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Search for She's on the Money Now wherever you get your podcasts. Imagine being locked away for life just because someone thought you were odd or different.

A hundred years ago, you didn't even need a real diagnosis to end up in a mental hospital.

If you were poor, widowed, an immigrant who

couldn't speak English, or just didn't fit society's roles, you could find yourself behind the

heavy doors of what they called a lunatic asylum. These weren't hospitals like we think of today.

They were places where people were hidden, forgotten, and often mistreated.

This week on weird history, we're pulling back the iron gates and stepping inside America's

earliest psychiatric institutions, places with crumbling walls, cold stone corridors, and stories

that still haunt us. While some of this history is horrific,

it shaped the mental health care system we know today. Now, quick warning, this episode dives

into some heavy topics, including abuse, neglect, and medical treatments that often caused more harm than good.

So if you think this is just some dull history lesson, think again, because the truth is

darker than fiction. And to understand how bad things were, let's go back to 1887.

A 23-year-old journalist named Nellie Bly did something that no one had dared before.

She faked insanity to get committed in an asylum.

She wanted to expose what life was really like for patients.

Not the polished version, doctors told the public,

but the raw, ugly truth. Nellie wanted to cover serious topics, but as a woman in a male-dominated

field, she had to fight for every assignment. She went into the office of Joseph Pulitzer, the editor

of a major newspaper called The New York World.

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