Anne Bollmann (Annelise Lestrange)’s Reviews > Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum > Status Update
Anne Bollmann (Annelise Lestrange)
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“Early records and photos of Crownsville’s founding led me to question America’s legacy of race in mental health: What does it mean to be healthy and well enough to clear the woods, build a road, and construct a hospital, yet also be so sick you require institutionalization? How do we decide who’s irredeemable and who’s capable of recovery?”
— Feb 28, 2026 08:59AM
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Anne Bollmann (Annelise Lestrange)
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"(...) after years of observing my own family, I’ve grown convinced that when you swallow your pain it never does digest. I suspect that untreated pain curdles your blood and changes your code. It sinks into your bones, it blisters to the surface, and then it presents like diabetes, alcoholism, depression, obsessive compulsion, cancer.”
— 11 hours, 49 min ago
Anne Bollmann (Annelise Lestrange)
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“I had been looking at Crownsville as an imposing place of study and investigation. She was looking at something more akin to a snow globe—a significant period of her life frozen in time and constrained in glass.”
— 12 hours, 52 min ago
