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Post by Charles Vane on Feb 17, 2016 0:19:22 GMT -5
this is a list of reasons for admission into a mental asylum from 1864-1889, which one are you? (besides novel reading bc i know thats all of you nerds)
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Post by Charles Vane on Feb 17, 2016 0:21:31 GMT -5
im female disease, obvi
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Feb 17, 2016 0:52:15 GMT -5
The horrifying combination of laziness and over action of the mind.
I am curious to know if being kicked in the head by some other animal would disqualify you.
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Post by Charlie on Feb 17, 2016 1:24:35 GMT -5
Egotism
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Post by B. on Feb 17, 2016 2:50:29 GMT -5
Seduction and disappointment
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Feb 17, 2016 4:34:35 GMT -5
The War. I am The War.
A whole bunch of them apply, really:
-Imaginary Female Trouble (although probably not in the sense they mean) -Laziness (and then some) -Novel Reading -Over Action of the Mind -Over Taxing Mental Powers -Political Excitement -Politics -Bad Habits -Bad Company and Political Excitement -Bad Whiskey -Concealed Inaccuracy -Egotism -Suppressed frolicking in the fields -Vicious Vices -Women Trouble (same applies as 'Imaginary Female Trouble') -Greediness
Some of these raise interesting follow-up questions. Isn't 'Excessive Sexual Abuse' pretty much redundant (though I suppose it might not have been considered so in 1864)? Is 'Carbonic Acid Gas' a euphemism? What exactly do you have to do to qualify for Deranged frolicking in the fields?
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Post by BSam on Feb 17, 2016 6:23:48 GMT -5
give it another 10-15 years roughly and one of these would definately qualify me
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Feb 17, 2016 8:15:16 GMT -5
Bad habits and political excitement, feebleness of intellect, Laziness, Concealed Inaccuracy
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Post by Hermes on Feb 17, 2016 9:54:30 GMT -5
I am curious to know if being kicked in the head by some other animal would disqualify you. I get the sense this is a list of reasons people have been admitted, rather than of anything that qualifies you for admission - some of them are very specific. Comet: 'Carbonic acid gas' is an old name for carbon dioxide. And yes, 'excessive sexual abuse' is odd; even if people then differed from now about what was abusive, surely the word 'abuse' implies it is seen as a bad thing.
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Feb 17, 2016 11:06:20 GMT -5
Laziness. So lazy that I won't even look at all the other things and see if I'm anything else too.
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Post by Hermes on Feb 17, 2016 12:21:37 GMT -5
I think mine are much the same as Lemona's. I would like to say 'hard study', but fear that isn't true. Hard study alternating with laziness, perhaps.
Also, did people notice 'fighting fire'? With what, I wonder?
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Post by Orangey Snicket on Feb 17, 2016 14:22:40 GMT -5
MRAs and Gators would be diagnosing a lot of people with "Imaginary Female Trouble." Although they'd for sure be admitted for Feebleness of Intellect themselves.
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Feb 17, 2016 14:58:05 GMT -5
I get the sense this is a list of reasons people have been admitted, rather than of anything that qualifies you for admission - some of them are very specific. That's a pretty good explanation. It would also explain the many 'combinations' in there. Maybe they're using 'excessive' to mean 'necessitating admission', not considering that they might have to use it to describe anything that's already implicitly excessive.
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Post by Linda Rhaldeen on Feb 17, 2016 19:23:04 GMT -5
Presumably, these are the things that the person admitting their friend or relative into the asylum gave as the catalyst for the person's crazy behavior; just because one of these applies to you doesn't mean you would have been put in an asylum had you lived during that period. I would love to hear the stories behind some of these...
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Post by Linda Rhaldeen on Feb 17, 2016 19:36:44 GMT -5
BTW, I read a book a few months back that was about the history of madness, especially of women, and its treatment in England and it was super interesting. One thing I remember was that hysteria used to be a super common thing for women to be diagnosed with and it was just women being crazy, and then after the first world war all these men started getting diagnosed with "male hysteria" and then suddenly they started actually looking into the causes of it. They realized that soldiers who felt utterly helpless and had no control over their situation or their life were the ones most susceptible, a situation that was limited to the time they were actively fighting in the war for men but which many Victorian women spent their entire lives experiencing. Edit: found it. www.goodreads.com/book/show/342823.The_Female_Malady
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