A Historic Treatment For Mental Illness, The Spinning Chair. #nopestalgia #history
Glanmore Presents A Historic Treatment For Mental Illness, The Spinning Chair. In the early 1800s a new treatment for mania and agitation developed. Strap the patient into a chair and rotate them! The theory was that by inducing vertigo and creating physical sensation the patient may be calmed. Some even thought the rotation may “reset” the nervous system. It is possible that some people would have found this helpful, but for most it was likely just a nauseating carnival ride at a time when they were already distressed. #nopestalgia #victorianmedicine #museum #museumtok #victorian #victoriantiktok #history #historytok #victorianera #victorianaesthetic #victorianfashion #victorianhouse #quinteareamuseums #quinte #bellevilleontario #discoverbelleville #southeasternontario #glanmore
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I wanna be in the spinny chair!!! >:D
Nah I don’t think so.
Next time I have a panic attack, I'm gonna stand in the living room and spin until I'm dizzy. I'll update you on how it goes.
Update: Didn't take long, it's been a rough week. It…kinda helped? I wouldn't recommend a chair. The exercise felt nice, and the sensation was kinda grounding. I didn't spin for very long because it made the nausea of the panic attack worse, but the most effective part was that the dizziness forced me to sit down and take a damn breath, and distracted me a little from the panic. It didn't solve the problem, but it jostled me out of it a little and might have made it easier to calm down because it made me do things that actually help with a panic attack: take a deep breath, focus on something besides the panic, and lay down for a little while. If you're panicking, give a couple twirls, it's worth a shot.
If you'll excuse me, I'm gonna lay down and breathe quietly.
"some patients prove troublesome with a proclivity for inducing or acting as if in a fit simply to seek out the treatment."
Huh, a treatment for something that didn't involve mercury. I'll be damned.
I mean I get it. I’m autistic. I do like to spin in a spinny chair to stim. But uhh idk how much fun it would be against my will
OMG, stimming chair! They weren't exactly wrong in the theory. But as usually, not right in all approaches 😅😅
Why does this make perfect sense to me? The sensation of spinning like that sounds so calming, it would slow down my brain.
Thought bro was getting hung there in the beginning lmao
At least it didn't poison you.
The platform could have been for the sake of not being sprayed with vomit as well
I do find spinning fun, only for a limited time tho
Holy Crap
Reminds me of the methods used on King George III, who was probably Bipolar.
Despite being King, his mental health crisis team (a Methodist priest and a few lads) had the power to restrain him, and would strap him into a chair when he went funny.
Me over here suffering from chronic conditions that give me actual vertigo losing my mind even more because of it
I’m schizophrenic and spinning as violently as I can REALLY helps agitation, hallucinations, and general irritability. I can’t get myself going as fast as I want- patients back then similar to me probably saw a lot of benefit from this! I’ve been doing it since I was a kid, so the nausea was almost nonexistent.
woah! since spinning is a common self-soothing technique for autistic people, this feels like it couldve been an early treatment technique for those on the spectrum who struggled with emotional regulation! i can imagine this would be quite upsetting/inhumane if it the treatment was applied without the patient fully agreeing to it though
Was there anything they didn't try when trying to find cures😂
Lmao
I mean actually sounds like some stimming hanging chairs that exist today
Well, they did stop thinking about how awful their life was for a cuple of minutes when they were throwing up so it kinda worked 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
What? No cocaine or radium?
🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀
The song!!! Omg!!!
You make history interesting!!
The mental treatment of the past was crazy, at least they didn't strap you to the bed and tried to ignore you