Letter to the government of the United States.

To whom it may concern,

i am pleading, with not just you but many for better health care and research towards mental health. In the mental institution i work in, McLean Hospital for the mentally ill, Ive seem not one but many come in perfectly fine kids, with no mental issues whats so ever, but they leave different. The society we live in today, is different, a kid acts strange for one day, or he is different from others, and fingers begin to point toward him, with the harsh words, and they immediately think they are crazy or they have problems. Too many mothers have come to me asking for my help because they're kid is simply acting out, sometimes it can just be the becoming of adolescence, but they insist something is wrong with there child. Entering the doors to the mental institution they are fine, but leaving they are reckless, because they have been told they are crazy, and its what they believe.
Our hospital is over populated. During this last year our numbers have increased dramatically and in many other asylums as well. We are not fulfilling our peoples needs, if you put a real good thought, you would see too, that many of the people here, don't need to be here, they are just simply misunderstood, and need to leave before they do turn crazy.
Other than that devastating fact, there are many other reasons as to why more research is needed toward mental illness, our patients need better care, better treatments and alternatives. It is evident that the care provided is not working, some of our patients and in other hospitals have been there for years, never really able to achieve freedom or accept the illness they have in order to move on. The medicines, work but for a short period of time and in order for America to be a better place, these people need to be helped. please take this into consideration, come by our asylum, or any in America and you will see what i mean more clearly, you will see that they do need help.

sincerely,
Nurse of The McLean hospital for the mentally ill.
Joan Nedlent.


Reflection-
While i was writing my timeline, i learned that during the 1940's- 1950's there was a lot of overpopulation in mental asylums and many of the patients were simply misunderstood people thought they had mental problems but they did not have mental problems and they did not need treatment, so i decided to write a letter to the government regarding my concerns towards the topic, and i thought using a nurse as the writer would be perfect because they are the ones to watch everything and everyone and experience one on one with patients and can distinguish the ill from the ones that are not.