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Crazy/Old

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Vibrators, lithium, and guinea pigs. Writing about history, mental health, & the extremely weird history of mental healthcare.

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About Hanna Brooks Olsen

Plant eater/grower. Slow runner. One dog's weird human. Curious to a fault & prone to profanity. Co-host of Spotless, a podcast about cleaning. Also, I wrote a book about Victorian era sex work in the Pacific Northwest.

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