Ever thought about the snaps that might actually ‘shook’ the insides of your very own existence? We all know what an asylum or a mental hospital is. Some of us are so human that we even declare the word as the minimal minority of our own origin.

How about a special dreamy trip to the insights of the screams and sorrows of this section of the world? The history is like a vicious web of secrets and untold stories. They say all that glitters isn’t gold and all that the reality shows isn’t real. The life of those doctors, those nurses and most importantly those patients in the asylum is as brutally honest as a mirror.

We think of a mental patient but do we really understand their thought process? Did you ever think about how does it feel to sit at a place, in the same position for the entire day? No moving…no talking, just empty bottles of souls trying to find their ‘pathetic existence’.

Below are some of the most tingling and scrunching vintage asylum photos of the 19th-20th century.

Get ready to sympathise the torture…

OHIO INSANE ASYLUM IN 1946

ATHENS LUNATIC ASYLUM (The Ridges): Outline of the corpse of a woman called Margaret

Criteria For A Person To Be Admitted In An Asylum: Carefully look at the 10th and the 13th one.

As the picture mention: SELF HARM

Water Treatment To Calm A Patient

Materials removed from the stomach after being swallowed by a patient

WEST RIDING PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM(1869)

A ‘human’ desperate to come out…

A disturbingly meaningful wall art from an abandoned mental institution

Patient in an asylum wearing a restraining garment

A patient crying for help in the Asylum. Wonder who’s listening

Another patient having a hard time accepting ‘reality’

Nurses in an Asylum

The “Utica Crib,” a device meant to confine patients who might harm themselves or others

Trying to ‘peep’ inside you

This doesn’t need any explanation. A nurse trying to talk to a ‘mental patient’.