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List of reasons for admission to an insane asylum from the late 1800s
Dangerous Minds ^ | 10/22/2013

Posted on 08/11/2015 1:44:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

After viewing this list of what could have gotten you admitted to West Virginia’s Hospital for the Insane (Weston) aka Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum back in the late-1800s, I’ve swiftly concluded that the criteria was rather all-encompassing. Who among us is a stranger to what’s on this list?

In this century, it looks more like a “wish list” for Dr. Phil’s guest bookers!

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is still open, but only for tours.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: insaneasylum
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List of reasons for admission to a mental hospital in the US in the 1800sThis list comes from West Virginia’s Hospital for the Insane (Weston) aka Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum back in the late-1800s. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t… masturbate too much, masturbate too little, masturbation and smoking cigarettes at the same time… you could have been locked up for both religious fervor and political excitement. There’s pretty much something for everyone here.Read the story here
1 posted on 08/11/2015 1:44:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Slings and Arrows; Lazamataz

Having over 50% of these symptoms, I felt really bad.

Till I found out Slings and Laz are hitting 98 percent.


2 posted on 08/11/2015 1:46:11 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Asthma? I’m a lunatic then, seated next to those SERIOUSLY disturbed, Obama voters. Might as well stick me in the asylum with potted plants.....


3 posted on 08/11/2015 1:48:19 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("See her for a moment Then she melts away. The ghost of Charlotte Corday." Al Stewart)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Wow, so nothing’s really changed in the DSM-5?


4 posted on 08/11/2015 1:48:19 PM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: Responsibility2nd

Im still trying to understand that Gathering in The Head Symptom

does this mean that us guys smoking in the boys room in Junior High School was symptom of INSANITY??


5 posted on 08/11/2015 1:48:46 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Responsibility2nd

LOL...

We’d ALL be locked up!


6 posted on 08/11/2015 1:49:34 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Responsibility2nd

Fighting fire?

Women trouble. Yea, they’ll drive you crazy.

Hilarious list.


7 posted on 08/11/2015 1:49:54 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’ve got “Novel Reading” and “Time of Life.” Where do I apply, and is it free room and board?


8 posted on 08/11/2015 1:50:25 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Novel Reading” is on the list... but somehow they left off “Freeping until blood comes out of your whatever”. How did that happen?


9 posted on 08/11/2015 1:51:51 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

(trying not to laugh) Did West Virginia have a problem with Masterbation in the late 1800s? It is mentioned quite a few times...


10 posted on 08/11/2015 1:51:56 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Where is “being a LIB” or “being a DIM”?


11 posted on 08/11/2015 1:52:29 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Novel reading? Sign me up for a suite at the nearest looney bin.

Political excitement? Y’all can join me there.


12 posted on 08/11/2015 1:53:11 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Teacher, don’t you fill me up with your rules! Everybody knows that smoking ain’t allowed in school.


13 posted on 08/11/2015 1:53:15 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Female Disease”

LOL!!! I’d be committed every 28 days!!!


14 posted on 08/11/2015 1:53:32 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

>> Did West Virginia have a problem with Masterbation in the late 1800s?

Apparently, but at least they knew how to *spell* it. ;-)


15 posted on 08/11/2015 1:54:24 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: Nervous Tick

“Freeping until blood comes out of your whatever”. How did that happen?

__________________________________

It’s there. See Menstrual Deranged.


16 posted on 08/11/2015 1:54:33 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: Nervous Tick

I’m in the Novel Reading til blood comes out of your whatever ward with the rest of you….It’s right next to the Political Excitement Ward


17 posted on 08/11/2015 1:55:03 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Kicked in the head by a horse”?

Who hasn’t been kicked in the head by a horse once or twice.


18 posted on 08/11/2015 1:55:30 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m looking at the “Bad Habits and Political Excitement” in the first column and wondering “where are we?”

That’s a hilarious list.


19 posted on 08/11/2015 1:55:46 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (()
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To: Nervous Tick

We never thought that the non smoking teachers would ever catch on....

15 year olds are such geniuses!!!


20 posted on 08/11/2015 1:56:02 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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