Madness of Mary Lincoln

[Gene C]

Do you have a reliable source for item 4, 5 & 6?

I can't picture Stanton giving Mary the gun. Robert maybe, but not to Mary in the state of grief she was in.

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From what I can understand from this book, Mary's treatment at Bellevue Place mainly consisted of keeping her in a controlled environment. A calm, quiet, peaceful environment away form the stress of the outside world. I don't see any mention of medication or therapy (I guess they did some kind of therapy back then?) Does anyone know more about her treatment?
It probably helped her for a while, until she felt more like a prisoner. From what I can understand, it doesn't seem like she mixed with the other patients. It also seems like her stay may have helped her gain some self control as she now knew that there could be unpleasant consequences for her more erratic and extreme paranoid behavior.

She certainly was a clever, determined, and maybe manipulative woman, as her stay at Bellevue only lasted 3-4 months before she engineered her release.