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The Starry Night (1889)

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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What Was the Role of the Asylum?

Mental health care in the 1880s is like 20 doctors and coats observing you. Like, should we make him help him get better at all? "It seems like a lot of ghosts in his head. Let's drill a hole in it" The asylum did restricts Van Gogh but they also did not like cure anything or resolve anything. He ultimately died shortly after.

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