Blog Posts - Insanity

Sanity is always temporary. I can say that because we all know that no one acts rationally all the time. Our brains evolved (or were created, if you roll that way) for the simple purpose of survival, not reason. Reasoning, … Continue reading &#...

Dr. Harry Hummer, superintendent of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, almost continually made and implemented plans to expand the facility. One building that he especially wanted and never received was a separate cottage for epileptics. Though it...

YES IT IS THIS BAD AND I MEAN THAT LITERALLY YOU DON’T REALIZE IT YET BUT ALL THE PEOPLE ON HIS TEAM ARE BILLIONAIRES THEY WILL DO NOTHING FOR YOU AND ME EXCEPT MAKE......

FOR 100 MILLION DOLLAR CEREMONY SERIOUSLY THE ENGLISH DESERVE ALL THE SHIT THEY ARE GOING TO GET IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE THEY ARE PAYING THIS FAMILY TO BEHAVE AS THEY Continue reading...

By the end of what might be called the “asylum era,” most superintendents or administrators were buried under mountains of paperwork. Almost all public facilities were overcrowded and understaffed, which meant poor care and  more problem...

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  I got the boys new bikes yesterday. All was well. They spent most of the day on them having a great time, and fell asleep fairly quickly last night. Money well spent. We were up early this morning to wave Daddy off to the airport. He’s...

In A Treatise on Insanity (1883), author William Hammond (former surgeon-general of the Army) described various cases of intellectual objective morbid impulses and how he had treated them. In one case, a young man developed an overwhelming desire to...

Many asylum patients were ill with various chronic conditions, but accidents and self-inflicted injuries also kept doctors busy. In How to Care for the Insane by Dr. William Granger (1886), the author discusses some particular issues that nurses migh...

Life has always been stressful, so what was it about the nineteenth-century world that increased stress so much that alienists thought it contributed to a rising rate of madness (see last post)? Change itself brings stress, of course, and nineteenth-...

Politicians who supported an asylum exclusively for Indians often justified the need by parroting the claims of alienists. These specialists in mental illness maintained that the pressures of the modern world led to an increase in insanity. The fact...

Wealthy families with an insane member could usually afford to pay someone to care for their unfortunate relative; they also had accommodations for him or her. It was an entirely different matter for the poor or even the middle class, whose homes wer...

Compassion for the insane has been in short supply through most of history, particularly since the general public (until fairly recently) felt that somehow madness was the victim’s own fault. Accommodations for the insane have never been more t...

Early treatments for madness were as crude as those for physical ailments (see last two posts) and seldom involved physicians. Restraint would be a primary means of control. Households often chained a violent member or confined him or her in a strong...

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We played an energetic show in Rotorua, that sent the crowd home happy. We showered up and then boarded a red-eye flight to Auckland, which would get us there in an hour. The crew was tired, but happy after another great show. I sat next to Tom, who...

The change in attitude between the old-style treatment of the insane and the new moral treatment’s philosophy (introduced by Pinel and Tuke) cannot be emphasized enough. Though some of the worst cruelties and neglect had fallen out of favor by...

  I find myself knocking once again, on heaven’s gate at five A.M. The wine-stained, white dress drapes my body,  ribbons neatly laced; the call of the temporary netherworld– far and few in between, as of late. What a place to be at...

Newspapers can give intimate glimpses of a community and its concerns, and the Sioux Valley News zeroed in on the activities in Canton, South Dakota and its neighboring communities every Friday. On June 10, 1904, the paper reported on the efforts of...

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