Antipsychotic medications was introduced in the 1960s which really helped the symptoms that they were having.They even discovered what kind of symptoms they were having to determine what was the illness that they were having.Then in 1963, Congress passed and John F. Kennedy signed the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act, which provided federal support and funding for community mental health centers (National Institute of Health, 2013). This allowed large asylums to be shut down and patients to be helped instead of being tortured and harmed for no apparent reason. The way the mentally ill was treated has came a long way since the 18th and19th
Antipsychotic medications was introduced in the 1960s which really helped the symptoms that they were having.They even discovered what kind of symptoms they were having to determine what was the illness that they were having.Then in 1963, Congress passed and John F. Kennedy signed the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act, which provided federal support and funding for community mental health centers (National Institute of Health, 2013). This allowed large asylums to be shut down and patients to be helped instead of being tortured and harmed for no apparent reason. The way the mentally ill was treated has came a long way since the 18th and19th