Mental healthcare has a long way to go, true, but it has come a long way from where it used to be. Today, Jordan tells the story of Nellie Bly, a 23-year-old reporter for the New York World, and her expose on an asylum...after being admitted as a patient.

Source: Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly, 1887.

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