I missed it unfortunately, bet it was interesting. Things are given fancy names today like Bi-Polar and attention deficit disorder. Like you say they used to just get on with it. But saying that a lot of 'normal' people were also locked away for minor misdemeanours, such as having children out of wedlock at a very young age, it seemed to be if anyone was out of the ordinary or caused any trouble to their families they were locked away. I remember many years ago nursing an old lady on the medical ward I was working on at the time, she was sent to us from Calderstones, which was a well know psychiatric hospital near Burnley. She was put there by her family at the age of 15, because she was having a baby, she was classed as promiscuous and unruly, she was too much trouble to her family, so she was locked away "for her own good". That lady had been shut away in a mental institution for most of her life all because she was different. When actually all she was, was a bit 'slow'.
Stephanie.
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