@hatsu_mt: In the 19th century, psychiatric hospitals in Europe and Russia were a cross between a prison and a circus. Patients with mental disorders weren't treated; they were displayed for money to the curious public, like exotic animals. People paid to peer at the "madmen" through bars, laughing at their grimaces and incoherent speech. Only towards the end of the century did the first attempts at a scientific approach begin to emerge: isolation gave way to observation, and chains gave way to the first therapeutic methods. But the aftertaste of that era remains—in language, in jokes, in that very word "madhouse," which we utter without even considering the path it evokes. #madhouse #originalcharater #fyp #illustration #meme