The Victorians Were Right!

Interesting. I love the history of the Victorian times, it was my favourite part of history at school and I continue to find myself interested in their history and ways of life.

Unfortunately if you were autistic, different or mentally ill during that time you were often sent away, kept locked in and hidden away by your own family, or you were put in mental asylums where you were "treated" which was more less torture.

This site is interesting, it tells how mental health was viewed in different times.

studymore.org.uk/mhhtim.htm

but she want feeling bad anymore so i guess it helped...

manchesters a dump, the entire north west is. 
i live in wigan myself, and if i say the place is a dump all the dumb locals without any critical thinking skills would defend it as if its a glorious golden nice resort... but yet they hate it too and dream of living somewhere nice like spain. so they agree with me that its a dump but yet take offence when you point it out, i dont understand when people are like that haha

it was very good for the rich few yes, but to the normal person theyd be shouted at and spoken down to and stress wasnt allowed to be acknowledged for the everyday folk and we were property, slaves, household objects for the aristocratic few. this is why i dont like the left wing narratives that hate on white people for slavery when our own common people were essentially slaves themselves and it was only the rich few aristocrats that was the bad guys behind everything, and not even all of them some of them wouldnt have been in on anything and was just not doing anything bad but enjoying their good life not directly harming anyone. so its a minority of the absolute aristocratic privileged minority that we all end up getting hated for while our direct descendants were essentially slaves too.... *** i subject changed in my rambling waffle lol im sure it fits somehow.... but yeah the normal people were treated terribly and its probably bad for us to make out everyone had it good or was aristocrats as it fuels the hatred against all of us for what the few minority of us did ages ago before even our great great grandfathers pet cat was born.

One of the things I struggle with the most about Britain is how much nature has been pillaged here. The seaside towns are often better because you can't do anything to the sea and beaches. Places like the Lake District and Snowdonia National Park are very nice, arguably even more uplifting than seaside places. Although some of the seaside towns in Snowdonia are more or less perfect, but for the fact that they're a bit poor and isolated, places like Porthmadog and Criccieth. 

I've stayed in London a few times and I wanted to like it and bits of it I do but it's just too frenetic. The same with Manchester. I definitely see it has lots of good points but it's too industrialised and built up for me. I think large cities and towns should be redesigned. Demolish a lot of the semi-detached houses, build more parks and build more terraced houses with garden squares similar to London. In a country of high population like Britain it's hard to have both suburbia and greenery unless you count people's gardens which in my opinion are dull and just a tedium to maintain, I think parks are better.

In 1849 Anne Brontë was ill so she travelled from Haworth to Scarborough, hoping that the fresh sea air would do her some good.  Soon after arriving in Scarborough she passed away from TB, aged just 29.

When we also look at the history of public parks, we also realise that the doctors of even pre-Victorian times insisted that fresh air was essential to maintain good health, given the number of public parks on the outskirts of industrialised cities like here in Manchester for example -  since Covid, I’ve discovered so many public parks in my local area of Manchester during the past 4 summers and frankly, it has been a lifeline when I was not able to get home to family in Ireland, having lived 21 years here in Manchester, whose industrial heritage is well documented - when you come to Manchester a visit to the science and industry museum near Deansgate/Castlefield is a must, as is a visit to the Hilton Hotel Cloud bar on the Beetham Tower, the views are stunning and iconic 25 floors up (the private apartments go up to the 47th floor) and on windy days the building emits a humming noise which can be heard all over the City Centre 

My life was going at 100mph and then, 8 months ago, it grounded to a halt. I basically disappeared from the life I was living and I'm still hiding.

It comes with its own troubles but I needed it, in a way. I'd have been more stressed had things carried on as normal, but in this case I had no choice. I probably wouldn't have made the choice myself because of how much I believed I needed to check Twitter every day...

I'm in that weird position of almost enjoying not being on socials and not really talking to anyone, because I've been burnt and I'd rather not go through it again.

It's a great idea, doubtless most effective. 

Then, as now, most people don't have the means for it. 

Our lifestyle is too fast-paced.

Even the Lord needed time out, to pray.

Very interesting.