This article was about the 19th century and how back then there used to be many illnesses that people never realized were even there. In the beginning many colonists thought that people were getting sick because of witchcraft and demonic possession. Dorothea Dix was the women that went to the prison to teach prison women and then she had realized the harsh conditions in there so she went to the mental ill and complained for something to change. She had complained to an illinois legislature to demand for a special place to hold insane people and thus the insane Asylum was born. Hospitals soon got overcrowded and doctors got mad. Heredity was considered a reason of mental illness by the middle of the century. Lots of people also believed that alcoholism and masturbation could lead to madness. After the word got out about the bad conditions in the asylum there had started to be changes like static electricity was used to cure patients and by the end there was a change in psychiatry.
In my opinion this is sick why cant people look into mental illnesses and fix them this is why people back then went mental because no one took care of them. If i were born in the 19th century or had a time machine I would so go back in time and change the thoughts of people and society and try to put more details into fixing asylums and creating better condtions for mental people. This is horrible I cant imagine living in a asylum and just bad condtions I would go even more crazy and start a riot and beat random people up.
