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Thankfully, being transgender is no longer seen as a mental illness. Neurodiverse people are now coming to the forefront as well as people who simply see the world differently and are not "mentally ill".
After years of struggling socially, I stumbled upon Asperger's syndrome and found that it literally explained everything about the way I view the world and interact with others. Yes, my childhood was very tough because I was medicated and misunderstood but had I been born 50 years ago, I would have been shipped off to an asylum! Thank God we're making some progress as a society at least.
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Mental: A History of the Madhouse BBC (2010)
 Mental: A History of the Madhouse is a BBC documentary film released in 2010 that sheds light on the mental asylums of the United Kingdom. Earlier in the 20th century mental asylums were places for the morally and mentally deprived; madness was considered to be nothing more than an act of god on the unfortunate and that is the reason why asylums were created were people who had become mad would be kept separate from the society; it was considered best to keep such people off the streets and this seems like the appropriate thing to do as well. That is why asylums were created. A famous psychiatrist RD Lang once said that “Insanity is the sane response of living in an insane world.” Mental: A History of the Madhouse is an intriguing documentary film from BBC, of Britain’s unorthodox mental asylums consisting of the patients and staff who served and were treated in them before they closed. http://www.thegreatplanet.com/mental...c-documentary/
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