The women suffrage reform was not the only time that a woman bagan to stand up for a change that she had passion for. In 1843, Dorothea dix stated that the insane were "confined in this Commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, beaten with rods, lashed into obedience”. People with psychiatric conditions were usually treated in inhumane and brutal ways.The "insane" during this time were viewed as animalistic. They were also were ridiculed by the public, sometimes kept in asylums which had inhumane conditions,they were forced to be chained and neglected , faced tortuous "treatments" including whipping, beating, bloodletting, shocking, starvation, irritant chemicals, and isolation. After Benjamin Rush’s death, a physician
