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The severely mentally were removed from society during the period
where the asylum system was created. The "mad" were housed through an
act of compassion that is seen by the anthropologists Foucault as a
great evil.

After the second World War the development of neuroleptics spearheaded
the release of society's unwanted. It did not end the Great Confinement
nor significantly improve the lives of the severely mentally ill.

The early typical antipsychotics left many individuals as zombies. They
were stripped of all anima. The individuals' very nature was concealed.
Their being remained unacceptable and only their castrated forms allowed
to shuffle amongst the automotons.

In 2010 these same unusual behaviours or ways of being are still treated
the same way. The key symptom that society wants removed is madness
itseslf: the very characteristic of these different individuals. The
meachanism is the description of their being and genetic type as
"severally ill" so the pseudo-disease can be removed.

The turn of the new millenium saw a hope for the severely mentally ill:
antistigma health promotion campaigns. This marked a chance in the
treatment of those that society rejected. It was these that asked
society to accept that there are different types of human beings,
different behaviours and different experiences of consciousness.

The fundamental stigma of madness goes back beyond psychiatry. It is as
deeply ingrained as the prejudices against homosexuality, but those
changed and are still changing.

In 2010 though the mad can have no pride. Their only solace is suicide -
death of madness and individuality by medication or just death. The
former is preferred by carers and the latter by people with lived
experience.