I have a tiny bit of knowledge here (UK)- My dad was a big guy, a mental health nurse, and a monster. I grew up on stories of how he and other nurses piled on patients that were having issues, restraining them forcefully, hurting them deliberately.
If you were a "problem" patient then you might get an injected sedative, and if the nurses didn't like you then that syringe might be dragged along the wall to dull the tip.
Patients were force-fed pills if they refused to take them. If they were begging to see a doctor they'd be ignored. If they were hurt it wasn't a priority because "they probably did it to themselves".
Of course, I only have the word of one very bad man to go on, but every story had the same elements- Most of the nurses abused the patients and it was funny because the patients were less than human.
So yeah, UK mental health hospitals from the late 90s to around 2010 were not good places to be.
I have a tiny bit of knowledge here (UK)- My dad was a big guy, a mental health nurse, and a monster. I grew up on stories of how he and other nurses piled on patients that were having issues, restraining them forcefully, hurting them deliberately.
If you were a "problem" patient then you might get an injected sedative, and if the nurses didn't like you then that syringe might be dragged along the wall to dull the tip.
Patients were force-fed pills if they refused to take them. If they were begging to see a doctor they'd be ignored. If they were hurt it wasn't a priority because "they probably did it to themselves".
Of course, I only have the word of one very bad man to go on, but every story had the same elements- Most of the nurses abused the patients and it was funny because the patients were less than human.
So yeah, UK mental health hospitals from the late 90s to around 2010 were not good places to be.
I would have thought most of these games are played in a pre-modern setting!