#like if u hear about someone in a psych facility being violent i pretty much always hear it nowadays in terms of someone being

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I think it’s very interesting how Renfield/mental health in general are treated. Today we have “he is usually such a well-behaved man, and except his violent fits” which I don’t think is an attitude you’d really see toward Renfield’s particular behavior today. There’s a definite element of infantilization (see: the way they talk about the visitor not taking offense because it’s a madhouse, lots of general little quirks in phrasing) but I think that someone in a psychiatric institution today who attacks an administrator with a knife and draws blood doesn’t get nearly as much understanding, no matter how little they’re in control of their actions. I think today that’d get you a longterm label of being trouble, definitely not someone staff referred to as well-behaved no matter how isolated the incident

#ink post #dracula #dracula daily #meta #this is hopefully a cogent thought lol. just like. i feel like today one (1) violent outburst gets someone some rlly hardcore labelling #thats rlly hard to shake. and i think it contributes largely to the ways that the way we treat mentally ill ppl HAVENT improved since drac #like if u hear about someone in a psych facility being violent i pretty much always hear it nowadays in terms of someone being #too dangerous even if theyre released and managing their condition and like being spoken of like an inhuman monster #or used to talk about like autistic ppl in rlly dehumanizing ways and justify rough physical treatment for 'staff safety' #like theres a definite point at which some mental health pros view a high needs autistic person as dangerous bc they knew another patient #who got physical. even if this specific patient never has. thats the language you ALWAYS see when theres a story abt abuse