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“under the existing arrangements any English man or woman may without much difficulty be incarcerated in a Private Lunatic Asylum when not deprived of reason” (“The Position”).

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Woman’s “Rights” ~ the right to care for men and children. In the 1800′s, the ideology of Separate Spheres for the sexes rested on a definition of the ‘natural’ characteristics of women and men.

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Even if a woman has a well-thought-out reason for being upset, a guy might say, ‘You’re just being emotional.’ It’s a way to discredit her instead of having to listen; the words ‘you’re acting crazy’ really mean ‘I don’t have to pay attention to you.’”

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2014/09/75146/stop-women-crazy-emotions-gender

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“The Uterus, it must be remembered, is the controlling organ in the female body, being the most excitable of all. ... Women disposed to hysteria are generally capricious in their character. Some are exceedingly excitable and impatient, others obstinate or frivolous ... and exhibit traits which ordinarily they are not supposed to possess.” ~Frederick Hollick, The Diseases of Women, Their Causes and Cure Familiarly Explained.

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Alienation. I am defective not just for others but for myself: I inhabit this body, yet I live at a distance from it as its judge, its monitor, its commandant.

Sandra Bartky, Skin Deep: Femininity as a Disciplinary Regime

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Female mediums in the 1890s claimed freedoms that in most cases were otherwise denied to women: sexual liberties, as well as an authoritative voice to offer counsel on matters ranging from marriage to politics, and the material benefits associated with money, fame, travel, and access to the elite.

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The hugely popular spiritualist movement, which maintained that women were uniquely qualified to commune with spirits of the dead, offered female mediums a new independence, authority, and potential to undermine conventional class and gender relations in the home and in society.

The Darkened Room - The University of Chicago Press

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Then, and in many cases, now - “madness was used to label and manage dangerous, disruptive femininity in the nineteenth century.” ~Lyn Pykett

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“The physician’s diagnosis indicates a few things; first and foremost that he is shit at his job, or, to give him the benefit of the doubt: he is relying heavily on his misogyny in order to determine the lady’s condition.” ~Rachel Vorona Cote

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We rescue each other, as we rescue ourselves. ~me

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“I am not one of those who dismiss a priori the study of so-called occult psychic phenomena as unscientific, discreditable or even as dangerous. If I were at the beginning rather than at the end of a scientific career, as I am today, I might possibly choose just this field of research, in spite of all difficulties.”

~Sigmund Freud

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In reaction to trauma

A common reaction to trauma is having intrusive thoughts and memories: After a traumatic event, it is common to experience some intrusive thoughts and memories of the traumatic event. This is especially likely to occur when you encounter something (for example, a person, place, or image) that reminds you of the traumatic event.