The private asylum : how I got in and out : an autobiography / by a Clerical Ex-Lunatic.

Date:
[1889]
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Credit: The private asylum : how I got in and out : an autobiography / by a Clerical Ex-Lunatic. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    from delusions about conspiracies, and that I was a Lunatic, and of unsound mind. In excuse for them, I can only suggest that some information which my rela- tions had been secretly giving them about me some ten days before, had been remembered, and been supposed to have been derived from myself. I feel, of course, that the accumulated evidence of relations, and at least of ten medical men, is strong against me, but truth must prevail. If there was any conspiracy at all, it existed between these parties, and had such a thing ever occurred to my mind, I should never have invited nervous relations to join me on a holiday tour, but have taken my far saner companions, my dogs alone, who never saw any change in me. If the person, whoever it might be, who advised my wife to take the step she did, had been charged with four or five guineas a week for my board in the Asylums, I suspect that I should very soon have been pronounced to be perfectly recovered ; or if my parishioners had found a shilling rate charged for my maintenance, I expect a deputation would soon have visited me, and insisted on taking me back with them.