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A Chapter From Real Life. By A Recovered Patient
At certain periods of life we live years of emotion in a few weeks; and look back on those times as great gaps between the old life and the new. You do not know how much you suffer in those critical maladies of the heart, until the disease is over, and you look on it afterward....
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Title: A Chapter From Real Life. By A Recovered Patient
Creator:  L.
Date: February 1854
Format: Article
Publication: The Opal
Source: New York State Library
Control no.: 051 O612 1854
Location: vol.4, no.2, pp.48-50
Keywords: Advocacy; Asylums; Autobiography; Disease; Eating Disorders; Government Agencies; Health & Medicine; Identity; Insanity; Institutions; Medicine; Moral Treatment; New York; New York State Lunatic Asylum; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health & Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy