Samantha1 on 5/3/2024 at 16:30
Thank you so much snobel!! This is so cool to read, since I never got to read the other files.
This one intrigued me especially:
"Entry One: Patient admitted self to Shalebridge after a nervous episode. Probably not a danger to self or others. Will observe and allow patient to rest and recuperate. Will probably be released and be able to return to his clock-working job shortly. - Doctor Ranker\n<p>\nEntry Two: Patient accidentally given electrical treatments with unfortunate consequences. Total psychosis. Extremely dangerous to others. Unpredictable. Sandbridge recommends further treatments to mitigate results of initial treatments. Patient may be allowed his clock-working tools to perform repairs in the Shock Therapy room only - under supervision, of course. - Doctor Ranker"
I think this is one of the many things that makes the shalebridge cradle so creepy. It was an asylum for insane people but if you look closely, those doctors werent quite in a healthy mind themselves :D
snobel on 6/3/2024 at 06:45
That's true - and the worst part is that those case stories could well be inspired by events from early psychiatry which apparently had its share of real Dr Rankers. :wot:
Samantha1 on 6/3/2024 at 19:38
Yes indeed. This stuff really happened back then. People didn´t understand the human´s psyche and had the honest believe that they could cure it over the body. So heat treatmeants, water treatments, electrical treatments, all that stuff was done to sick people, believing they could cure them through it. It´s so crazy.
And then there were also those doctors that were exploiting the patients, doing experiments on them so they could improve their sience. No one cares if a sick person with no family dies after all :rolleyes: