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-. Hydra or Hydro therapy was mentioned in several of the accounts in our reading today. It sounds like a dangerous type of therapy since they are exposed to severe cold for long periods of time. Besides putting the patients in comatose kind of stupor, were there any real benefits to this type of treatment? Are there records of complications or death resulting from this type of treatment?
+. Hydra or Hydro therapy was mentioned in several of the accounts in our reading today. It sounds like a dangerous type of therapy since they are exposed to severe cold for long periods of time. Besides putting the patients in a comatose kind of stupor, were there any real benefits to this type of treatment? Are there records of complications or death resulting from this type of treatment?
 . In Margaret McGarr's account, she was committed after she fainted from heat exhaustion. Was that common? Or was she committed after her religious rebirthing in the hospital? Was it normal for religious people to be committed in the twentieth century?
 Submitted by Allison Love (I pledge...)
+) How does the scene that Francis Farmer describes on page 320 represent the state of mental asylums at the time? Do you believe her account of this to be true or fictionalized? How might we use this information that she gives to better understand the treatment and care of patients in mental asylums during the post war period?
+) Many of the women use the word “inmate” or “prisoner” in their testimonies? Why do you think they chose to use these specific words? Do you think they felt that “patient” did not encompass the experience and treatment well enough?
+Submitted by Mallory Karnei (I pledge...)
+, This question may be controversial to ask, but do you think Virginia, from the (I think) fourth account, was of an entirely sound mind? Schizophrenic-presenting symptoms aside, we hear that doctors repeatedly used shock therapy on her.
+. One thing that stood out to me in the third reading was a quote from a suicidal patient who described her depression as 'existing in a "flat land," stationary in a changeless plane.' That is an incredibly apt description, in my opinion. Do you think those with mental illnesses––like the people whose writings we have read thus far––are sometimes better able to capture certain realities of life than neurotypical people? It is a vast generalization, but I know we have correlational data claiming that mentally ill people also tend to score higher on IQ/reasoning tests.
+Submitted by Theron Gertz   (I pledge...)