How many reasons do you have to be admitted to an insane asylum?

[MrScorpio]

More than three and you should report directly to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum"

http://www.trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com/main/history3a.html

[AZCat]

1. My goodness they were obsessed with masturbation.

It appears explicitly on the list five times!
- Masturbation & syphilis
- Masturbation for 30 years
- Tobacco & masturbation
- Deranged masturbation
- Suppressed masturbation

I'd like to know how they differentiate some of the other categories. What is the difference, for example, between "domestic affliction" and "domestic trouble"?

[MrScorpio]

2. I chose both

Got a twofer on that one

[TreasonousBastard]

3. And what's the difference between...

"imaginary female trouble" and "uterine derangement"?

Yeah, masturbation for 30 years gets you in, but so does suppressed masturbation. You just can't win.

It's really difficult imagining such learned men walking around muttering seriously about these symptoms in their patients. Whatever would they think of Furries or drag reviews?

[AZCat]

4. Anybody who could think up such a list...

would have a great time at a Furry convention! Think of how twisted the mind that made this list must have been.

[IrishAyes]

5. Very enlightened for its time.

Most people today don't seem to have much idea how horrifying the supposed 'good ole days' really were. The doctors of that period weren't beasts at all; that was simply the level of knowledge available at the time. Just be glad you were born when you were.

[No Vested Interest]

6. Psychology is a relatively new "science" and not

an exact one at that.
A lot of guessing still goes on today.
And a lot of revisions to former definitions.

[Ace Acme]

7. Well, I'll admit to "Hereditary Predisposition" and "Politics" and "Bad Company";

not to mention "Novel Reading" and "Women Trouble" (though I doubt their definition of that comports with mine).

[ReRe]

8. Salvation Army

[rug]

9. That looks like the Lounge Statement of Purpose.

[intaglio]

10. lol!

[hobbit709]

11. I don't see teabagger on that list.

[jmowreader]

12. Teabagger is a multi-symptom disorder

Teabaggers have mental excitement, jealousy and religion, deranged masturbation, brain fever, bad company, gathering in the head, political excitement, over study of religion, laziness, immoral life, kicked in the head by a horse, superstition, greediness...if three or more is enough to get you sent up, that many should be enough to get you lobotomized, pumped full of thorazine, and your balls cut off so you don't contaminate the rest of the world.

[sarge43]

14. Any masturbation that isn't classified free range. n/t

[KG]

15. Suppressed masturbation - wtf is that even supposed to mean?

[DebJ]

16. Fever and Loss of Law Suit? Is there a connection there? n/t

[valerief]

17. Novel reading? I love Overstudy of Religion.

[Wounded Bear]

18. So, the insane asylum is prescribed for false confinement...

O-Kaaayyyyyy.

[alarimer]

19. "Women trouble" could be interpreted a number of ways

I have a few of these:

Political excitement
Politics
Bad habits and political excitement
novel reading
laziness
overtaxing mental powers
mental excitement

and probably several more.

[malthaussen]

20. "Masturbation for 30 years?"

Damme, I dunno if that is a mental illness, but if it takes you that long I'd say you have some serious physical problems!

-- Ml

[In_The_Wind]

21. I refuse!

[madinmaryland]

22. "deranged masturbation"

Huh?

[MrScorpio]

23. There's no kind of party like a deranged masturbation party. nt