Section_31
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Well, my wife is ironically doing a paper on the treatment of mental illnesses in the earlier decades, from the 20's through the 70's. We took a tour in an old sanitorium which is now a museum to the subject...
J*sus chr*st!!!!!! i dont think im gonna sleep again!!!.
Some of the stuff they did to, well, "us", people with these issues, is horrifying. its one thing to read about it, to know about it, to maybe see it on tv, but to actually stand next to an electrical shock therapy unit that looks more like an electric chair is....well, it makes you think.
I got to see the area where lobotomies were performed as well. You could tell probably most, if not all, patients who had this done to them were unwilling, the restraints spoke more than anything else in the display.
It seemed more like an empty part of hell than anything else, and good lord, if i was back in those days, i would rather die then go there. I would probably provoke the cops into shooting me or somthing if i knew id end up there. I couldnt believe the kind of barbarism that we used to do as "treatments". Who the junk thought that shoving a metal rod into somebodys head was a good idea???. Im aware that someone had it happen as an accident sometime in the earlier 1800s (i think, i could be wrong on the year) and it changed his personality, and that started this line of thinking, but seriously!!!
Anyways, just my little rant. It was a humbling, and at the same time spooky experience, and im suddenly very thankful for my medication, if it werent for the invention of it, and more....humane treatments, i dont think any of us would know freedom. One of the pre-requisites for admittance was "socially avoiding tendencies" for some disorders.
crazy stuff!!!!
J*sus chr*st!!!!!! i dont think im gonna sleep again!!!.
Some of the stuff they did to, well, "us", people with these issues, is horrifying. its one thing to read about it, to know about it, to maybe see it on tv, but to actually stand next to an electrical shock therapy unit that looks more like an electric chair is....well, it makes you think.
I got to see the area where lobotomies were performed as well. You could tell probably most, if not all, patients who had this done to them were unwilling, the restraints spoke more than anything else in the display.
It seemed more like an empty part of hell than anything else, and good lord, if i was back in those days, i would rather die then go there. I would probably provoke the cops into shooting me or somthing if i knew id end up there. I couldnt believe the kind of barbarism that we used to do as "treatments". Who the junk thought that shoving a metal rod into somebodys head was a good idea???. Im aware that someone had it happen as an accident sometime in the earlier 1800s (i think, i could be wrong on the year) and it changed his personality, and that started this line of thinking, but seriously!!!
Anyways, just my little rant. It was a humbling, and at the same time spooky experience, and im suddenly very thankful for my medication, if it werent for the invention of it, and more....humane treatments, i dont think any of us would know freedom. One of the pre-requisites for admittance was "socially avoiding tendencies" for some disorders.
crazy stuff!!!!
