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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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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

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

“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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(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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“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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“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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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: Responsibility2nd

“The War”?


21 posted on 08/11/2015 1:56:09 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: Responsibility2nd

They now instruct children on how to accomplish about half that list in school.


22 posted on 08/11/2015 1:56:17 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Just as pseudoscientific as ever. And just as effective with their “treatments” as ever.


23 posted on 08/11/2015 1:56:29 PM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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Salvation Army???? excuse me? what was that about??


24 posted on 08/11/2015 1:56:40 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Why would it say “1864 to 1889?” I’m not sure this isn’t bogus.


27 posted on 08/11/2015 1:59:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Masturbation”
and
“Suppressed Masturbation”
are both symptoms that warrant locking us up.

They’ve got us coming and going.


28 posted on 08/11/2015 2:00:12 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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Laziness? Check.

Mental Excitement? Check.

Bad habits and political excitement? Check.

Masturbation or suppressed masturbation? Check.

Bad company? Check.

Domestic trouble? Check.

Greediness? Check.

Disappointment in seduction? Check.

The list goes on and on. Lock me up already.


29 posted on 08/11/2015 2:00:37 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

To update the list today all that is needed is one item: posting on free republic.


30 posted on 08/11/2015 2:00:54 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: Responsibility2nd

Actually the mental health “system” in the USA is a disaster. There are lot more mentally ill people walking around now compered to times past. IMO most of the random shootings and massacres, like happened in Chas. SC, would never had occurred if it was ( God forbid ) easier to have someone committed. We don’t have a gun problem we have a free lunatic problem.


31 posted on 08/11/2015 2:01:42 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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