My question might be outdated or I may be misinformed by watching too many moovies, but why do mental hospitals have “quiet rooms”? It feels more punishing than calming.
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If you’re referring to padded cells, then those are controversial and somewhat outdated. In the past, they were thought to be necessary to prevent patients from harming themselves or others. This is less often used now as there are more better methods of calming people down, but it is still used when people are considered a severe danger to themselves or others. It’s more about restraining someone than it is about calming them down, though they are designed to be pretty boring so whatever kind of episode the patient is experiencing will eventually pass.
If you’re talking more generally about noise restrictions, then that is because some patients can become overstimulated by loud noise and it is harmful to them.
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