You Don't Have to be Crazy to be Catholic...

Amand Gautier's lithograph; showing personifications of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotomania and paralysis in the gardens of the Hospice de la Salpêtrière. (1857) Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, New Haven, Connecticut, via Wikipedia see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder#Eighteenth_century
Assorted insanity, personified. Gautier lithograph (1857)

When mental health, or lack thereof, pops up in stuff I read, I take notice. That happened Sunday afternoon, and I realized that I'd found something to talk about this week.

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(Taking both mental health care and being Catholic seriously. A quick look at standards, the DSM, and principles. Mental health and my family.)

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