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100 Reasons to be Committed in the 19th Century



People were committed to Insane Asylums for a variety of mental¸ physical and social reasons. Whether they were committed to contain a disease¸ hide socially embarrassing condition¸ to gain an inheritance¸ end a marriage¸ hide an accusation or address a true mental disease or limitation¸ everyone was committed for a reason.

This list is intended for any 19th century to late 1920s campaigns (like Call of Cthulhu¸ Gangbusters¸ Pulp Hero¸ Justice Inc.¸ etc.) where social planning and psychology tried to address issues of sickness¸ poverty¸ and mental illness. This list can be applied to an inconvenient family member¸ an arrested criminal¸ a sick soldier¸ or an abused street urchin. Any entries with a "*" are intended for women only. This roleplaying tool is intended to provide more realism and a new dimension of empathy to people with experience in old time mental asylums.

This Roll Percentile list has one hundred possible results in this format:

Roll result: The reason for being committed (An explanation of what it means or a modern day equivalent)

Example 101: Morbid Curiosity (Unhealthy interest in dead bodies¸ taxidermy¸ graveyards¸ and funerals)


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