https://www.progress-index.com/story/news/local/2021/07/27/central-state-hospitals-history-and-social-control-blacks/5381100001/ This article is about Central State Hospital. A mental institution in Virginia that was built with the sole purpose of house “insane and idiotic colored persons”. This article talks more about the opinions of white Physicians and how they thought about mental illness in enslaved and newly freed African-Americans. Similar to how Galt thought […]
Monthly Archives: September 2021
The 1973 APA over turn of Homosexuality as a mental illness
This link below links to a New York Times article from December 16th, 1973 that speaks about the at the time. Recent change in the American psychiatric world, that homosexuality is to be no longer viewed or considered a mental illness. The article also goes on to explain the type of mental effects that the …
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Grounding
Whilst we are a few weeks within the semester, I have one question to ask: how is everyone? Are you all doing alright? Drinking plenty of water? Getting some fresh air, making good decisions? Good! Anyways, the post for this Thursday is going to be about grounding; one of the most infamous methods of easing… Continue reading Grounding
TikTok announces new mental health resources for users.
This CNN article talks about how TikTok is making new resources for users to help with potential mental health issues that they could get from the platform. An example the article talks about is when someone searches for suicide on the platform brings the user to results that help deal with suicide. Ironically this is …
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Social Deviation and Mental Illness
Modern psychiatry has moved past the diagnosis of Hysteria as a mental disorder today. This disease used to be thought to originate from women’s unpredictable reproductive organs. Their “floating wombs” in their bodies caused women’s brains and behaviors to change. They could be extremely emotional, unpredictable, irrational, or experience other unexplainable symptoms. Society really governed […]
Risk Factors Contributing to “Nervous” Diseases in Civil War
https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/pn.41.8.0002 Article is actually about the risk factors associated with physical and “nervous” illnesses among veterans of the Union army in the Civil War. Authors analyzed over 15,000 randomly selected complete medical records of Union soldiers to determine what factors were more likely to produce cardiac, gastrointestinal diseases and “nervous” (what we would break down …
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Elizabeth Packard
While I was looking at news articles about nineteenth-century asylums, I came across this Time’s article about Elizabeth Packard. We read about her in chapter four of Gonaver’s book. Packard was wrongly confined by her husband because she had differing religious beliefs from him. The article was written by Kate Moore who gives a little …
Civil War Soldiers and PTSD
This article touches on how some of the first forms of PTSD seen was from the soldiers of the Civil War. It mentions how the devastation that many of the soldiers saw was unseen before and since they were subject to pre-modern medicine, their inflictions were difficult to treat. I think this is a great… Continue reading Civil War Soldiers and PTSD
A Beautiful Mind (1998)
A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 (1998) is an unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. Published in 1998, it was written by Sylv…
The Call of the Void
IMPORTANT MESSAGE: This post is not meant to encourage suicide, nor is it meant to discuss it. This has nothing to do with suicidal ideation. If you or someone you know is experiencing real suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at (800) 273-8255. You are not alone. At some point in our… Continue reading The Call of the Void
