are you mental? (yes, i am)

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In the autumn of 1951, doctors treating tubercular patients at Sea View Hospital on Staten Island with a new drug — isoniazid — observed sudden transformations in their patients’ moods and behaviors. The wards — typically glum and silent, with moribund, lethargic patients — were “bright last week with the happy faces of men and women,” a journalist wrote. Patients laughed and joked in the dining hall, as if a dark veil of grief had lifted. Energy flooded back and appetites returned. Many, ill for months, demanded five eggs for breakfast and then consumed them with gusto. When Life magazine sent a photographer to the hospital to investigate, the patients could no longer be found lying numbly in their beds: they were playing cards or dancing in the corridors.

(via Bloom: 28,000 Potted Flowers Installed at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center | Colossal)

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Presumed Curable: An Illustrated Casebook of Victorian Psychiatric Patients in Bethlem Hospital- Colin Gale & Robert J Howard Wrightson Biomedical Publishing Ltd (2003) ISBN-13: 978-1871816488

Presumed Curable: An Illustrated Casebook of Victorian Psychiatric Patients in Bethlem Hospital- Colin Gale & Robert J Howard Wrightson Biomedical Publishing Ltd (2003) ISBN-13: 978-1871816488

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Asylum (by ruskaya pravda)

Asylum (by ruskaya pravda)