2017年9月25日 · We had one girl who was trying to manage her depression/anxiety and be a better parent to her 2-year-old. Typical stuff. She’d been with us for a couple of months when …

One asylum director fervently held the belief that eggs were a vital part of a mentally ill person’s diet and reported that his asylum went through over 17 dozen eggs daily for only 125 patients. …

One of the most pitiful delusions of any of the patients was that of a blue-eyed Irish girl, who believed she was forever damned because of one act in her life. Her horrible cry, morning and …

2021年6月22日 · O n a hot summer’s night in June 1860, the heavy door of the insane asylum clanged shut behind Elizabeth Packard and she felt all hope desert her. Because she was not …

symptoms women experienced according to admittance records would not make a woman eligible for admittance to a mental asylum t. day. Women with symptoms were later diagnosed insane …

2016年4月26日 · Her willingness and her fearlessness in all areas of her life led her to volunteer as an undercover investigator of the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island during her …

Between 1842 and 1890, 23 American women published 33 memoirs of their experiences as patients in insane asylums. Through these memoirs, in a time inhospitable to them as public …

2020年8月18日 · But not only did Nellie Bly have a record-breaking feat of traveling around the world, but she also spent 10 days in an asylum to reveal the brutality and neglect with which …

Since the 1870s, journalists have been posing as patients or attendants to expose horrid conditions and treatment inside mental hospitals. Nellie Bly, incidentally, was not the first.

2019年7月29日 · When she went undercover in a New York City insane asylum in 1887, Nellie Bly was surrounded by a world of grim horror. “Nearly all night long I listened to a woman cry …