Posted by Christ_empowered on June 9, 2015, at 6:51:56
In reply to Re: in the early seventies in the USA, posted by LostBoyinNC46 on June 8, 2015, at 21:05:02
cool. I don't want one, lol. As is, I'm trying to lower my Abilify :-)
I just have this fascination with them...its like, the whole brain damage=effective therapy is still with us. I read that in psychiatry, the worse the side effects, the more shrinks will call it "effective." Ever notice that? Like TCAs are "effective for severe depression," Clozapine is "sometimes dangerous, but extremely effective," so on and so forth.
ECT is bad enough. I had involuntary shock...not court order or anything, just some horrible docs at a mental hospital, power trip...blasted back to the stone age. I'm just now recovering, and its been 7 years.
Also, lobotomies interest me because the patients' responses were so variable. Some...it rolled right off of them...others were destroyed, irreparably. Weird, huh?
Anyway, I sometimes wonder if state mental hospitals don't still do it. I mean, who would know? Who would care?
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