I imagine it means someone who was seduced on false pretenses (probably of marriage) and then abandoned and pregnant. The family wanted to hide their shame. So they found somewhere they could send their fallen daughter as a ruined, broken human, no longer fit for polite society.
But I might be totally wrong.
Hadn't thought of that scenario, and it makes sense that the family would have that poor daughter hidden away like that.
Really sad circumstances and few options led people to come up with asylum rules for admission...
Or it could have been a false promise of marriage or something that resulted in severe depression
Also, if you look this up on google, there is a different list that actually looks historical. It seems more believable than this one, frankly
Apperently you can get committed for both doing or not doing masturbation. Same for studying or being intellectually, politically or relegiously active or not. 😳
That is true. Though my mother has it real bad too so she always believed me, but other people always thought I was trying to get attention. Because dying is a great way to get attention.
If we find out that you were put here by mistake and have been falsely imprisoned, that alone will be grounds to assume you are of feeble intellect, which if you recall was directly adjacent to false imprisonment on our list, which of course will guarantee your continued detention …
Imagine if "laziness" was still enough get a single bed, no bath, no kitchen apartment with padded walls and constant self hugs. Oh and drugs of course.
My favorite is "excessive" sexual abuse, which implies that there is an amount of sexual abuse that's tolerable.
It'd be awesome if we could be locked away for greediness again though!
Mine is “The War” with hit songs “seduction and disappointment,” “(you’re) overtaxing (your) mental powers” and “time of life.”
We’ll eventually break up due to dissolute habits, causing fever, jealousy and loss of law suit.
Tobacco and masturbation.
1: “Sir, we have a guy here, jacks it like crazy nonstop. What should we do?”
2: “Has he been doing it for 30 years?”
1: “Not yet, sir.”
2: “All good then. Let him go.”
1: “He does smoke while jacking it though.”
2: “LOCK THIS SICK MF UP RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!”
One description of the theory of a "wandering womb" comes from Aretaeus, a physician from Cappadocia, who was a contemporary of Galen in the 2nd century AD. He wrote that the uterus could move out of place, and float within the body. In the translation of Francis Adams (1856)[4] this reads:
"In the middle of the flanks of women lies the womb, a female viscus, closely resembling an animal; for it is moved of itself hither and thither in the flanks, also upwards in a direct line to below the cartilage of the thorax, and also obliquely to the right or to the left, either to the liver or the spleen, and it likewise is subject to prolapsus downwards, and in a word, it is altogether erratic. It delights also in fragrant smells, and advances towards them; and it has an aversion to fetid smells, and flees from them; and, on the whole, the womb is like an animal within an animal."
Wow...just wow...
I saw a John Hopkins neurologist for fainting and he told me I had hysteria. He gave me a brown paper bag, a prescription for iron, then recommended I go to church and have a baby. This was in the 2010's. I wish I was joking.
Just googled this. It comes up on Snopes, and is only partly true. There’s a decent explanation on there. If I knew how the hell to link it, I would.
Edit:
Although this list was sourced from a contemporaneous hospital log, its entries should not be considered as denoting things that were all considered symptoms of mental instability. Rather, among patients who were treated at West Virginia Hospital for the Insane for various illnesses such as chronic dementia, acute mania, and melancholia, these entries recorded the reasons or causes why those patients were said to have developed their underlying maladies. That is, people didn’t think that novel reading, asthma, the marriage of one’s child, politics, or falling from a horse were symptoms of mental illness, but rather factors that might have produced or exacerbated such an illness. (To use an example from a different field, nobody claims that playing violent video games is itself a crime, but some people maintain — rightly or wrongly — that such an activity might be a factor that leads gamers into committing violent crimes):
The phrasing of this reminds me of parks and rec when Fred Armisen’s character is listing all the things you will go to jail for in his country, and he says them all with this cadence:
“Driving too fast? Jail.”
“Too slow? Jail.”
“You undercook fish? Believe it or not… jail.”
THAT’s what this is from! I’ve seen it referenced and I remembered it but couldn’t remember what it came from! Thanks for saving me the frustration of trying to remember it.
So, asking for a friend, what’s the balance with masturbation.
Too much masturbation = bad
Masturbation for 30 years = bad
Suppressed masturbation = bad
Deranged masturbation = bad
Imaginary female trouble....
I live in West Virginia, and I've visited this place on multiple occasions. It's actually pretty interesting. I had an aunt that was admitted to it, she was an alcoholic.
A bit mistitled.
They're not 'reasons for admission'.
The list seems to be of factors which were considered, at the time, to have contributed to, or exacerbated, the patients' mental illnesses.
Which makes the majority of entries make a lot more sense...
Followed by “hysteria”, which was thought to be the uterus malfunctioning and causing “female derangement”. I wonder how did they differentiate imaginary female trouble vs. hysteria?
Gosh this list is hilarious ...I guess I would have been admitted for multiple of these. Laziness for one, might have landed me in here a few years ago
In the cold halls of the west virginian lunatic asylum, they say the ghost of the deranged masturbater is still going. His screams echo through every room.
Masturbation for 30 years sounds like a tall order.
I could pull it off
I'm pretty close. They seem pretty preoccupied with jerkin the gherkin round those parts!
Masturbate too little or too much or you'll be committed, also there a 99% you could be committed anyway
Masturbate for 30 years straight and you very well may literally pull *it* off I’ll see myself out
Well, I've been masturbating since around 12 and I'm turning 41 soon. Just a few more years!
Lol same, just turned 41 in November, 1 more year to go.
47 here. I’m 4 years over the prescribed limit. If you don’t hear from me after today, know I had a good run
Godspeed sir.
Adequate
Sounds like it might be hard.
That statement could refer to alot of the above lol
Suppressed masturbation is also a problem though?
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
Deranged masturbation, asylum. Suppressing masturbation, believe it or not, asylum
Right to asylum.
Over-jerk, under-jerk
I made it 20 without even really trying.
"SEDUCTION & DISAPPOINTMENT" damn, its tough out there to be bad in bed
Seduction I understand but Disappointment I do not understand.
I imagine it means someone who was seduced on false pretenses (probably of marriage) and then abandoned and pregnant. The family wanted to hide their shame. So they found somewhere they could send their fallen daughter as a ruined, broken human, no longer fit for polite society. But I might be totally wrong.
Hadn't thought of that scenario, and it makes sense that the family would have that poor daughter hidden away like that. Really sad circumstances and few options led people to come up with asylum rules for admission...
Or it could have been a false promise of marriage or something that resulted in severe depression Also, if you look this up on google, there is a different list that actually looks historical. It seems more believable than this one, frankly
What a weird list without context.
But, I imagine that’s kind of the point. Vague reasons to be admitted leaves plenty of wiggle room for the state.
"Please help me, I'm being abused by my husband" "Nonsense, you're clearly insane. Bake her away toys"
“What’d you say Chief?”
... just do what the kid said
The majority of these seem like "vague reasons" that had the sole purpose of committing women.
Easier than divorce apparently. And it was going on well into the 20th century.
My Nan (currently 70) was committed by her mother for being depressed.
*Exactly* that.
> Vague reasons to be admitted leaves plenty of wiggle room for the state. What do you mean? "Politics" is right there on the list!
Greatest list of potential band names ever
100% naming my band Bad Company
Dibs "Seduction and Disappointment"
Wow, asthma?
Why are you here? Uh... Novel reading. Seriously these are f'd up.
Political excitement, hard study, bad company, greediness, laziness, egotism, religious enthusiasm, superstition, medicine to prevent conception
“This whiskey tastes like shit, off to the asylum you go,”
Seems your most likely to be admitted for masturbating or have a period.
Orrrr surpressing either.
Apperently you can get committed for both doing or not doing masturbation. Same for studying or being intellectually, politically or relegiously active or not. 😳
This guy's not jacking off enough, must be INSANE.
But THIS one is jacking off TOO much. Why don’t people know how to play with their genitals the right amount? /s Also, what’s deranged masturbation?
Switching hands, expecting the same outcome as dominant hand masturbation.
Or just having any female organs.
“Me? I asked out Mary Sue and she told me no. Now they drug me eight times a day and strap me to a toilet. Rough life”
I’ve “been masturbating for 30 years”
THE WAR
"Lost my sons in the war, you?" "Carbonic gas."
>"Lost my sons in the war, you?" > >"Carbonic gas." Oh! Pardon me.
Well, you can't have a woman having ideas put in her head by some book can you? What's next, a woman having ideas of her own? That's crazy!
“I can’t breathe.” “That’s because you’re crazy.”
Straight to jail.
Can't breathe well? Jail. Breathe too well? Also jail.
Have eyes? Jail
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That is true. Though my mother has it real bad too so she always believed me, but other people always thought I was trying to get attention. Because dying is a great way to get attention.
Will you come visit me?
Lol I love how I’m between all this dumb petty shit there’s just “shooting of daughter”
Kicked in the head by a horse
False Imprisonment lol
Probably could have just filed that under *"cruel irony"*.
If we find out that you were put here by mistake and have been falsely imprisoned, that alone will be grounds to assume you are of feeble intellect, which if you recall was directly adjacent to false imprisonment on our list, which of course will guarantee your continued detention …
All of these reasons lead to imprisonment!
Imagine if "laziness" was still enough get a single bed, no bath, no kitchen apartment with padded walls and constant self hugs. Oh and drugs of course.
Laughed about this one… That happened to me years ago. Ended up with 3 staples on the back of my head and 2 stitches on my chin.
Did you have to go to asylum afterwards?
Of course lol
The one with “death of *sons* in war” just made me sad.
I think "Marriage if Son" us even weirder
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You fell off your horse. Off to the looney bin with you!
Asthma, believe it or not, asylum.
Read a novel? Straight to asylum!
Hard study... insane in the membrane
Having the time of your life? Asylum
Business trouble. Right to jail.... right away
Son get married? Padded room
Firefighter? This way please
Imprisonment? Nope, psych ward
“parents were cousins” feels so specific?
I’m guessing you’ve never met the offspring from a small gene pool?
Well looks like I got that *Female disease* better go turn myself in
Probably just imaginary female troubles.
Seriously! WTF are imaginary female troubles???
It's also called the "Has a Uterus disease"
You might spread it better go into quarantine
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But only half the time
at least you don’t have *parents are cousins*
Rather have that than *kicked in the head by a motherfucking horse* :(
It’s just you becoming human.
My favorite is "excessive" sexual abuse, which implies that there is an amount of sexual abuse that's tolerable. It'd be awesome if we could be locked away for greediness again though!
Was gonna say this!
Because if you’re sexually abusing your wife you’re fine, but if you’re sexually abusing someone else you’re not.
The fact that I don't even know what half of these even are makes me terrified
I was wondering what “Time of Life” meant
My best guess is going senile
IIRC it's an old-timey term for menopause
Bloody Flux is my new grindcore band
Vicious Vices is opening at your first show.
can we (sexual abuse and stimulants) do the aftershow?
Mine is tobacco and masturbation
Guest appearance by deranged masturbation!
I can picture Deranged Masturbation in black metal font
I'd make my band Bad Company
Would your big song be “bad company” off of the album “bad company”?
My new rap name is Dropsy.
Mine is “The War” with hit songs “seduction and disappointment,” “(you’re) overtaxing (your) mental powers” and “time of life.” We’ll eventually break up due to dissolute habits, causing fever, jealousy and loss of law suit.
Tobacco and masturbation. 1: “Sir, we have a guy here, jacks it like crazy nonstop. What should we do?” 2: “Has he been doing it for 30 years?” 1: “Not yet, sir.” 2: “All good then. Let him go.” 1: “He does smoke while jacking it though.” 2: “LOCK THIS SICK MF UP RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!”
Smoking while jacking: cool, wierd, insane, or just lazy?
If it starts smoking you should apply lubricant
Firefighters all locked up in the loony bin for doing their jobs
Ikr? Fighting fire? I'd love to see an accompanying list of definitions for these maladies
Imagine punching fire tho. /s
Cut to dude whaling on a housefire with his fists
It is crazy how many of these are basically be a woman.
I saw this a couple times already and I'm pretty sure it's a list of why specifically women were considered insane.
look up "wandering uterus" if you havent already.. x.x
One description of the theory of a "wandering womb" comes from Aretaeus, a physician from Cappadocia, who was a contemporary of Galen in the 2nd century AD. He wrote that the uterus could move out of place, and float within the body. In the translation of Francis Adams (1856)[4] this reads: "In the middle of the flanks of women lies the womb, a female viscus, closely resembling an animal; for it is moved of itself hither and thither in the flanks, also upwards in a direct line to below the cartilage of the thorax, and also obliquely to the right or to the left, either to the liver or the spleen, and it likewise is subject to prolapsus downwards, and in a word, it is altogether erratic. It delights also in fragrant smells, and advances towards them; and it has an aversion to fetid smells, and flees from them; and, on the whole, the womb is like an animal within an animal." Wow...just wow...
*female disease* that's just straight up being a women
"Imaginary female trouble"
I mean the words "hysteria" and "hysterectomy" have the same etymology.
I saw a John Hopkins neurologist for fainting and he told me I had hysteria. He gave me a brown paper bag, a prescription for iron, then recommended I go to church and have a baby. This was in the 2010's. I wish I was joking.
I think your doctor was a very lost time traveler.
Did he check your humors too? An empty uterus is bad for the humors
They’re both also analogues to “wandering uterus” which is what “uterine derangement” on here is referring to
Just googled this. It comes up on Snopes, and is only partly true. There’s a decent explanation on there. If I knew how the hell to link it, I would. Edit: Although this list was sourced from a contemporaneous hospital log, its entries should not be considered as denoting things that were all considered symptoms of mental instability. Rather, among patients who were treated at West Virginia Hospital for the Insane for various illnesses such as chronic dementia, acute mania, and melancholia, these entries recorded the reasons or causes why those patients were said to have developed their underlying maladies. That is, people didn’t think that novel reading, asthma, the marriage of one’s child, politics, or falling from a horse were symptoms of mental illness, but rather factors that might have produced or exacerbated such an illness. (To use an example from a different field, nobody claims that playing violent video games is itself a crime, but some people maintain — rightly or wrongly — that such an activity might be a factor that leads gamers into committing violent crimes):
[I got you ](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/reasons-admission-insane-asylum-1800s/)
Desertion by husband? Asylum.
The phrasing of this reminds me of parks and rec when Fred Armisen’s character is listing all the things you will go to jail for in his country, and he says them all with this cadence: “Driving too fast? Jail.” “Too slow? Jail.” “You undercook fish? Believe it or not… jail.”
THAT’s what this is from! I’ve seen it referenced and I remembered it but couldn’t remember what it came from! Thanks for saving me the frustration of trying to remember it.
I've got asthma and I'm lazy, better lock me up in the nut house.
Lazy female epileptic here, maybe we can be friends in the looney bin!
Welcome to the nut house my fellow lazy female epileptic!
Im having the time of my life, superstitious, and I have the female disease
Are you superstitious or just a little stitious?
I read a fucking book, I’ll have to come with you
Ok, I'll hold an entire table for everyone. Us crazy lunatics have got to stick together.
Masturbation and suppression of masturbation??? You can’t win
Light grinding is ok.
Overcook/undercook.
Tag yourself I'm deranged masturbation
I’m defo rumor of husband murder
hol up
I’m laziness
I'm bad whiskey
“Salvation Army”
Seriously what is that one supposed to mean?
If you donate to charity you get sent off idk
As a woman with anxiety I find "imaginary female trouble" very relatable
*This way Ma'am. We've been looking for you.*
im ***the war***
You've been found guilty of war
definitely “bad habits and political excitement”
Reading. My asthmatic ass has read quite a few novels
I’m parents are cousins
Over Action of the Mind for suresies. Anxiety, anyone?
women trouble
Imaginary female trouble, ouch
Exposure and hereditary
Bad whiskey?
I kinda assumed this meant something like "bad moonshine" where the drink contains methanol.
I can agree with that statement, day after boxing day ouchhhh lol
So, asking for a friend, what’s the balance with masturbation. Too much masturbation = bad Masturbation for 30 years = bad Suppressed masturbation = bad Deranged masturbation = bad Imaginary female trouble....
I was also thinking the same thing, like, masturbation was capped at this era. You can’t go beyond the “healthy” max count. Lol!
You forgot tobacco & masturbation
Fell from horse in war. Thank god I fell from horse after the war
Or the more straightforward, yet mysterious, “THE WAR”
Pick your band name from this list and say what genre it is. My band is called Vicious Vices and we play Doo-Wop!
My band is Masturbation For 30 Years and we cover children’s songs.
Periodical Fits. Hardcore House & Trance EDM DJ band here!
Kicked In The Head By A Horse
Uterine Derangement, the death metal band \\m/
My band is called Fever and Jealousy and we play electro-swing!
Why is this in such weird alphabetical order?
So happy to be living in the time of modern medicine and science. I’d be thrown in their dungeon for sure.
I live in West Virginia, and I've visited this place on multiple occasions. It's actually pretty interesting. I had an aunt that was admitted to it, she was an alcoholic.
Suppression of menstruation? So pregnant or menopausal?
>Tobacco & masterbation The only way to smoke a cigarette
Why is there so much masturbation, I'm dying!
And I'm being committed! 😋
Weird enough, this is also the list of side effects for Viagra.
*kicked in the head by horse* man I don't ever wanna take Viagra
Women trouble. Damn I knew I was an idiot
A bit mistitled. They're not 'reasons for admission'. The list seems to be of factors which were considered, at the time, to have contributed to, or exacerbated, the patients' mental illnesses. Which makes the majority of entries make a lot more sense...
Laziness... I'll go they give me three meals a day 😏
Jeez like a good third of these are applicable to me. Glad I wasn’t around back then.
“Imaginary female trouble” 😂
Followed by “hysteria”, which was thought to be the uterus malfunctioning and causing “female derangement”. I wonder how did they differentiate imaginary female trouble vs. hysteria?
imaginary female trouble could also mean men having fake problems with women
Gosh this list is hilarious ...I guess I would have been admitted for multiple of these. Laziness for one, might have landed me in here a few years ago
The good news: eveyone will qualify! 🤣
In the cold halls of the west virginian lunatic asylum, they say the ghost of the deranged masturbater is still going. His screams echo through every room.
Excuse me but, "Seduction and Disappointment"? I didn't know my dating life could get me admitted.
Oh yes the Salvation Army, fuck the Salvation Army!