didn't match what he was looking for, he simply dismissed and ignored them, and made up 'alternative facts' instead.
Investigative reporter Susannah Calahan and history of psychiatry professor Andrew Scull have thoroughly destroyed Rosenhan's paper and results, and yet it is still the most formative and influential piece of work in the field in at least the last 75 years.
Andrew Scull's lengthy article. I highly recommend reading it all:
https://gwern.net/doc/psychiatry/schizophrenia/rosenhan/2023-scull.pdf
Archive: https://archive.is/fqt8z
This needs to be more widely known. Along with the perverted Kinsey (enough said) and the fraudster Ancel Keys, of the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, whose work lead directly to the false belief that "all fat is bad" and who is personally responsible for the high-carb low-fat diet trends of the 1960s on that have killed hundreds of millions, it shows the power that corrupt, fraudulent, and narrative-driven activist scientists can have on reshaping society around us.
No, we should NOT "trust the science," and to say otherwise is distinctly anti-scientific.
You can visit people in different locations, and see the difference. I visited two people in different places, one was like a fucking spa. One looked, and treated them like they were in jail.
What's odd is that I've wondered if the prisons are actually better at taking care of mental health patients over the mental health hospitals because there's more accountability in the prisons.
Prisons play games with human lives. Doctors are choosing to go there for higher pay, and better hours currently.
If the prisoner doesn't have their primary doctor do paperwork making the prison doctor responsible for the prisoner, it won't negatively effect the prison doctors license in any way. The prisoner can be ignored, bullied with non compliance, including with allergies, and serious diseases.
I've shared here before my lil bro lost his eye, and had a cornea replacement. That is something thy requires anti rejection meds. Those meds are cheap, and can't get anyone high. After being told my lil brother wasn't getting that, I called about it. I had to get all, " Spell your name" to get the instructions on how to make sure lil bro got those meds. It was too late, his eye was foggy when he ws found not guilty.
I'm sorry to hear that, and I don't doubt that it happened. My question is, "would a mental health hospital even taken your call?". From the stories I've heard from the people who audited them, even spouses couldn't reach people inside, and no other medical information was being accepted from outside unless asked for.
Mental health includes junkies detoxing. They don't get to have outside interaction. When I was with one loved one, the main room shared a payphone and someone got a call meant for an employee. Because they had the same FIRST name!
With hospitals you have to be put on list. The patient is entirely at the mercy of who's working, and how uch they care. My loved one was prompted to put a long list of people even though they wanted privacy. The nurse had seen people feel unloved because they forgot they didn't put anyone on the list.
As for auditing, the drugs is where they get caught up.