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Locked Away and Forgotten: The Dark Truth About 1800s Asylums

They were labeled insane—and in an age with no mercy, many disappeared. But one asylum in Oregon tells a different, haunting ...
The treatment of mental illness has an unsavory history, and the cruelty inflicted upon the mentally ill in asylums throughout western history has been well-documented. However, in the 1700s and 1800s ...