Few creepy old photos are more disturbing than those captured inside the mental institutions of decades and centuries past.
Seen here is one of countless patients being restrained in a French mental institution in 1900. It’s unclear what condition this unfortunate patient suffered from. At the time, people could get committed for anything from depression and shell shock to schizophrenia and learning disabilities.
With the abuses of patients like this one happening behind closed doors, we’ll surely never known the extent of the trauma that these people suffered inside the institutions of old.
