Mental Health Notes Asks: What Do You Really Want? July Edition
July 26, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
It’s July 26, and for completely random reasons, it’s time for another edition of What Do You Really Want?
Since the last edition of What Do You Really Want?, there’s been a pretty well-balanced mix of serious and hilarious searches. So, I thought I’d represent them both. And, hopefully I’ve been able to point you in the right direction with each of them.
5 MHN Search Phrases I May or May Not Be Able to Help You With
“celebrities disorder” – Hmm…while I’m not opposed to discussing the possibility that being a celebrity might actually be a problem, I do believe it’s yet …read more
Ghost Hunters Declare The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum Haunted
May 27, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
“The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum creeps me out.” – Jason Hawes of Ghost Hunters during the “Haunted Asylum” episode.
Deserted prisons. Timeworn schools. Decaying mental hospitals. They all seem to offer luxury resort-style accommodations for those galling ghouls and pesky phantoms that, for whatever reason, just can’t seem to let go of this world.
Especially those buildings that fall into the third category.
Such is the case with the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
Back in March, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of the Sci Fi Channel’s “Ghost Hunters” and The Atlantic Paranormal Society ventured to the Weston, West Virginia hospital (which has undergone several name changes …read more
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum Upsets Mental Health Advocates
March 25, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
According to The Charleston Gazette article Groups protest ‘lunatic asylum’ name, a pre-Civil War mental hospital in Weston, West Virginia has – after undergoing several name changes spanning the 19th and 20th centuries including “West Virginia Hospital for the Insane,” “Weston State Hospital,” and then simply “Weston Hospital” – gone back to using its maiden name of “Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.”
Unsurprisingly, many mental health groups in West Virginia are outraged. Folks from the Mountain State Direct Action Center, the West Virginia Mental Health Consumers Association, the West Virginia Mental Health Planning Council, and the West Virginia Americans with Disabilities Act Coalition …read more




