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Jan 20, 2023, 04:43 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
I’m not sure you would learn much if you did have success in locating your aunts records Beth. They did not really understand mental illness back when your aunt ended up institutionalized.
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Good point about the cocaine in otc medications. Add to that good old reliable Bayer cough syrup, commonly prescribed to children. That cough remedy contained heroin and was not outlawed until 1914.
I am interested in those hospital records that I strongly doubt I will ever see. I've no doubt that my great-aunt suffered with PTSD as the result of whatever she went through as a child who immigrated to the US when she was ten years old. Of course, that almost surely would not be included in her Creedmoor intake notes.
What may have been notated, however, was the reason my Great-Aunt Bertha was found by the police, wandering in Central Park with no clothing on. People don't just "do" that. And were there any records to indicate why she was committed for around four decades? Probably, and I would be interested to see them. It's true that they didn't understand mental illness then - but do they understand it now?
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