This brilliant episode succinctly illustrates psychiatrys attitude towards the mentally ill.
Once you're labelled as being mentally ill then no matter how much you recover, the system will always see you as being mentally ill.
The more you say you aren't mentally ill they more ill they insist you are and the more they will drug you up.
Harry Orwell finds this out the hard way.
A sadly accurate and chilling episode as things and psychiattic stereotypes still haven't changed or been modified almost 50 years later.
Harry O is one of those rare series that tactfully challenges social stereotypes. Maybe that was the problem.
Sledgehammer has always been more understood and popular than tact and subtlety.
Once you're labelled as being mentally ill then no matter how much you recover, the system will always see you as being mentally ill.
The more you say you aren't mentally ill they more ill they insist you are and the more they will drug you up.
Harry Orwell finds this out the hard way.
A sadly accurate and chilling episode as things and psychiattic stereotypes still haven't changed or been modified almost 50 years later.
Harry O is one of those rare series that tactfully challenges social stereotypes. Maybe that was the problem.
Sledgehammer has always been more understood and popular than tact and subtlety.