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Jan 21, 2023, 01:43 AM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow
Have you read Nellie Bly 10 days in a MadHouse? It's a really interesting book written by a female undercover journalist who faked her way into a NY psychiatric hospital in 1887. It's incredible how things have changed and improved since then. You'd hope it would in 135 years but sometimes it feels like nothing ever changes.
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Yes, I read it when I was younger. What a gutsy woman She was! I've just looked up the wiki page on her. Check it out, it's interesting. She had the look in her eyes of someone absolutely determined to seek out the truth. Nellie Bly - Wikipedia
It's as you say, Rainbow. With regard to the treatment of mental illness so much has changed in 135 years...yet so terribly much stigma still exists, and treatment lags. Although, it's possible that there has been more advancement with medication in the past 35 years than in all the years before that. When Prozac hit the market in 1989 there was definitely an awakening.
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