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Diagnosis: Insanity caused by overwork. These days, work stress, postnatal depression and anxiety are addressed with compassion. But just a few generations ago, the women who suffered from these conditions, were confined to an asylum.

Sent to the asylum: The Victorian women locked up because they were suffering from stress, post natal depression and anxiety

Tragic tale of mental health treatment of Victorian women who were locked up due to stress, post-natal depression, and anxiety.

Sent to the asylum: The Victorian women locked up because they were suffering from stress, post natal depression and anxiety

Haunting Mental Asylum Photos From the Past

Asylum

Manhattan State Hospital Location: New York, NY, US Date taken: 1964 sad thing is she probably had a family and is locked away for depression.
Asylum patient with trichotillomania. Mental Asylum, Insane Asylum, Paranormal, Dsm Iv, Psychiatric Hospital, Abandoned Asylums, Foto Real, Vintage Medical, Medical History
mental hospital nurses 1936 Absolutely fascinating article if you click through to the website printed in a LIFE magazine - History

Pilgrim State Hospital

Tied to the bed & alone!

"kvetchlandia"

Mental Institution, East Louisiana State Mental Hospital, 1963 by Richard Avedon

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Strait jacket, Europe, Check out the new Mind Hacks post re: A history of psychology through objects for more info about the collection of Mental Health and Illness oddities at the Science Museum London
A patient in a straight jacket at a hospital for the mentally ill, circa 1946 - Jerry Cooke -Time Life Pictures - Getty Images

are you mental? (yes, i am)

ECT is still done, but in a much more refined way. Often of last resort when meds and therapy don't work

Pulled To Bits

They placed these in my mouth and other patients mouths prior to receiving electro shock therapy treatments.

are you mental? (yes, i am)

Pilgrim State Hospital: an Abandoned Psychiatric Hospital in Brentwood, NY
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Written on the wall of an abandoned mental asylum

Before the mid-eighteen hundreds, common belief was that those who suffered from…

are you mental? (yes, i am)

prev pinner note: Patient receiving insulin shock therapy treatment in mental hospital, which causes a coma condition in this patient. Location: Worchester, MA, US Date taken: August 1949 Mental Asylum, Insane Asylum, Mental Health Treatment, Mental Health Care, Psychiatric Hospital, Vintage Medical, Medical Science, Medical History, Mental Illness

Top 10 Outdated Medical Treatments - Listverse

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