« Reply #4 on: Friday 28 July 23 01:31 BST (UK) »
Thanks for replying. Yes, I think it is likely. I wasn't sure if people ever got out of these asylums! Maybe it depended on why they went in in the first place?
One of my mother's female cousins was put in an asylum by her husband.
She was born very early in the 20th century and after the birth of a baby her husband had two doctors sign that she should be put into the local asylum (children know it as the 2loony bin").
Her sisters thought that she was suffering from and should have been treated as having, "baby blues".
Her family asked the husband to sign her out but he refused and remarried. As the husband had had her admitted he was the only one who could request her release. Eventually she'd been in there so long that her family thought she'd been "institutionalised" and did not think she could think for herself and live outside the institution.
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