Response To Nellie's Incident

Besides Josephine, Nellie met many other women in the asylum. A few reports stuck out dramatically due to the severity nurses used to punish undeserving patients. One patient reported thinking she had seen her husband. The patient got out of the line the nurses had placed her in, in order to go to him. The patient later reports to Nellie how the nurses had responded:
For crying the nurses beat me with a broom-handle and jumped on me, injuring me internally, so that I shall never get over it. Then they tied my hands and feet, and, throwing a sheet over my head, twisted it tightly around my throat, so I could not scream, and thus put me in a bathtub filled with cold water. They held me under until I gave up every hope and became senseless. At other times they took hold of my ears and beat my head on the floor and against the wall. Then they pulled out my hair by the roots, so that it will never grow in again (Bly np).
The nurses mistreatment was brought upon the fact the patient had seen an image of her husband. Seeing her husband was most likely brought upon by the patient’s disability. Unfortunately, the nurses had no compassion. The
In response to a sick patient asking politely if when being bathed the staff could go more gently she says, “"There isn't much fear of hurting you. Shut up, or you'll get it worse” (Bly, np) This quote by itself speaks volumes. The nurses are completely unconcerned by the fact they are torturing the patients. The poor girl was sick when forced to take a cold bath. She was not allowed to bathe herself, and mistreated by the way the nurse’s scrubbed harshly. The nurse disgustingly informs the patient that they are fine with hurting her, and would hurt her worse if she complained again. The way the nurses treat the patients is sick. Out of the few actual insane people emitted to the asylum Bly stayed in, the nurses are astronomically more