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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis list of reasons for admission to a "lunatic asylum" in the 1800s
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Some of these pairings, like bad habits and political excitement and fever and loss of lawsuit are weird. Apparently people could be thrown in an asylum for anything back then.
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This list of reasons for admission to a "lunatic asylum" in the 1800s (Original Post)
octoberlib
Dec 2018
OP
No, I think it's unisex though a lot of the items on the list would only apply to women
dflprincess
Dec 2018
#12
Lochloosa
(16,061 posts)1. Masturbation for 30 years? I'm done ..
Docreed2003
(16,850 posts)8. Looks like that's most of the dudes here on DU!
doc03
(35,295 posts)11. Also says suppression of masterbation
Lochloosa
(16,061 posts)14. WTF is that?
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)15. Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)2. Rumor of husband murder, this whole list is straght up insane.
30 years of masturbation. Super weird.
dflprincess
(28,072 posts)3. Deranged masturbation?
I know I'm stereotyping but wouldn't that cover most adolescent boys?
Harker
(13,976 posts)5. Suppose they're reading a novel
at the time? That might warrant a padded cell.
Mister Ed
(5,923 posts)6. I also see "Suppressed Masturbation" on the list.
So it looks as though you can't win, no matter what.
dalton99a
(81,392 posts)4. Ok, it's your "time of life" to go to the asylum
Looks like Donald Trump could qualify under a bunch of them
Harker
(13,976 posts)7. Uh oh.
I worked for nearly a year at a Salvation Army thrift store.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)9. Gathering in the head means meningitis
Looked it up. Wow! Who knew a prolonged stay in the loony bin could cure a bacterial infection?
obamanut2012
(26,046 posts)10. These are actually reasons for WOMEN
Who could be tossed in by their husbands or sons just because, and often were.
dflprincess
(28,072 posts)12. No, I think it's unisex though a lot of the items on the list would only apply to women
but I doubt if "Fell from horse in war" would have applied to many females of that era.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)13. Here's the fact check on this from Snopes
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)16. "Bloody Flux" is a winner.
doc03
(35,295 posts)17. Parents are cousins? Pretty much everyone
in WV could be put away.
FakeNoose
(32,577 posts)18. That's a West Virginia area code - 304
Blaukraut
(5,693 posts)19. So pretty much anything other than breathe (normally) got you committed n/t