Anne Bollmann (Annelise Lestrange)’s Reviews > Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum > Status Update

“Generations have kept on running, afraid to turn and look back. But you cannot outrun pain. It will creep down the branches of your family tree until it finds someone who is tiring of the sprint. It will take hold of that person who is willing to acknowledge that it is there, and demand that they find their way back through the forest.”

“I believe that madness is part of all of us, all the time, that it comes and goes, waxes and wanes.—Otto Friedrich”

“By the time I entered,” he explained, “chains had been replaced by drugs. So the chains were still there.” - Doug

“No form of medicine is immune to societal influence and manipulation.”

"Sometimes learning can be just as painful as not knowing.” - Paul Lurz

"(...) after years of observing my own family, I’ve grown convinced that when you swallow your pain it never does digest. I suspect that untreated pain curdles your blood and changes your code. It sinks into your bones, it blisters to the surface, and then it presents like diabetes, alcoholism, depression, obsessive compulsion, cancer.”

“I had been looking at Crownsville as an imposing place of study and investigation. She was looking at something more akin to a snow globe—a significant period of her life frozen in time and constrained in glass.”