@lce I'm aware that nobody
here is making fun of mental illness.
But this is the thing: Any real world based house, whether its Dentists, Schools, Miners, Clowns, etc are based in the reality that you are 100% aware that these ordinary things are not inherently scary. The people who work or are involved in those environments are not actually scary. 99% of the time they are not there to hurt you. Which allows you to go into a house with the idea that this is an outlier case.
The two big themes that don't follow this trend are Asylums and Prisons. Prisons for obvious reasons, these are supposed to be criminals, they've done bad things and they've been locked away. (Though that's a whole other discussion entirely) Asylums on the other hand come from the fear of not understanding it, like you said. The problem with that is there is so much more information about mental illness out there that isn't widely spread, and so many people are suffering from these issues that when you just throw in a "oo look a CrAzY pErSoN" into the mix it continues to harm those who do actually suffer from actual problems. Not to mention the amount of people these days who hear somebody say they have a problem with something, that does legitimately bother them, and the response is "Are you Triggered?????" and getting called a snowflake for it. Its dismissive.
The issue when it comes to "These people have been driven to this point" doesn't come back to reflect on the ones who drove them that far. I experience Maze of Madness one whole time at KD, but there wasn't a single doctor in that house that wasn't a victim. It was just "The crazies took over!!!!" considering, and I could be wrong about this I went through this house 5 years ago, the theme of the house was based on the idea that the patients were pushed farther than they should have been. It almost never reflects back on the ones who pushed them that far, and when it does it still continues to demonize the patients because you're still supposed to fear them, they want revenge against the ones who hurt them but they're blinded so they might hurt you oH NOOOOooooOOO.
As for everything, there are a shit ton of other ideas out there that don't stem from hurting a group of people who just want help and to be left alone. And if you think that just removing the idea of asylums is gonna cause an avalanche of "oh no that's offensive. this is the fun police no fun here." then I think you really might need to do some self reflecting and try to understand how these things hurt people.
@Ryan , I figured that was the case, since Dystopia is a house based on propaganda! I think there are a few ideas mentioned in last years HoS thread as to fixing the house to make that idea even more clear. But, I'm not sure what pages thats on. (and I know that's a long thread. lol ) And thanks, its a struggle but I'm getting the right help I need to cope.
