Selah Dickerson - Dorothea Dix's Mental Health Reform
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- Dorothea Dix, a teacher from Hampden, ME, had fallen ill many times while teaching. This time, she decided to travel overseas to Europe, where she met prison reformers who wanted better living conditions for mentally ill people. When Dix returned to her home in Boston, she was asked to teach Sunday school at this prison, and saw these mentally ill people imprisoned in awful conditions.
- GOODNESS GRACIOUS!! THIS IS HORRIBLE!
- Once her eyes had been opened about the cruel treatment of mentally ill persons, from then on she did everything she could to get them better living conditions. She toured prisons around 15 states and in Canada, collecting extensive research, and then using it to persuade state legislators to establish (or expand) asylums for the mentally ill in the area. This was very successful.
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- After achieving her dream of making America a better place for the mentally ill, which took her some 45 years, she refocused her efforts on being a nurse , and getting soldiers better medical attention during the civil war. She was appointed Superintendent of Army Nurses during her years serving in the army. She was originally trying to help the Union soldiers, as she was from a northern state, and was allied with the Union. However, being someone who was kind and compassionate to all people, she and her nurses quickly gained a reputation of helping all soldiers, Union or Confederate.Their work was a success, and it revolutionized nursing in war, and also the medical field in general.
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