Relatives and visitors of Narcosis patients were never allowed in the Narcosis Room for obvious reasons. Although relatives were encouraged to believe that only Narcosis treatment could save their wives and daughters from progressive mental decline, even the most hard hearted of them would have protested if they had seen the conditions inside the Narcosis Room for themselves.   

Visiting was allowed only once each week on Sundays when patients were taken into the dayroom and allowed an hour long visit. During the week nurses struggled to get their patients to drink the extraordinary amounts of water that Narcosis patients had to get through every day. On Sundays it was the visitors turn to plead with patients to drink glass after glass of water from the plastic jug that was set down in front of every patient. Visitors say that Narcosis patients were “like zombies”, “completely out of it,” “half dead” but somehow they allowed the psychiatrists to keep on with this punishing treatment that diminished their wives and daughters week after week in front of them.

They trusted the people who they believed were helping them, but were in fact systematically destroying them.