After the First World War, society started to slowly recognise mental illness as an illness and treat it as such. The old treatments of confinement, leeches, cold baths, mercury, chains, straight-jackets, and electric shock gradually disappeared, with new approaches...
The First World War changed attitudes towards mental illness considerably after so many men returned from the fighting with serious psychological conditions. What came to be known as ‘shell-shock’ had a massive impact upon...
Olivia’s recent blog post¬†about girls with mental illness in Victorian society got me thinking. While Emilie Autumn sheds light on this dark tale in her song, it occurred to me that attitudes towards mental illness have changed many times throughout...
“Girls! Girls! Girls!”, written and performed by American artist Emilie Autumn, immediately grabbed my attention as something unusual. It‚Äôs upbeat tempo and show-tune quality made it instantly likeable for me. But behind the happy melody...
On June 12, 2016, an armed gunman entered Pulse, a gay night club in Orlando, FL, and killed 49 people. Nearly all of the victims of the shooting were Latino, and nearly half were Puerto Rican. Since the massacre, which was the deadliest mass shooting in the history...
