[Closed] "Imaginary Female Trouble" anyone?

Tobacco and masturbation simultaneously? Interesting

Over action of the mind 😯

[i]spins round in circles and leaves thread[/i]

So thats wa**ing yourself stupid to get admitted to the asylum then ?

Tobacco and masturbation

Over study of religion seems a good reason though

Brilliant. "Excessive sexual abuse". Sexual abuse in moderation, fine.

Novel reading is the pick of the bunch though.

I fear I am suffering from 'Feebleness of Intellect' today...

[i]Novel reading is the pick of the bunch though.[/i]

I wondered about that one. Maybe they found new and interesting ways to read rather than just picked up long books all the time?

So too much masturbation gets you in trouble, but standard "self-abuse" and also "suppressed masturbation" does too. there's no pleasing some people...

Seduction and disappointment

Wow,they predicted that internet dating would drive people insane 🙂

WTF is deranged masturbation? 😯

I did my training (back in the 80's) at Stanley Royd hospital in Wakefield (formerly known as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum). It had its own museum, which included an admission record from the 1800's, which looked awfully similar to that. I think one of the saddest things about the place was that at one time, women were regularly incarcerated for being pregnant 'out of wedlock', and the kids then brought up in there. I recall looking after some of these people, as they had grown to old age, thinking my heart would break at the injustice and wasted lives.

It's called Danger W4nking, I believe

It's called Danger W4nking, I believe

[i]WTF is deranged masturbation?[/i]

thinking about Anne Widdicombe?

Imaginary females is a sub-group with which I've never had trouble

Further reading:

http://arch.thomas-industriesinc.com/Bldg_WestonState.htm

http://www.trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com

I believe I still have, somewhere, an old booklet titled 'asylum attendants handbook' dating from about 1910. One of my favourite, and in my opinion still relevant, interventions, goes something along the lines of 'under no circumstances should the lunatics be allowed to climb ladders'. That's my plans for the day scuppered then...

What's venereal excess?

Basically, enjoying beastly horridness and vile wickedness a bit too much. Sex was for procreation, not enjoyment.

Crikey.

Off at a slight tangent…

My wife is preparing an academic paper based on the memoirs of a Dr Robert Killer (yes, really). He worked in Manchester in the early 19 century and annotated a directory with information on the people listed within it, including their medical histories and ultimately their causes of death. Until about 1830 if you committed suicide it was classed as “self murder” and you were buried at a cross roads with a stake through you to stop your spirit escaping. The only way to get a church burial was to be declared insane.

The law was changed after a prominent nobleman who was also a member of parliament took his own life. They had the dilemma of burying his impaled body at a cross roads or declaring him insane whilst in government.

"NOvel Reading" 😆

Also at a slight tangent, following the closure of Stanley Royd, in the 90's, the remaining buildings were turned into 'luxury apartments' and sold off, as were quite a lot of the old psychiatric hospitals up and down the country. I really don't get why you'd want to live in one of these places, knowing the history and atmosphere of them. Far too high a 'woo' content for me, thanks all the same.

Been slammed away with the mentals for "Hard Study" seems somewhat harsh too!

The abuse of asylums sits alongside Irish nunneries and expulsion to the colonies in Britain's shameful history. You only have to go on 28dayslater.com and see the size and importance of the Victorian asylums to understand how much of a role they played in sanitising Victorian society to suit those who ran it and benefited from it. The closure of the asylums was a positive step but in a "baby with bathwater" scenario we also took away places of shelter for the small minority for whom Care in the Community is never going to work.

There was a big Victorian one near me that converted into flats soon after closing.

I know I put a light hearted slant on the thread but the misery and suffering those places must have seen means I'd never want to live there - I'd think the walls must have absorbed it.

I think that some of these reasons for admission are still seen today, except the terminology has changed. 'Hard study' for example, would possibly be described as stress induced psychosis. I recall one of the publications from my book list as a student (mental disorder and its treatment, by Jack Lyttle, which I think is still in print), had a full chapter regarding homosexuality. This was in 1988!
+1 for globalti.

The flats in the former Mickleover asylum in Derby are really nice, though the guy I know who lives there is adamant that it had a very relaxed and liberal regime for it's age

Brilliant.

"Salvation Army". I so wish there was an explanation!

Maybe the band kept playing The Birdy Song?

Yeah, and Stanley Royd was described as a 'model' hospital in its time as well. Not everything about the old bins was bad, but they were far from perfect, I can tell you.

I really don't get why you'd want to live in one of these places, knowing the history and atmosphere of them. Far too high a 'woo' content for me, thanks all the same.

Dower House (Stoke park) in Brizzle is now luxury flats.
I was chatting to a builder (big rough chap he was) who was working on it at the time. He told me he was working there late one night when the genny stopped, plunging him into darkness. Without a seconds thought; he dropped his tools, sprinted to his van and drove home! 😀

Dez - I'll see your 'salvation army' and raise you with 'bloody flux'.

'Tobacco & Masturbation' is quite inviting.

"Novel reading"? We're all doomed.

'Masturbation for 30 years' and opposite 'suppressed masturbation'. They can't make their minds up!