When Sanity Became a Crime

But for thousands of people in 19th-century America, it felt more like exile. Behind the walls of marble and brick, grief was labeled insanity.
Women who spoke too loud were called hysterical.
Men who broke down after war were declared “unfit.” This isn’t a story about madness.
It’s about control, about how a young nation decided who was sane,
and who deserved to vanish behind locked doors.

When Sanity Became a Crime explores the forgotten lives trapped in America’s asylums.
the records, the rooms, and the silence that still echoes.

Because the question has never really been who lost their mind.
It’s who had the power to define it?

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