Surviving Atrocities at a Mental Institution
Today on Unfiltered Stories, Banning Lyon shares his harrowing journey of enduring horrific abuse as a teenager behind the locked doors of a mental institution. Held captive as part of a horrific insurance scandal, Banning’s story is an unapologetically honest account of survival and overcoming unspeakable trauma. His memoir reveals an unflinching yet unexpectedly relatable tale of redemption and finding family, even when everyone else seemed to have abandoned him. Join us to hear Banning’s powerful story of resilience and hope.
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39 Comments
What so u need to be military.
So what ur saying there were trying to see if ur a physio or ur a just a man
Its sick what they did
I hope he visited that tree outside his window when he left.
Not accepting thanks
Did he say what facilitiy he was at? Dont feel like re watching from detail but would like to see if it is still there. crazy how many of these mental institutions were proven to just be torture camps
Not accepting thanks
After isolating you from any family or friends or even anyone your age and put you in a cage, you're depressed so basically, we're going to keep imprisoning you.
Reading the psalms God will not forget the abused, the orphans and widows and God will give justice at the end of days. Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.
How was a place like that, who treats children like that, legal?!!!! The parents and the adults who ran that hospital were horrible and should be criminally prosecuted!
The quiet background music is awful, IMO.
people running that hospital need to be killed
Wait–how are you gonna skip from him living with family to him going into the hospital? You don't think maybe that deserves an explanation? Seems like a pretty big plot hole, my guy.
Please always deeply listen and try harder to understand eaxh other ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
No doubt. This Earth or Malkuth is The Real Hell.
7:58 "My only joy in life was to see the treë". What happened to him was horrible. It was not a hospital, more like a prison. He seems eloquent, and there was so much hope in his voice towards the end of the video. Wishing him the best in life.
i've been to institutions both voluntarily and involuntarily and while i've healed since then, the shit that i experienced in those places sticks with me to this day. my c-ptsd, while better and easier to manage, still rears its head from time to time. it's crazy to me that some of the things i experienced actually happened. these institutions need more funding, better staff, better care, better environments… i've had good and bad experiences with them, but i majorly found the most help from outpatient 1-on-1 therapy than anything inpatient. we need reform.
ive seen this stuff happen at mental hospitals before. i struggle with bi polar and i usually am released because i can fake by having good behavior. but there was a guy there that had schizophrenia and he was there for months. i just dont understand why you would hold someone there for that long when hes clearly not a danger to himself or others. yeah he might need support but mental hospitals arent supposed to be a prison. but it feels that way even if you are simply depressed. they keep people there for too long and its actually scary if you are in there because you dont know when youre gonna be let out. im very lucky and privileged that i get to walk out and enjoy the fresh air. alot of people cannot fake it and genuinely do want help its heartbreaking.
Name the facility, name the doctors!
Sell your story and cash out baby!
Would get such violent vengeance on the dad and medical staff.
Just know you mom, dad, and all the people T that facility will and are already burning in hell
Complete weak man of a father hope he dies slowly and alone i could never abandon my kids.
The background music makes me grind my teeth. The same 16 bars over and over…
His parents broke him in other words
When l worked in s hospital there were people eho had been there for a long time and the staff had no idea why they were there
Too many cold hearted evil people in this world, unfortunately.
I wouldnt even call myself a survivor of mental institutions. I barely even live after ive been through the atrocities ive been through
how do people that work in these facilities get up and go to work every day and think they're the good guys?
Man… sitting in a chair staring at the wall for 12 HOURS A DAY is torture that's just awful
Wow❤🙏🏼
Is that music loop supposed to emulate the torture of the hospital?
This man and the other children in that unit was tortured.
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Thank you brave man. Thank you.
Everyone involved should have their faces curb stomped. I don't regret these words
Wow, this is devastating. I am so very sorry that you had to go through that 😢
Inhuman treatment for the people who need kindness and compassion the most. Thank you for sharing such a personal account.
Lawsuit was too good for those scum. Double tap to the back of the head is what they deserved, coupled with eternity in hell