“Wild appearance and manner” from the Patient Certificates and Notices: Admission dates 1870-1871
While this patient’s “Facts indicating Insanity” differs from Bertha – or at least so far as I’m concerned – this one saddens me quite a bit more. To genuinely believe that your mother is still alive, and therein to be kept from her is deeply saddening. And to not be able to sleep because you hear voices of another family in the room during the night is also dejecting. While I couldn’t find the treatment outline, I hope she was not neglected and gaslighted. Because those convictions are true to her, and to be spurned would be pretty painful and lonely
Same patient as photo #2
