tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post4214794626586866072..comments2024-03-14T23:52:09.893-07:00Comments on The Neurocritic: The Gennie Messages at Manteno State HospitalThe Neurocritichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-62294630302537709642022-04-07T11:57:45.183-07:002022-04-07T11:57:45.183-07:00My mother was a patient at Manteno State Hospital ...My mother was a patient at Manteno State Hospital for several years around 1950 for a nervous breakdown. How do I find records for patients during that time period? I am trying to piece together this information. I was 5 years old then and was in an orphanage as were my brothers and sisters, Lutheran Child Welfare in Addison. If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-19712376252036685942021-07-13T20:55:31.368-07:002021-07-13T20:55:31.368-07:00I suffered from IED and thank God, I live in this ...I suffered from IED and thank God, I live in this era where they give you choice. Sadly for her, that all she wanted was to live separately after she finish College. And then, after an argument with her parents they sent her to a mental asylum even though she is perfectly normal. Its just too much to bare.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-73030726208123097112019-07-06T13:12:55.106-07:002019-07-06T13:12:55.106-07:00Does Kristyn Vinikour run this blog? I am trying t...Does Kristyn Vinikour run this blog? I am trying to reach her. <br /><br />Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-71059562150102121382018-05-28T13:24:41.937-07:002018-05-28T13:24:41.937-07:00Had to work awfully hard to find this. I find the ...Had to work awfully hard to find this. I find the footage of asylums and our understanding of mental illness and even not mentally ill persons who found their way into asylums to be a page out of a horror novel for humanity. I wonder how many polymaths, geniuses and societal leaders died for the sake of experimentation. I am glad to see that Gennie Pilarski's story was able to come to life. <br /><br />Suffering from PTSDcomplex myself, I can breathe a sigh of relief that asylums like this aren't the standard for care now. But I can also say that we have a long way as a society in understanding integration and care of especially the mentally ill/ and disabled populations. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-55064644424596836342015-10-31T13:02:57.271-07:002015-10-31T13:02:57.271-07:00From 1937 to 1939 my husband's grandfather was...From 1937 to 1939 my husband's grandfather was a patient at Manteno State Hospital, being treated for syphillis by being given injections of Malaria. He was supposed to leave at the 1 year mark but because of the Thyphoid outbreak he was quarantined until the outbreak was over. Because he tested positive as a carrier (he never had an active illness) he was moved to the one building where they had moved all the sick patients. There were 6 men that tested positive but didn't have the disease. They asked to separated from the ill patients and were given a separate room. They were still exposed to the sick patients because Henry swept and mopped the floors, and took out the trash. He also helped feed the sick patients. He had been allowed to leave on week ends to visit with his sister-in-laws family in Chicago until this outbreak happened. I have his journal that he mailed to his wife weekly to let her know how and what he was doing on a daily basis. He worked in the carpenter shop and built one of the operating room tables, trash carts and made toy boxes and plant stands out of fruit crates from the kitchen. They were still building the hospital and he would gather scrap wood and make name plates for the staff. He earned enough money to buy his bus ticket back to Nashville, Tn.<br /><br />mamadoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05933319215687364055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-46329613878529701192015-10-17T12:35:23.931-07:002015-10-17T12:35:23.931-07:00I kno that this was how it was back in those days ...I kno that this was how it was back in those days but what is most disturbing is why. How can a normal person be committed to an isulim? I'm sure so many people went in normal and never was the same again. Whatever become of her parents?Lesliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12352054220346914607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-10977122714901836072014-09-24T15:33:38.955-07:002014-09-24T15:33:38.955-07:00As someone who routinely disagreed with my parents...As someone who routinely disagreed with my parents on all sorts of things, I am quite happy I was born into an era, when, not doing exactly as my parents wished, I could be subjected to such torture, I can almost hear my mother telling me..."We just want you to be happy!" as Im being drug down the hall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-1377711759720684252013-04-14T09:16:25.849-07:002013-04-14T09:16:25.849-07:00Wow...how sad to rob this young woman of her life....Wow...how sad to rob this young woman of her life. We should'nt let people play Doctor when they obviously are not. Scary thought is some were doctors. Thanks for bringing her story to us, as a health care professional I won't forget it.Doug, Gainesville Flnoreply@blogger.com