The grim history of Edinburgh's forgotten Bedlam 'lunatic asylum'

The history of mental health treatment is dark and tragic almost everywhere, and Scotland is certainly no exception. While there is still a long way to go, it is only when you take a look back at the past that you realise how far we have come from the days of madhouses and asylums.The Daily Record has previously taken a look at one of Scotland's most infamous mental hospitals, with the now-abandoned Lennox Castle in East Dunbartonshire described as a "pit" by its own medical director. Now, we are shining a light on a notorious asylum in Edinburgh.Darien House on the corner of Bristo Place and Teviot Place originally served as the headquarters for the disastrous Darien scheme, which was a plan in the 1690s to establish a Scottish trading colony on the territory of present-day Panama. It was