Show why more mental patients are now cured the number of mental abases cases Is increasing and number more than half the total 0 of patients la in all hospitals nevertheless the new methods in use to restore mental balance may more than keep up with this increasing number As you know the number now being restored to health Is about six of ev pry ery ten entering these mental institutions in former days a patient entered with a history of being sullen bullen and quiet or noisy and quarrelsome and lie he was treated with suspicion by the head bead physician right down to the lowest employee about the institution ue he was closely watched vat ched and was given little freedom ills food and rest were supervised but that was wan about all what do we find now dr W C in the journal of american medical association states that a patient enters a mental hospital not with symptoms but with problems what can be done tor for him it Is riot not sufficient that he be made physically comfortable rest and freedom from responsibility alone will not satisfy his bis or mental needs his problems must be studied intensively these problems must be interpreted or unraveled and some method of solving them be attempted solving the problem can be worked out in two ways first by making his bis surroundings pleasant or more agreeable than what he has had at home or elsewhere and second by a series of friendships scientifically arranged during his stay in the institution from the moment a patient enters the hospital an attempt should be made to provide him with surroundings suited to his needs and elbes to adapt the institution to him rather than adapt him to the institution scientifically controlled friendship is regarded as the chief factor in the process of recovery thus doctors nurses orderlies everybody around the institution maka mak it a point to bo be friendly and do everything possible to make the patient understand that they are anxious to bee him get well you can readily see how different this la is from the former methods where the patient was given food rest and a little eier exer olse dally daily as nothing more was thought necessary service |