This video by BuzzFeed is quite horrific as it depicts a patient in a mental facility being abused by one of the staff members. There are people around watching and do not seem to be perturbed by the situation. This video reminds me of Nellie Bly because while this abuse is not as harsh as […]
Monthly Archives: September 2021
A Memorial to Tennessee
Along with having an impact on states in the northeast, Dorothea Dix also sought change in Tennessee as well. In her Memorial to the State of Tennessee, she sought improvements for accommodations of the mentally insane by the creation of a new hospital…
Nellie Bly Video
When we talked about Nellie Bly this week in class, it made me think about what first introduced me to her and her work. Below I have a clip from the Comedy Central show Drunk History about Nellie Bly. The clip gives a rundown of her ten days in the asylum but in a funnier …
A Mind on Strike
Many of the research I’ve done for this project so far has been difficult. Broken links, incomplete sources, shady websites, and so on. John Forbes Nash Jr. was very private about his life and his mental condition, so it is hard to find referenc…
Blackwell’s Island Apartments
While it may seem surprising, NYC converted the famous asylum into luxury apartments for a hefty price.
Here’s a link to the New York Post article from Jan. 28, 2021:
https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/meet-history-buffs-who-live-in-nycs-m…
Nelly Bly Muckraker
Hello everyone for this week Bonnie and I will be covering Women in the Asylum. As well as Dorothea Dix and Nelly Bly. The latter of the two being a “muckraker” an early form of investigative journalist. Her exposé on Blackwell Insane Asylum titled 10 Days in a Mad House, being what she most famous …
Why I Would Invite Nellie Bly For Tea
As you may have already noticed, one of the required sources this semester is Nellie Bly’s Ten Days in a Mad-House. For those of you who do not know, Nellie Bly was an American journalist who committed herself to Blackwell’s Island Asylum for the Insane to witness asylum life and treatment first-hand. You know that… Continue reading Why I Would Invite Nellie Bly For Tea
Bly, Winters, & Ratched
The mental health related show I will be using during week 12 is 2020’s Ratchet starring Sarah Paulson and created
Dorothea Lynde Dix – New England Reformer
Tag: histmental 2021 – Week 5 This week Parker and I are focusing on 19th Century Female Reformers and accounts of women in asylums. Dix was an interesting person and her involvement in social reform is often underrated. Her early life was filled with disappointments that she was able to overcome and in his 1998 …
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“Feeling Blah? It’s Called Languishing.”
Years down the road in (hopefully) post-pandemic times, history will write about our time in quarantine as something that would happen once in a lifetime. But, having lived and experienced it, how has mental health changed for some people? And, how wil…
