The third oldest standing public building of Texas is the old Texas State Lunatic Asylum which is now the houses of the staff of the Austin State Hospital (ASH). Some years ago in the US and Europe there was an asylum movement and doctors had the belief that people diagnosed with mental illnesses could recover their mental health in an environment free of the stress of day to day life. For that they used techniques that are still used, some of those techniques are: exercise, fresh air, enough rest and others.
In 1925 the Texas State Lunatic Asylum changed its name to Austin State Hospital where the doctors always try to exceed the expectations of their patients by including new and better treatments like: music, art and recreational therapy as well as other treatments like drugs, electroconvulsive shock treatment, hydrotherapy and rarely surgical lobotomy.
Today the ASH provides psychiatric cares to a 36 county region in Central Texas. They receive at least 286 patients per day which are normally treated by stabilization of delicate psychiatric sicknesses and then return to their daily tasks. ASH offers these services through three big services which are: Specialty Adult Services, Adult Psychiatric Services and Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services. The staff of the hospital strives to give you the best services related to psychiatric cares. If you or someone that you know need these kinds of cares attends the Austin State Hospital, they will help you with your needs.