Gallery: 10 Of The Craziest Reasons People Were Tossed In An Asylum Back In The Day

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10 Of The Craziest Reasons People Were Tossed In An Asylum Back In The Day
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Kendra Beltran
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Our world may not be perfect today, but back in the 1800s it was just plain cray. No really, they thought everyone belonged in an asylum for a laundry list of reasons that are just laughable today. Can you imagine being accused of being insane just because you were a bit hysterical, or had a fever, or some bad whiskey? These were actual things you'd get locked up for at Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia back then. While some made sense like shooting your daughter or marrying your son, we just had to point out the weirdest ones that made NO sense at all.

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Growing up in a double wide trailer in the middle of a California desert, Kendra used her smarts to go to college. Only she didn't realize that adulthood was the next stop after graduation. Struggling to start any sort of career out of a makeshift degree, she fell into blogging. Experiencing a multitude of highs and lows on that path...she wouldn't trade it for a typical 9-5 ever. Today she spends her days writing while simultaneously going back and forth between binging Frasier and The Office.

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