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One could be led astray, down the dark path of INSANITY, or other such illnesses if one does not BEWARE, AND READ EVERY LAST BIT OF IT... read our opinions on such matters AS INSANITY below... and go to the mind medicine to learn more about the dark side of mentality... |
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this could be you, BEWARE
Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, has some good advice for you:
I must say that I myself have often feared that cold insanity. I am myself disposed to fits of melancholy, and have sometimes been in a daze. And I must beware the reader of this manual that they would never like to be in one of these places. Thus you should read this entire booklet carefully so as to keep your body and mind in tip top shape. I find that if I feel a bit dizzy in the head, a nice run around the streets of Dublin do one a world of good. It is a fast-paced modern world, and our poor minds are stuck back in the early times, without the ability to comprehend the dirt and grime of today. I do believe that if I were to die I would give some money to one of these "hospitals", for they are in dire need of help. As Defoe asserts, they really are hellish spots to be in and we must reform them so that the insane can be made well, instead of the sane being made ill. So I hope you take our advice to heart and read this manual. It will help you stay well. (23) J. Swift
At the beginning of the century, Bethlem Hospital was
the only
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Daniel Defoe has some harsh words to say about the mental institutions:
Hello kind people. I hope that you are indeed good and kind people. Not folks who would send your family, your children, your wives and sisters to the madhouses. And why are there so many of these horrid places, where people run about screaming, and tortures of all kinds occur? Because Men, and Women too I suppose, are sending eachother, their spouses and the like, to the madhouses with every whim and dislike. Men especially do this to their wives. I understand dear gentlemen the reason one would do this, Oh, believe me I do, but it is surely not what a True-Born English-man, like myself, would ever do. We are civilized people, and we should not be sending eachother away to rot in cells if we find ourselves annoyed. It's true maybe that there are some that are truly crazy, but there must be some better way to deal with them than locking them away as a side-show for those commoners who come to view the crazies at Bedlam. These madhouses are the height of barbarity and injustice, a place of hell.
You don't want this Douche "cure"
I advise you all to be careful, for you do not want to be put in one of these "hospitals." Is it not enough, to make one mad, to be suddenly clapped up, stripped, whipped, ill fed, and worse used? Thus I believe that all of these places should be examined, and the ability to put people inside must be also investigated fully. Thank you kind sirs for reading my opinion. Now you must read this entire manual to keep healthy and sane. (24) DD (Tuke, p. 97).
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