Mental Health Care, China Style
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Aug 26, 2011 16:14 JST
- Tags: BDSM, Bizarre, China, Chongqing, Crime, Medical, Mental Illness
The plight of a mentally ill man kept chained in a barn for 23 years by his elderly mother has lately been upsetting Chinese and non-Chinese alike.
The 40-year-old man has been kept chained up in a Chongqing barn for the past 23 years by his 74-year-old mother, who says he is mentally ill.
Perpetually confined to his barn with a 2m chain, his legs have withered and he can no longer walk.
He is not provided clothes as his mother claims he merely destroys them, and she maintains she cannot even afford bedding for him, so he sleeps on the bare floor.
According to his family, he was a healthy child and model pupil until advancing to middle school, where he lost interest in school and was eventually expelled. After that, he began to attack people around him, even attempting to set fire to their home, it is said.
Fear of further acts of arson and violence caused his family to chain him up like a ravening beast.
After 19 years of madness, in 2007 his family did have him seen by mental health professionals, resulting in them being granted an annual pittance with which to maintain him.
His mother, apparently concerned at what will become of her inmate when she passes away, tearfully explains his plight:
“I hope somebody can help me – I fear for the future for my poor boy when I am no longer here.
I have three children but although his brother and sister are normal he was never normal, and when he was 17 he became violent and smashed things.
We locked him in the barn and had to chain him to keep him there – and because he always ripped up his clothes we have to leave him naked.
Some kind neighbours donate food. Otherwise we wouldn’t manage.”
Similar incidents seems disturbingly common in China…
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I guess you can provide a better solution heh?
Send him to a mental institution where he will be separate from his family for the rest of his life?
Who to say the institute will treat him any more humane than his family?
Um, no one did nor implied. Its in China regardless so who knows (or even thinks) that an institution would be better. Just making an observation
There are state run facilities in the US that wouldn't be much of an improvement over this. They remind me of insane asylum scenes in "Amadeus".
Private facilities and private care are light years ahead of them, but you need money, and a lot of it.
None whatsoever.
Nothing. Just damn us all and bring the flood already.
At the very least, we at least see it's an extremely egregious case and can categorize it as such. If we didn't care at all then we'd truly be doomed.
I got my sick dose for the day.
I bet he enjoys opium
I bet you enjoy watermelon and third-rate chicken wings, negro.
Fuck this just fuck it
While it disgusts me that anyone was kept like that, I must give the mother at least an ounce of respect for not having him suffer an 'unfortunate accident'.
Pretty sure his life would be better if he did suffer an "unfortunate accident".
Agreed some things are worse than death, though who are we to say that for him, he should decide to live or die himself.
Nobody wants to die, Anon, our brains are wired with a very powerful self-preservation instinct.
don't think china govt will care anyway if ever the mother will pass away. Wish the author of site feature the actual mental institute of china not from one sided case from a slum but if it china i might think. is like gulag a communist prison in USSR.
You know.. In Soviet Russia the prison is in YOU.
If he suffered an infortunate accident he would have no life either.
I assume you meant death would be better than this.
Agree, he is suffering way more chained like that.
Can't say death is a better escape but this is arguable.
I am not sure I can agree. At that point, death sounds like a reasonable and perhaps even a merciful outcome. As sad and crazy as that may be..
Most likely...
23 years in a decrepit barn tied to a wall with a short chain, no clothes, a stone floor to sleep unto with no blanket, and probably little to no food.
Where's the respect here ?
sad to say, but i'd have to agree. total ignorance by the family. death would be the humane choice. so sad.
I know the region is subtropical but it still gets down in the 40s in January.
How did he not die of exposure is a mystery.
We all die. It's not like we live forever as long as we aren't stabbed or shot. We all die so I don't see what's "sad or crazy" about something that's inevitable. You WILL die. Learn it, accept it, embrace it, then fucking kill yourself.
Holy, I just hope that poor dude just have a better life after his death.
Srsly, he needs more humane respect than that.
Respect for that bitch ? Clearly you dont know what you are talking about.
Amen to that. The only "Ill" person here is that psychotic mother who kept her son chained up in a barn.
The guy is white as a sheet, for fuck's sake, he doesn't even get proper sunlight. The fact that someone could do this to a cognitive person... Prison wouldn't do this woman justice.
It's almost as bad as that Australian fellow who kept his daughter as a sex-slave in his basement.
I see what you did there.
I'm surprised they have 3 children...
like werent they only supposed to have one, unless they belonged to a minority? And they don't look like minority.
he's 40.. they didnt have the 1 child policy till not that long ago.. baka anon
in the country side the govt. doesn't really enforce that, and the fact the dude is 40, the policy isn't that old.
I wonder what his siblings thought of him being chained up......
It's really sad to see people suffering from such mental illness and had to be locked away.
Salute to the love from the mother!
And also, those ungrateful NEETs should take a look at this, then they will appreciate what they have.
I'm still surprise this site hates china so much. Regardless 95% of made material comes from China, because of cheap labor and over population. Just like the keyboard that you're writing in right now
Keep it up you're a piece of work.
Because 95% of the crap we have is made in china only makes me hate them MORE. They are the reason shit's so low quality these days, and all the corporations are going there cos they dont give a fuck.
do you even think before you type? seriously. try learning some facts before you make broad statements. but i suppose just being a racist prick is easier.
It is a fact. It doesn't take a business degree to know that. Cheap Labor= = More Profit with less loss.
He is no more of a racist prick than China is a human race.
Generally speaking people don't hate the Chinese per say. Just their ruthless and manipulative government.
@ Anon 16:48
Just when I thought seeing pictures of a kid taking a shit on a train car floor and people laying unconcerned in mountains of garbage was the bottom of the barrel, a new low appears.
You want to rule the world? Try elevating yourselves out of the 12th century first. Rather than building more planes tanks and nukes and buying aircraft carriers. How about spending the money on better mental health facilities.
Instead if pissing billions away on intimdating or invading neighboring countries try improving the rural infrastructure.
What the fuck could your government bring to another country anyways? More of this?
The PRC is a festering boil on the worlds ass. Fauning China fanboys really need to take a look in the mirror and stop blaming everybody else for your problems.
I agree China does not need to be wasting money on a massive military they don't need.
They also need to just let Taiwan and Tibet be independent as in the end it would be better for everyone.
Uh, why didn't he just slip out of the chain/and or escape somehow? Doesn't look too difficult judging by how skinny he is...Honestly, if I was him and my family had locked me in a barn like that, I would get the hell out of there!
His skinniness suggest malnutrition, not to mention that his legs no longer function. Add in a psychological prison from prolonged isolation. I doubt any of us have the willpower and luck to escape that.
They stole it from us!
My preciousssss....
Not funny
Really? I laughed.
In any case, taking into account what goes for food in China, I'm not surprised things like this are starting to become more common.
LOL i was thinking the same thing too!!
i see no humor in this. simply sad.
Confess! You stifled a laugh or you wouldn't be here. :P
thats a fucken good one!
there is a special place reserved for you in hell my friend
Hell is for the easily manipulated weak masses who need something to believe and direct their lives.
Hahahaha! Keep telling yourself that as people with a goal in life and something to focus on pass you by as you stand still, stuck in the same rut and shouting obscenities in a vain effort to look like you're making something of yourself and are above the masses.
It's so adorable.
@21:50
You keep telling yourself that following a death cult is a worthy goal of your life.
... said the lemming shortly before he reached his goal ...
You've pretty much described every Wednesday night for me.
Your life is what YOU make of it, not what some imaginary being tells you to make of it.
There is a special place in hell reserved for faggots with no sense of humour.
@ shoganai: i like humour who doesn't, but that wasn't a funny joke, it was just fucking slack. i bet you're the kinda people who laugh at jokes aimed at mentally retarded people. am i right? you low-life homophobic son of a filthy whore?
You're a sick fuck
And you call 2ch scum! The irony!
I swear it wasn't me! It was Anonymous!
Because making fun of a chinese guy half way around the world that will never read these jokes is the exact same as 2ch repeatedly harassing seiyu's thru twitter directly
I laughed at that, and I almost don't feel bad.
Goddammit, internet.
WAIT WHAT??
@ Anon 17:07
Excellent! Lol.
(Now I feel bad).