Why do people call the Mental Hospital the LOONEY BIN?

Answer 1

Because they are insensitive. Just like people who refer to the mentally ill as "nuts" or "psychos".

Answer 2

Looney Bins

Answer 3

When someone is mentally and emotionally "off their rocker", we say he's "Looney".
When digging potatoes we throw them into a "bin" or container where a large number are held.

Putting the two together, the "Looney Bin" is a contained space/or hospital ward where people with mental problems are placed/held for treatment.

Answer 4

People who do that are tasteless. What if one had to go there for treatment? How would she / he feel hearing others say, "looney bin?"

Answer 5

i've got been interior the ER and psych ward for overdoses (led to by utilising melancholy, needless to say) and that i wasn't too lots responsive to what exchange into happening. i could not upward thrust up or flow my eyes too right now, yet I bear in concepts having to talk to a psychiatrist (who labored interior a similar medical institution i flow to numerous cases in step with week for remedy and med regulation... it particularly is predicated out of a important infant's well-being middle) for numerous hours, and it exchange into painful. They requested distinctive particularly invasive questions that I needless to say did not sense like answering interior the state i exchange into in, determining that i exchange into nonetheless alive. they'd not enable me flow after the "assessment" so I had to attend 12 greater hours. i did not do lots different than lie there finding on the ceiling. Others went fairly further. They almost admitted me throughout me throughout a hypomania, besides. had to get a courtroom order because of the fact I refused, and because i'm sixteen my mothers and fathers would desire to'nt make me. i ultimately confident them to not, thank god. I plan on under no circumstances returning to the psych ward or ER returned. customarily because of the fact next time i'm going to be triumphant!

Answer 6

Because it's where the supposedly looney people go.

Answer 7

Bcuz when u think people are crazy or looney dats what u call it and its just a nother name for it

Answer 8

Lunatic
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“Loony” redirects here. For the Canadian coin, see Loonie.
A lunatic (colloquially: "loony") is a commonly used term for a person who is mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable, a condition once called lunacy.

The word is borrowed from Latin "lunaticus", which gains its stem from "luna" for moon, which denotes the traditional link made in folklore between madness and the phases of the moon. This probably refers to the symptoms of cyclic mood disorders such as bipolar disorder or cyclothymia, the symptoms of which may also go through phases. As yet there is little evidence for any causal link between phases of the moon and the progression of mood disorder symptoms.

In a 1999 Journal of Affective Disorders article, a hypothesis was suggested indicating that the phase of the moon may in the past have had an effect on bipolar patients by providing light during nights which would otherwise have been dark, and affecting susceptible patients through the well-known route of sleep deprivation. With the introduction of electric light, this effect would have gone away, as light would be available every night, explaining the negative results of modern studies. They suggest ways in which this hypothesis might be tested.

Mental institutions used to be called "lunatic asylums" or colloquially, "loony bins".

In Russian, Polish and Czech, a lunatic refers to a sleepwalker, literally "one who walks under the moon" or "moonwalker".

In Romanian, a word with the meaning of "lunatic" is "zănatic", derived from Latin "dianaticus", from Diana, the Roman goddess of the Moon.[1]

In England and Wales the Lunacy Acts 1890 - 1922 referred to lunatics, but the Mental Treatment Act 1930 changed the legal term to Person of Unsound Mind, an expression which was replaced under the Mental Health Act 1959 by mental illness. Person of unsound mind was the term used in 1950 in the English version of the European Convention on Human Rights as one of the types of person who could be deprived of liberty by a judicial process. The 1930 act also replaced Asylum by Mental Hospital. Criminal Lunatics became Broadmoor Patients in 1948 under the National Health Service Act. The terms are still used by journalists, especially in tabloid newspapers.

Many women suffer from premenstrual syndrome, which can involve depression and irritability. The menstrual cycle is more-or-less the same length as the lunar cycle.


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The term lunatic was also used by supporters of John Harrison and his marine chronometer method of determining longitude to refer to proponents of the Method of Lunar Distances, advanced by Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.

Later, members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham called themselves lunaticks. In an age with little street lighting, the society met on or about the night of the full moon

Answer 9

it's an insult by people who themselves belong
in a nutshouse ... the pun is 'trash bin' - disgusting.

Answer 10

b/c it is... ive been there twice actually and its where the crazy SOB go :)