This is not about the Metallica song, although it has to do with angst in general 
Have you ever visited a mental institution? I do not ask if you have been hospitalized in one, merely if you have ever been inside one.
I once visited one. They appear to be places with very calming atmosphere, ideal for the patients who are there to get better.
I do not recall much from it, it was on a low hill top, surrounded by trees. The only anecdotal (up to now) piece from that visit remaining in my memory was a mental patient who looked at me and asked me for "bread". I later questioned the lead therapist there why this happened, and he replied that probably the patient identified me (symbolically) with his father, who was responsible for feeding him (both literally and metaphorically; with advise and discussion).
Being schizoid i too have been in therapy, but never hospitalized since i never posed any threat to others or myself. So i have heard many stories about mental institutions, some of which are horrible indeed (have to do with self-mutilation for example). But these places, when run correctly by able doctors are very useful, and their ultimate goal is to re-introduce the patients to society, at least to a viable degree.
And on that note i will wait for any reflections you have on this matter Dachs probably has read Der Zauberberg and in that case knows of the Berghof Sanitarium, where a youth went for a two week visit and ended up staying for seven years 
Have you ever visited a mental institution? I do not ask if you have been hospitalized in one, merely if you have ever been inside one.
I once visited one. They appear to be places with very calming atmosphere, ideal for the patients who are there to get better.
I do not recall much from it, it was on a low hill top, surrounded by trees. The only anecdotal (up to now) piece from that visit remaining in my memory was a mental patient who looked at me and asked me for "bread". I later questioned the lead therapist there why this happened, and he replied that probably the patient identified me (symbolically) with his father, who was responsible for feeding him (both literally and metaphorically; with advise and discussion).
Being schizoid i too have been in therapy, but never hospitalized since i never posed any threat to others or myself. So i have heard many stories about mental institutions, some of which are horrible indeed (have to do with self-mutilation for example). But these places, when run correctly by able doctors are very useful, and their ultimate goal is to re-introduce the patients to society, at least to a viable degree.
And on that note i will wait for any reflections you have on this matter
Dachs probably has read Der Zauberberg and in that case knows of the Berghof Sanitarium, where a youth went for a two week visit and ended up staying for seven years 
