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SCOUT· 33%5h 04m·2026-01-08·ScienceBedlam: When Mental Illness Had No Mercy 😵💫🏥
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🏛️🕯️ Long before modern psychology, therapy, or compassion, there was Bedlam — Europe’s most infamous asylum and a symbol of how little the world understood the human mind. Founded in medieval London, it became a place of fear, confinement, and spectacle, where illness was confused with sin, and suffering was often…
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