Comments on: Washington Post Clearly Regretting Layoffs, Buyouts http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/10/28/washington-post-clearly-regretting-layoffs-buyouts/ A blog about mental health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:55:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ken Wolman http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/10/28/washington-post-clearly-regretting-layoffs-buyouts/comment-page-1/#comment-3940 Ken Wolman Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:22:55 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2008/10/28/washington-post-clearly-regretting-layoffs-buyouts/#comment-3940 "Political excitement, religious enthusiasm and seduction also were symptoms that could merit a few years, or a lifetime, of confinement." Oh God, I would have been SO locked up back then. As it is...I heard that the old time mental hospitals were deliberately constructed on hilltops so the "bad air" from the asylum would not drift down and infect the "normal" people with madness. I share a faculty office with several other people and we're all quite around the bend. I wonder if it's my fault. “Political excitement, religious enthusiasm and seduction also were symptoms that could merit a few years, or a lifetime, of confinement.”

Oh God, I would have been SO locked up back then. As it is…I heard that the old time mental hospitals were deliberately constructed on hilltops so the “bad air” from the asylum would not drift down and infect the “normal” people with madness.

I share a faculty office with several other people and we’re all quite around the bend. I wonder if it’s my fault.

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