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“The asylum years taught me a lot about myself. Bear in mind I’m the only lunatic in the United Kingdom who spent time in all three max secure asylums, which you should now know are…Rampton, Broadmoor and Ashworth. Don’t ask me which is the best or the worst, as how do you compare insanity with insanity?”
Stephen Richards
“Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I’m now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!”
Stephen Richards, Insanity: My Mad Life“Asylums are crazy places, with crazy rules. If you’re not mad when you arrive, you are when you leave. (That’s if you ever leave.) I was lucky…I got slung out; they couldn’t afford to keep me any longer.”
Stephen Richards, Insanity: My Mad Life“Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to the significance of symptoms such as hearing voices, losing temporal and spatial orientation, and sensing that one is being followed, and that many of the most spectacular and convincing of these symptoms in some instances psychiatrically signify merely a temporary emotional upset in a stressful situation, however terrifying to the person at the time. Similarly, the anxiety consequent upon this perception of oneself, and the strategies devised to reduce this anxiety, are not a product of abnormal psychology, but would be exhibited by any person socialized into our culture who came to conceive of himself as someone losing his mind.”
Erving Goffman, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates“Wisdomis in the insane asylums.The endis in the everyday-pale smiles”
Saif Alsaegh, Iraqi Headaches: Poems“Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.”
Virginia Woolf“Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.”
Everett M. Dirksen“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.”
E. W. Howe“I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.”
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace“I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.”
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