This is Part 2 of the “Misery Rules in Shadowland” series. “Misery Rules in Shadowland” is a newspaper article written in the Daily Oklahoman by then newspaper reporter, Mike Gorman, all the way back in 1946. Gorman had received numerous complaints from readers about the unsanitary, abusive, and inhumane state that permeated throughout the Oklahoma state mental hospital system at that time, and as it had been existing for quite some time up until that point. Like most states of that era, Oklahoma had a number of very large, poorly operated mental hospitals located throughout the state. Both incensed and curious, Gorman conducted a two-week long tour of all of the state’s mental hospitals before then writing his deeply penetrating first-hand account of all that he saw and witnessed. This personal, first-hand account does more than just describe the state of Oklahoma’s state mental hospital system, however. Indeed, it actually described the state of the majority of the state mental hospitals throughout the entire nation at that time. And Mike Gorman himself would go on to become one of the greatest mental health and mental illness rights activists and crusaders of his generation.
Mike Gorman's success as a publicist and crusader derived partly from his direct, irascible presentation style. He was well known for his sometimes blistering critiques of social injustices and the political or professional inertia that sustained them. He argued repeatedly that there was absolutely no excuse for a country as great and as prosperous as the United States to neglect the health and well-being of so many of its citizens. And perhaps nowhere was this better seen than in his first, initial reporting on the matter, Misery Rules in Shadowland.
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