Researching your ancestors’mental health
Understanding your ancestors is an important part of tracing your family history. Here Dr Simon Wills provides helpful information to help shed light on a once-hidden aspect of people’s lives
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While the orderly looking wards evoke a calm environment for the care of patients with mental health issues, the instruments of restraint and medication tell a different story. These photos show separate women’s and men’s ward
In the past, mental illness often evoked fear, disapproval, even shame and many victims received poor treatment and little sympathy. Yet there’s more scope to research mental illness than many other medical issues and there are several resources that might help you, as I’ll demonstrate.
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