The World's Oldest Psychiatric Institution | Bedlam Episode 1- 4 | True Lives

Episode 1 Documentary. The world's oldest psychiatric institution - the South London and Maudsley (SLaM) - opens its doors in a brand new four-part series, challenging the myths, taboos and stigma around mental illness in Britain. Anxiety has become the mental illness of our time. The NHS issues around seven million tranquiliser prescriptions every year. At the Bethlem Royal Psychiatric Hospital in south London, a specialist anxiety unit treats some of the most extreme cases in Britain - the top one per cent. Most suffer with extreme OCD Episode 2 Documentary. The world's oldest psychiatric institution - the South London and Maudsley (SLaM) - opens its doors in a brand new four-part series, challenging the myths, taboos and stigma around mental illness in Britain. At Lambeth Hospital in south London, the Trust has pioneered the use of short-stay emergency wards for patients in crisis. It's effectively run like A and E but for those with mental illness. Cameras are granted access for the first time to a world where critical decisions about risk are taken every day by psychiatrists and nurses. It works like a sorting office. Over the course of a few days clinicians assess patients and decide whether they are stable enough to return home or whether they need to go on to a longer stay psychiatric ward. Most patients are considered a danger to themselves or others and have either been sectioned under the powers of the Mental Health Act or have come in voluntarily. Episode 3 Documentary series. - the South London and Maudsley (SLaM) - opens its doors in this four-part series, challenging the myths, taboos and stigma around mental illness in Britain. Mental illness is a sensitive topic, but with one in five adults having suffered from depression it is a subject that can no longer be ignored. With exclusive access to one of the UK''s largest psychiatric institutions, Bedlam strips away the taboos to investigate the politics, economics and medical truth about modern mental health. With first-hand accounts by doctors and nurses on the frontline as well as unprecedented footage of cutting edge treatment, the series gets under the skin of sanity as never seen before uncovering the characters and personalities behind the stigma and statistics Documentary series on mental health in Britain. In the final episode of Bedlam, cameras gain access to a psychiatric ward for over 65s at the South London and Maudsley (SLaM). According to psychiatrist, Professor Robert Howard, "In society old people and people with mental health problems come right at the bottom of the heap really. So, if you are old and you have got mental health problems, you have got this sort of dreadful double whammy of disadvantage. Subscribe to True Lives: https://bit.ly/3dBMxvl [Insert Video Description/Synopsis Here] This film was first broadcast: [Insert Date Here] Check us out on Facebook:   / ourstorieschannel   Watch More Documentaries True Lives - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Taste - https://bit.ly/3OZoDcV Our Life brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform. Content distributed by ITV Studios. #truelives #crime #documentary #psychiatrist #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness