Woman locked in shed for 25 years

[QueenOfQuotes]

omg and very

PPH was laughing at the word, not the story...

Jeez, you lot, sometimes the smell of sanctimony of MN is suffocating.

But it was inappropriate due to the story

If I found the thread title funny, whitch I dont, I would have the sense to to not mention it.

No,I think if you look at her post of 9.17 she WAS laughing at the story as well as the thread title!
I'm afraid I agree with the others and I don't think anyone was being santimonious,Snafu,just shocked at the story.

don't think so, snafu

The story is shocking and awful, it is appalling that such a thing can happen.

However in defence of PPH, I can see the Monty Python-esq potential of the thread title.

yes you are right, she was laughing at the story too dropinthe, must have missed that post before..............unbelievable

I don't think it's sanctimonious to disagree, the thread title isn't IMO funny even trying to read it out of context?

I still don't see where she was laughing at the story.

I don't find the word Shed funny.
However, the thread title does somehow conjure up an image of Hyacinth Bucket locked in the shed in some daft Brit sitcom.
If PPH finds that funny (or her own version), so what? That's up to her, she can say what she likes, no?
I am surprised so many have reacted so much to this.
The story is sad, poor lamb. But it wn't be the last story like this we hear. There's nowt queer as folk.

I understand that we all have a bit of a weird sense of humour at times and it is not always to the taste of others There is no harm in that but her addition of 'still laughing' was unnecessary and cruel esp coming from someone whose own life is so privileged (as she is always telling us)If you really really think about that poor woman laughing would be the last thing on your mind

Cam/zippitippitoes: I work with people suffering from mental health problems that were 'institutionalised' 50 years ago because they were classed as 'mentally ill' and have never recovered from spending most of their lives in small rooms pumped full of 'medication.' A friend of mine (now in her sixties and a successful professional) had a breakdown 10 years ago and was strapped to a bed for days on end at a local hospital with a good reputation. Don't think it doesn't happen here. Mistreatment of people who are 'mentally ill' (read 'different') is surprisingly routine.

but MP - even those 'locked' in rooms in the UK - usually have space to move at least, or a bed! And usually even a proper floor!

It's not sanctimonious to disagree, of course not. It is sanctimonious to 'thank god' that you are compassionate and empathetic enough not to find the thread title inadvertently amusing. In my very humble opinion, of course...

Anywaaaaay, quite sure pph doesn't need me to defend her sense of humour (or lack of it, as the case may be)

QueenOfQuotes: Have you ever BEEN to rural India?! They don't have Winpy houses decked out with beech laminate with Silentnight mattresses...

And noddyholder - ALL our lives are massively privileged compared to that poor woman's, not just pph's - which is surely the point, is it not?

I worked in a residential psychiatric clinic in the seventies with patients such as you describe, some had been as you say incarcerated for crimes such as pregnancy/bearing illegitimate children, relationship with "inappropriate"man or to hide incest within the family and they had been institutionalised to the extent that they would have found it impossible to function elsewhere..but even then their care exceeded that outlined in this story.
It is this place (different owners now)
The Priory Ticehurst House

Psychiatric hospitals do not I'm sure operate as this woman's parents did in this story, there may be locked wards but the physical environment I've witnessed in recent years to date is more like a student hall of residence, with a measure of freedom for even acute patients. (unless you are talking about prisoners)

We are all privileged in comparison I agree but I am entitled to my opinion and am sticking with it

MP this wasn't in rural India it was in a town. And I should imagine if the father owns a shop (which was in some of the other reports about this story) they have some of the normal things such as beds in their brick houses.

And no I haven't been to rural India,

I've just re-read the 9.17 post and I think someone should change their name to princesspeabrain

this is horrible - but I don't think it's as simple as blaming the immediate family. There is usually a bigger picture to look at including cultural taboos and the state failure to support individuals and families like this

or even if they don't have beds - mattresses (of some descriptioin) or other. Even in mud huts in Africa they make 'mattresses' to sleep on!

QoQ: Orissa is the poorest part of India.

oh fgs she isnt lol at the story just the sentence as a title

I'm not saying it is justified - just that in places like India where lives are lived in such poverty, people who are mentally or physically disabled are often neglected or left to fend for themselves. And mentally 'ill' people are neglected all over the world, including here.

But it's clearly not normal practice in Orissa or she would not have been "rescued" from the situation and rehabilitated.