I used to see a psychiatrist, an old guy, and as I was sitting in his office one day, I started reading all the certificates he had hanging on the walls. One in particular really caught my eye. “Psychiatric Surgery”. I started to question that. He didn’t want to discuss it. The next time I came to see him, that particular certificate was gone. I thought that was interesting…
It’s true, I was trying to read the name of the “issuer” and I believe it was Dr. Freeman but I’m not 100% on that, it was a couple feet away from me on the wall, I would’ve had to stand up and look closely at it. But I didn’t, and next visit, it was gone from the wall. I’m 50 years old myself and this doctor was much older than me, definitely could have been from the 1950’s. Or 1960’s…
Interestingly enough, Dr. Walter Freeman himself didn’t even have certification and it doesn’t appear he ever handed out physical certifications. It was basically a damn free-for-all for the entirety of the time the lobotomy was in use. Some “pioneers” of the technique, like Dr. Freeman, would train other interested psychiatrists on their methods but it was so informal that they had no need for physical documentation. Hence why even Dr. Freeman himself didn’t have any documentation as to his credentials. That makes me wonder if your psychiatrist was a bit of a prankster. If not, he’s got a very rare artifact, because having paper documentation would’ve been rare at the time, let alone today. Though, I imagine it’s a bit like being a former Nazi. Nobody wants to admit to it long enough to turn over any of their historical artifacts.
My mother had a lobotomy 5 years before I was born in 1954. She actually functioned pretty well. Men always mentioned how “classy” she was, which I think meant, in the 1960s, a woman who had no opinions. I know that my friends would meet my mother once, seemed completely freaked out, and wouldn’t return to my house. I always knew something was wrong with how she acted, but of course couldn’t put my finger on it. We never had a conversation. She seemed to only be able to speak about one sentence at a time, then got overwhelmed. She also had one magazine that she read over and over for a span of about 20 years. That magazine was always around. It’s because her memory was so bad, the magazine was brand new every time she picked it up. She also never made eye contact with me. She’d focus on a spot just above my head. She was absolutely the definition of a hollow person, like there was nothing inside. She died about 20 years ago. I couldn’t describe her at all. I have no idea what she liked or didn’t like, what her opinions were, etc. Have no idea.
That’s such a sad thought, not knowing anything about what could’ve been your mom’s opinions or likes. It’s a shame so many people were robbed of their own self or worse.
I used to work in a nursing home, and one of the residents on my unit had a lobotomy when he was a 19yo college freshman; he was depressed because his mother had died. His procedure must have been done by an absolute butcher; he was unable to speak and he had to hold his eyelid open in order to see. Essentially he was robbed of everything his life could have been.
my great grandfather was given a lobotomy as "treatment" for his OCD, which left him completely unable to speak. even if this was unintentional, i think it's telling that medical professionals of the time preferred for mentally ill people to be silent rather than vocally in need of support
When I was a child in the late 60s and early 70s, my mother would speak in hushed, horrified tones about what happened at the nearest state mental hospitals. Transorbital lobotomies and shock treatments were some of those things and she told me to never tell anyone I was depressed or that might happen to me.
@@sillygo0oser I'm not sure that "empathy" is the right word. People can mean well and still do horrible things, out of what the doctors of that era seemed lacking in - humility. They played God, ignored ethical concerns and trampled personal boundaries, convinced that what they were doing was right, because they refused to think much about their own fallibility.
@@Astronomy_Videos Exactly. For all we know, most of those surgeons conducting the lobotomies really thought they were being helpful and caring. As time goes on, we'll find the same thing out about practices happening in this current age.
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I was recently in jail after a mental health crisis, instead of taking me to the hospital, they threw me in an 8×10 or so windowless concrete cell with a thin rubber layer over the walls and floor with just a blanket to lay on. Bright lights were on all day every day and the guards outside constantly played loud music or watched loud movies. I only slept for short naps when my body basically gave out. I lost all sense of time and after a few days of no sleep tried to bash my head into the wall. Their response to that was to handcuff my arms and legs to a chair and put me back in that room for another day or so. I was in there a total of 6 days before they sent me to a psychiatric hospital. I was told by the hospital that that was standard practice and actual part of how guards are trained to handle anyone who says they're suicidal in jail. They wouldn't even let me use the phone until I got to the hospital. When you're mentally ill in this society you lose all your rights, and it's just accepted as normal.
this is why i never tell anyone about my negative SH type thoughts. i feel like i have to beat around the bush when talking to my therapist when i do, but i have meds and theyre working but im always afraid if it gets worse ill have nowhere to turn because this is how they treat us, which sucks and makes it that much harder to change, let alone get help.
@@autohmae Definitely not any state here in Australia as he'd be proclaimed the saviour of the world with his powers!!!! Same as in New Zealand or Canada - all far left woke sess pools.
When you read about the horrors of the lobotomy you suddenly understand why so many people from that era dismissed psychology as bunk and why there is so much resistance to it across the world
that past is eerily similar to what doctors are doing to young people today. Transitioning kids and young adults, castrating them and removing body parts all because of a mental illness. The same horrors of the past mirror the horrors today. Wait and see how bad the 2010s and 2020s will be referred to as in the future. They will call us monsters like we call those doctors of the past monsters
@@renim2974 psychology is the only reason you have drugs and counseling instead of icepicks in people's brains... also before Freud and co., women were diagnosed with "traveling uterus" by the medical doctors who couldn't imagine hysteria (named after Greek word for uterus) being a mental issue.
The reason Howard Dully didn’t get sever injuries was because he got the lobotomy when he was 12. His brain and mainly his frontal cortex was far from being full developed. His brain was probably able to heal some of that damage much better than an adult could.
I think of April Burrell every single time the history of psychiatry is discussed. She was catatonic, diagnosed with psychosis, and admitted to a psychiatric facility for 20 yrs when a psychiatrist finally did bloodwork. They found that she has lupus. Lupus was treated and she woke from the catatonic state. This was in 2000. Not ancient history. Breaks my heart to think about how many Aprils there have been, how many there are right now.
There are sadly multiple people in this situation and others that are in similar situations in our psychiatric led institutions. Having worked in this area for 8 years the stories I could tell are horrific.
Yeah, I have terrible ptsd from psych ward experiences and the worst thing is I feel like I can’t talk about it with a therapist because I am afraid of not getting taken seriously.
@@tomhanson4008I can't speak for all, but most therapists I've talked to have been very sympathetic to my traumatic hospital stays. One even agreed with me on several points that I was making.
My final semester in college, I had a full blown psychotic episode and bipolar mania and i have never been more grateful to live in modern times where i could go to the ER, voluntarily go to a mental health crisis center, and get medication. Like it was a relatively quick diagnosis and medication was available that evening. I spent about 4 days adjusting to the medicine in the treatment center and drove myself home that sunday. I wish everyone could have had the same care i recieved, the nurses and doctors were amazing and they helped me get back to being myself again. I cant imagine what would have happened if I lived in another time or place.
College is very stressful and sometimes, that much stress can just cause us to break. It doesn’t mean we are permanently mentally ill or that we always need some type of medication for it. I feel like there can be many instances when medications should be stopped to see if the condition doesn’t require them anymore. I’m an RN, and have been for 27 years. I’ve had periods of severe grief after losing people very close to me, and periods of severe stress, like college or a divorce, when I required medication temporarily, and it was combined with counseling. I’m a strong person, but even the strongest person can only take so much. I even had a period where I had horrible panic attacks and couldn’t leave my house without feeling like I was going to die. My doctor tried Xanax and anti-depressants, but I was a hot mess and they didn’t help. I thought I was going to end up being an old lady who never left my house and hoarded cats 😂. Fortunately, a friend referred me to a holistic NP, who then had my neurotransmitters tested. Come to find out, the birth of my second child caused my Seratonin to drop into the basement, and after about 6 months on natural specific supplements, I was cured. I went off the anti-depressants and no longer had panic attacks. It’s been 22 years without panic attacks, but I have the greatest empathy for anyone suffering from them, because I can still vividly remember how absolutely horrible they were. I just wish more mental health practitioners would learn about natural remedies and do better testing. The tests I had required urine and saliva tests throughout the day, because a one time blood test cannot show the fluctuations, the peaks and troughs, of our neurotransmitter and hormone levels throughout the day. This is not regularly done in medicine, and it needs to be. Natural supplements don’t make Big Pharma any money, and BP owns the AMA, so they don’t allow physicians to learn other things besides prescribing their drugs.
@Marlin123 There was a guy who tried to self end with a g* n. The bllt didn’t end up having the desired effect, but it did end up curing his ocd. There was a point in my life where that sounded very appealing. Luckily I ended up on an snri med that helped. It didn’t fix me, but it also didn’t destroy my brain. Anyway, to my fellow ocd survivors, keep going.
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seeing everything listed as needing a lobotomy, including ADD which like half of everyone i know has... and knowing that the list is incomplete for what lobotomies were used on? glad we have modern medicine
He sounds like a full-on psychopath. Never let a patient’s health get in the way of a good paycheque. Apparently psychopaths are attracted to brain surgery and do remarkably well as they are able to remain calm under pressure.
@@mddperkins yeah they’re very common when looking at first responders, especially in OR, like you said, they keep their cool, but some also like the feeling of holding someone’s life in their hands
My great uncle was lobotomized. He had anger issues and was a big farm boy in Maine, which his parents couldn’t control. After his ‘procedure’ he spent the rest of his life in a hospital, where he would go on unsupervised walks every day, until winter when he stepped on some thin ice, and couldn’t make his way back through the ice. They found scratch marks underneath the ice. My mom always thought he was just messed up. She would draw a picture for him and he would just look at her, then look away slowly. Brutal.
I worked at a direct support worker during the pandemic in a group home of older individuals. My first day there I met a patient (let call him Sid, not his real name) who sat in a chair with a super hero T-shirt on. He was quiet, but very kind. He ended up contracting COVID just days after meeting him, and he was sent away to the hospital. At that time during the pandemic, only family members were allowed to visit. Sids family lived across the country, and he lived in that group home for decades apparently before I arrived. The staff had gotten very close to him, and one male staff took him under his wing and considered Sid practically family after working with him for over a decade. This was also the time during the pandemic where there was a shortage of ventilators, and those who refused care were taken off ventilation. Sid was terrified of hospitals, but no staff was allowed to stay with him. Sid refused care, and he ultimately passed a way from COVID. I learned after his passing why he was so afraid of hospitals, and also why he was in the group home. When Sid was a young man, for whatever reason I don’t know exactly, he was given a lobotomy. He lost his independence, his ability to carry a normal life, and ultimately robbed him of his life through the trauma created by the procedure itself. Sid lost his trust in the medical field, and any and all doctors. I think about Sid often, and how much love was in the words of my coworkers when they spoke about him. He loved comic books, and super heroes. Apparently he would be able to list every superhero he had ever came across in his life. He was deeply loved by the staff and residents alike. It was hard for some of residents to understand why Sid was gone, but others understood that he died. May he rest in peace.
A lot of elderly patients or those with mental illness were given VERY high doses of a certain medication mid az O lamb in order to “humanely” end them. This was done during covid in many countries
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I have Bipolar disorder 1. I live a good life. I run a regional train station alone, am in a long term relationship and have five beautiful children. I am lucky to live such a good life that I wouldn’t have been afforded decades ago. It horrifies me to consider what my life could have been in the past.
Five? That's crazy. Hope you still have time for yourself. But some people enjoy their kids selflessly so maybe you're one of these. Anyways, hope you're good.
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I took care of an elderly woman who'd had a lobotomy. She'd also had other, more experimental brain surgery. Her story was so sad. She was basically a shell of a person.
@@jeaniehammond40 It really is sad. She was only 14 when she was institutionalized, and she stayed in health care facilities for her entire life. From what I was told, she got lobotomized when she was a teen. She horrifically even had a baby while in one of said institutions. It is hard to believe how recently this barbaric BS was happening.
My uncle was diagnosed with a nervous breakdown in the late 1940s to early 1950s. The “cure” at that time was a lobotomy. The doctors told my grandparents to institutionalize him, my grandparents refused. He couldn’t speak words but mumbled. As he was in college to become and electrical engineer his days were spent drawing the things he’d been learning. He initially was put on Thorazine but after about 15 years my grandmother began giving him megadoses of vitamins and no medication. By the time he was in his 60s his brain began healing and he mowed the lawn and did chores. He even played tricks on my grandmother. He passed away on my birthday when he was 70.
Oh the note of the ice dunking: as someone with anxiety, stuff like this can help on a MUCH tamer level. Holding an ice cube in the palm of your hands, splashing cold water on your face, drinking ice cold water fast, that stuff can help. Hydrotherapy or whatever is definitely torture tho
I agree, but be careful drinking ice cold water too fast, the sudden intake of too much cold liquid can cause unconsciousness because it irritates the vagus nerve, it's quite common on hot days when people try to cool down too quickly
specifically cool water on face: there's something deep in the mammal bit of us that goes "found watering hole. safe and good." It's like a chemical-emotional reset button.
@@improbableopera793the explanation here is close. it’s called the dive reflex, it’s to help preserve oxygen when swimming in water but yeah it’s a mammal thing.
My mom discovered while researching our family that we had a relative in the late 1800s who was ~12 and a "difficult child" in school, so the school had the cops pick him up from their house and sent him to pennhurst. He died there shortly after that. Just crazy to believe stuff like that happened.
Thats awful!! I live somewhat near Pennhurst, me, my friends, and all the kids around like to go there during Halloween because it's supposedly haunted by the patients who died there. But actually hearing about a real child, a person, who was there and died wrongfully is just so sad. When I go back there I'll definitely be thinking about your relative!
@@pippascode481 thank you, that's nice that you'll be thinking of him. Unfortunately I have relatives on both sides who went to, and ultimately died at, pennhurst. Apparently there are quite a few buried on the grounds, but in order to get the remains you have to prove you're a descendant. Of course a 12yo has no children, so my mom has hit a roadblock there.
That's so incredibly tragic, that poor boy. Pennhurst was a building of pure misery and suffering, truly evil. I hope one day your family can successfully retrieve his remains, he doesn't deserve to rest where he was torturedn none of the parients do, rest their souls.
I’ve gone there and met ppl who said they used to work there and it supposedly “wasn’t as bad as the stories make it out to be” from a worker tho, not someone who was a patient, and was there later on in pennhursts run.
Ahh, the good old days, when those members of society that were contributing to behavioral and intellectual degradation across the civilization were removed from society, before they were able to cause damage.
I had brain tumor surgery when I was 48, seven years ago. I had an incision from ear to ear, then my skin was pulled down so they could cut out all my forehead (in an oval shape). It was a 10 hour surgery and I had to relearn how to walk and had (still have) balance issues. It's been a tough recovery and I still need my walking stick and can't walk much at all. Grateful to have lived through it and that none of these "therapies" happened to me..😱
I hope the tumor is completely gone. Make sure you are doing mobility exercises in your daily downtime. This is similar to what happened with my dad and the mobility stretches made a huge difference.
I have had two small brain tumors removed over the years. For me microdosing psilocybin has greately improved my cognitive abilities to a point where I feel the best I ever have been.
Holy crap, Julie! I've never heard of an entire forehead being cut out like that. I thought they always go in from the top/sides/back because of how thick the forehead is. That is an amazing story and I'm glad you made it. Was the tumor cancerous or no?
As a mother of a disabled 6 year old boy who would've either had this done or ended up in an asylum, this period of history breaks my heart. Parents trusting doctors saying its the best thing for them not knowing the horrors...ugh.
Psychologist here. It's not true that most people who got lobotomies ended up in vegetative states. That would have been considered a botched lobotomy like the one performed on rosemary kennedy. Most lobotomies were "successful" in the sense of making a person docile, obedient, and very unintelligent. That's what made the procedure so appealing to the point where over 50,000 procedures were done in such a short time. Most lobotomies were done on young "unruly" women basically turning them into overgrown toddlers so their families or husbands could have complete control over them. But they could still do simple tasks like laundry and cleaning a house, which is what men at the time felt was the place of a woman.
@@kreskin0079 Oh yes I know. Just last year I had a friend of a friend approach me asking about my work. Then he asked if I could "hypnotize people" and when I said yes, he asked if he could pay me to hypnotize his wife to be less intelligent and more docile towards him and less argumentative. I told him it was possible with enough sessions but would be unethical unless she knew what was going on. Then he lost interest because this was obviously for him and not her.
I don't think Rosemary Kennedy was really mentally ill, until after the lobotomy. She just wasn't acting like her father wanted her to. Or at least that's what I always thought, but I could be wrong for sure.
I made a comment expressing the sentiment. A biographer of Rosemary Kennedy's actually bothered to look through her archived notebooks and she was mostly fine. She did better, academically, after she was transferred to a school with different teaching methods ('30s-'40s Montessori). She was a middle 1 of 8 siblings, statistically, one of them will be more willful than the rest!
The reason Rosemary was mental ill was because when she was being born the doctor was not in the Kennedy home. So the nurse held Rosemany in for something like 90min causing lack of oxygen to the brain causing permanent brain damage
As someone with a form of epilepsy, this is actually so scary to think about. Cause imagine this: if I lived in that time period, this would’ve probably be done to me.
yea...I have both traditional epilepsy and NES's (non epileptic seizures) caused by other things. hearing about older procedures like this both fascinates and scares me ngl. i still wouldn't let anyone near my brain even with all the "improvements" science has made
We have a huge mental illness problem in this country today. In Tennessee, if you go to the ER with suicidal or mental concerns you can be locked in a room for several days. You stay there until space is available in a mental facility. This overwhelms a system that is already broken.
Electroconvulsive therapy ruined my memory. I mean, yeah you can't be traumatized if you don't remember your traumas, but you also need to remember things like your friends names and who you are hanging out with - which I had to be frequently reminded of during the time I was having ECT.
You still don't remember them? Or AS THEY TOLD YOU, you will have temporary memory loss. Do you feel better, or are you now latching onto temporary memory loss to be depressed?
@@dakawans83 BRUH HAVE SOME DECENCYY a person was severely depressed to the point of needing electroconvulsive therapy and you're just here saying these things to them
This is sort of what the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind deals with. It's wonderful to be able to forget the pain but what else goes with it?
I’m so sorry that happened to you dude. I’m really hoping it wasn’t forced on you. I take meds and I can’t remember basic conversations or who I was hanging out with either.
Walter Freeman’s assistant in brain surgery, James W. Watts, straight up left him after a couple of procedures because of how scared he was of what happened to the patients’ conditions afterward. If that doesn’t speak to the horrors of the lobotomy, I don’t know what will.
That's not true. Together, they developed the Freeman-Watts technique for prefrontal lobotomy, and completed over 200 procedures between about 1936-1945. In 1945, Freeman adapted the procedure, moving to the periorbital method. This is the procedure that disturbed Watts, and led to his decision to sever ties with Dr. Freeman.
“Why I have half a mind….” My wife’s grandmother had a lobotomy for an undefined mental issue, reportedly involving paranoid hallucinations. She was more or less functional, but very passive and almost non-existent conversationally
Which some men desired from their wives which is why so many "opinionated " women were victims of this procedure. I cannot imagine how much potential we've lost, loosing the life and light in their minds:(
01:40 There was no anesthesia used for this procedure. Patients were electroshocked several times till they lost consciousness. It was thought to "enhance" the procedure.
The lobotomy van was lovingly referred to by Freeman and Watson as their ‘lobotomobile’, in which they’d travel around from state hospital to state hospital demonstrating the trans-orbital lobotomy to staff at each. Freeman became so overzealous that he’d have 10 patients lined up on gurneys, strapped down, and show how quickly each case could be performed, at times even performing macabre tricks like spinning around and doing one behind his back. Staff, including nurses in attendance, would run out of the operating theatre so they wouldn’t vomit in front of the other attendees. True story. As a RN myself, I’m shocked at how rudimentary the procedure was. Like, to perform nearly any procedure now, the provider needs to know exactly how many millimeters or centimeters are involved, likely done under radiology/imaging to ensure precision and safety… yet the lobotomy was done without any of that, with guidelines to just ‘tap’ through the posterior orbit to some approximate depth, then manipulate the leucotome X degrees to the left, then the right, etc… the lack of precision is among the most striking aspects to me- like completely reckless.
I’ve heard of the “Kennedy Curse” and after reading about what they did to Rosemary, I’m pretty sure they put the curse on themselves. She was a bright, young lady. Got good grades in school and was well liked. The only thing “wrong” with her is that she was an introvert, while the rest of her family were extroverts. Very tragic and sad. 😢
This video made me think about just how screwed I would be if I were born only half a century earlier, as an extremely emotional autistic person who also struggles with various other mental illnesses
Same! I'm disabled, as much as I love old values... how the people of the time treated non-fully able bodied people was just terrible! Lobotomies were done to even the mildest, this is truly wild. The 21st century has it's stupidity and bad decisions, but 70 years ago also had its fair share of problems. x.x
As an autistic woman who was fucked up enough to get picked out for examination... I feel this. I got misdiagnosed, and 0 help. I got fucked up a lot. And all I needed was psychoeducation and maybe medication. Unfortunately, I developed depression age 11. Beat it later in life somewhere in my 25ths. Unfortunately, it made my cognitive problems worse. The neglect, and depression have lasting effects worse than what I started with.
I've spent most of my 'teens in specialised education, focused primarily on teaching children with autism. I encountered all sorts of people there, from every corner of the Spectrum, as well as hailing from many different backgrounds. A not insignificant number had been institutionalised at some point in the past. Some of their stories were haunting, and the threat of potentially being forced into an institute should this not turn out successful (it really was the last hope before institutionalisation for many of us) instilled fear into most of us there. I am very glad the place was run by people who genuinely wanted to prevent that fate for their pupils no matter the cost, and were largely successful in their efforts. It's an unfortunately rare story, as even those who'd come from other, similar schools attested. I can't claim to be perfect today, but I know with absolute certainty institutionalisation would have destroyed me.
I used to work in special education with an autistic child under the age of 13. They had only become verbal at age 8 but had been making great progress. Their parents had them institutionalized :(
Also Rosemary’s father made the decision to have this done unilaterally (including from her mother) and either told family & friends nothing, or that she had “been put into a facility.” Rose Kennedy herself admitted that she didn’t see her daughter for 20 years after the lobotomy, but it doesn’t seem likely that she could’ve done much even if she had warning
There wasn’t much she could do. Joe Sr (may that man rot in the lowest pit of Hell) was also a serial cheater (among other lovely personality traits and behaviors) and at one point, Rose actually left him, but was told by her father “you can only forgive once”. Thus she stayed but chose to look the other way. I think Rose either suspected or she figured out what her husband had done. However, since he wouldn’t tell anyone about where Rosemary was and clearly didn’t respect his wife, he kept his mouth shut. Rose (knowing her husband pretty well by this point) just did what she had always done, knowing it was a lost cause.
A Childhood friend of mine had an accident where he was thrown from his moped and hit his head in a telephone pole. He was in a coma for a few weeks and when he woke up he was NOT the same person we knew. hes doing fine now, but hes still not the same guy we knew early on. total personality change from a brain injury
Apparently I’m not the same and don’t even speak the same after several concussions and TBIs. I’ve had a shit ton of therapy and I’m somewhat “back”, but I’m a lot more introverted and a loaner now. At least that’s all I can tell. If you ask family and friends you’d probably get a different answer.
yall my personality shifts constantly imagine those social butterflies they can switch personalities instantly mime similar except its RANDOM sometimes im silly and funny someones im absolutely insane like i seriously think people think im clinically insane sometimes and other times im just chilling at home, life gud, i dont wanna talk, just chillin then theres the fourth one the fourth one is just the literal enbodyment of envy i see somethint i like, i get jealous of someone who has the ability to get it, and then i try to attack them ._.
My great grandmother had one. She was always happy and completely in her own world and acted very childish and innocent. The last thing I remember ( I was 12) was a christmas where somebody bought her a pack of smokes. She smoked all of them during the party and thew up in the sink.
I mean, I've never had a lobotomy but I've smoked an entire pack of cigs while drinking at a party.. (not good, I know. Alcohol makes smokers smoke more for some reason)
@@StrangeScaryNewEngland Well, alcohol is a depressant, so it probably makes nicotine (a stimulant) less effective, thus needing to smoke more to get the same effect. And combining stimulants with depressants is really stressful for the body
This is one of the craziest historical stories I have ever heard. Poor Rosemary she sounded like a cool person before the lobotomy - like any teen girl with creativity, emotions and personality.
Kudos for not lining up a Better Help sponsorship for this one! Edit: Just to clarify, it's not something I'd expect from Joe, but I feel like I see it often enough from other creators to mention my anxiety when he was winding up the Nebula read!
NGL I got to see a betterhelp therapist a couple times through a work program. I was thoroughly impressed with the treatment I got. Only reason I quit going was that I left that job.
@@Paperbatvgchampion there are good therapists on there for sure (I used to see one as well). The big issue is that the company was selling patient data.
my great grandfather was temporarily involuntarily committed in san francisco because he was becoming increasingly violent and having halucinaions (according to the hospital records ive found, dont know the whole story as my family never talked about it ever). turns out he was a druggist (what we call pharmaciss today), and unfortunately back in the ;ate 1800s there were zero safety procedures to keep guys like him safe from the chemicals and fumes involved in making pharmaceuticals and it was common for people in that profession to have mental issues
I learned about this because Axl Rose mentioned in an interview in the 1980s that he was “manic depressive” (now Bipolar 1) and lived in fear of doctors “jamming an ice pick into his eye.” So I looked that up. 😨😱😬 Nasty business. Very glad they stopped doing that. Especially now that I know I also have Bipolar disorder.
Nobody's bipolar, but my son is extreme ADHD, my wife has agoraphobia/hyperactive anxiety/occasional depression, my nephew is autistic and my half-brother is on the spectrum ("Asperger's" - can't hold a job, can't hold a relationship, barely graduated high school, is 26 but acts 18). It's a really big issue in my family. At least 1 or 2 of them would have been lobotomy candidates 😢
@@nenerosey From his wording and punctuation, he said nobody in his family is bipolar. As for Asperger's being "outdated" Yes, because using specific terminology for specific sets of issues became unfashionable. Using wide-open, non-specific terms makes it way easier for everyone to jump on the bandwagon and have an 'ism' to wash away responsibility for things like bad or lazy parenting.
I'm happy you brought that up in the video it really was the treatment of rebellious people who did not fit societal norms because Rosemary Kennedy she was a wild child but also the favorite sister of JFK.
I mean, have you not had interactions with people online, where you would consider such to be a success and a positive contribution to "Life, The Universe and Everything"?
Same thing with "anti depressants". They literally have the side effects of possibly making someone more depressed, but also the side effects of feeling nothing at all any more. So that's considered an effective treatment. ADHD, just take a kid who hates being sat in school all day and wants to be doing something more interesting, and just destroy their energy levels by dampening them with drugs. Person thinks theres something wrong with their body, in certain cases it's considered valid treatment to make futile attempts to change their body to fit their beliefs. Psychology and medicine is still very much a joke in how they consider certain things to be a success or not.
@@ChrispyNut no because i'm not a psychopath and can understand that even if someone says some horrible stuff online, blocking them is an easy enough procedure that putting them into a vegetative state is unneeded, unwarranted and a completely nuts response to "mean words on screen"
I remember watching a tv documentary on this whole thing once. Many lobotomies were performed on children who had no real issues but didn’t behave as their parents wanted. Often abusive parents or the children had undergone some trauma or upheaval. One man the interviewed had one done after his father remarried right after his mothers death and his step mother wanted a zombie child. They scanned his brain and found that he had damaged similar to that if someone after a major stroke or years of dementia. The lobotomy would have made any issues he had much worse.
Sad fact: lobotomy was only definitively banned here where I live in the mid-2000s. Until then, it could still be performed with state permission under the name "psychosurgery," with many clandestine cases. I have a friend who, in his teenage years (1998), was recommended for a lobotomy to treat his "personality disorder." He didn’t go through with it, finding it far too aggressive.
I began my career as a medical regulator in the late 1970s. Even then, many very reputable doctors thought of epilepsy as a mental illness. We had spent the prior 20 years closing all the long term mental hospitals, the same hospitals many are now demanding be reopened. Aside from better drugs, we really haven't progressed much. Last week I had the good fortune to talk to a highly respected clinical psychologist, who told me about advances in the last few years (which I'm really surprised Joe didn't mention). He described physical changes that occur in the brain as psychotic diseases progress, impairing cognitive abilities and worsening psychotic symptoms. With sophisticated testing they are beginning to detect psychoses in much younger patients, and institute therapies that slow or stop those brain changes.
Maybe Joe can get into some of that in a future episode. I didn't know about the continuing changes as a patient is psychotic for longer. I do remember that, as a teenager, parents could no longer institutionalize an uncooperative teen easily but it still happened. A psychology teacher in high school (70s) talked about it and made everyone write down the ACLU number to call if they were arrested and that seemed to be the next step. (You know, back when most of us could remember a dozen phone numbers.)
@@kitefan1 I hope Joe does do more on this. I retired two years ago. I was fairly expert at addressing substance use disorders in professionals, but I was never trained to deal with psychotic disorders. I recently stumbled across a TH-cam short from a woman called SchizoKitzo, and felt like my eyes were opened for the first time. My "broad" exposure to psychotic disorders was really incredibly limited, and I've learned more about people with psychoses just watching TH-cam videos in the last two months than I gained in my entire career. For the first time I view them as real people. I could have been much more competent if I'd had this experience 40 years ago. I've already talked to my old agency's investigators about training they might consider for them and agency lawyers.
Being someone born in the mid 50’s I had never heard of such a thing as a Prefrontal Lobotomy in my life until my son and I went on a motorcycle ride south from around Pittsburgh Pennsylvania about 10 years ago to a now closed place called the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. WOW, what an eye opening experience! It is now a National Historical Landmark and open for tours. Among many of the interesting parts of the building is the Lobotomy operating room where many lobotomies were performed and a lot of the original “tools” and equipment are still there to be viewed. Talk about being creeped out! There are also many other “treatment” rooms there, some of the ones you mentioned Joe. Among all the bizarre things they did there was something told to us by one of the tour guides. Back then a man that was tired of his wife could just drop her off at the front door, tell them that she was mentally ill, and never see her again.
I may have heard of a lobotomy, but did not really appreciate what it was until near the end of the 1982 biopic, Frances, about the life of actress Frances Farmer, played by Jessica Lange. Farmer was not mentally ill.
This era gives me the chills. I remember seeing a documentary where they said door to door salesmen would offer them in the comfort of home if you had an unruly family member. And my mom squinted and said "if it's that easy im sure I could do it myself...." and then stared ominously at me 😒
@@nevergiveup5939 Q; Why are we here in this life.? A; Chemistry. Q; Why do we die.? A; Chemistry. Q; What happens to us after death.? Guess what...... A; Oh, it's chemistry. Again.
19:35 omg i was listening to this as i was doing something else, and for 1 terrifying moment, I thought you were about to segway into a betterhelp sponsor 😂
Agreed, those “best of intentions” excluded the individual’s wellbeing, all consideration was for the “collective interests” of a highly authoritarian, conformist society. Irregardless of if there was or wasn’t a real medical issue (as plenty had nothing medically wrong with them), these treatments were never about improving the patient’s life, it was always about providing other people (the parents and/or a spouse) an “improved” version of the patient that can be properly controlled by other people. Conformity was so important they’d rather someone exist in a vegetive state in an asylum for the rest of their lives than be a fully realised individual who rejects societal norms. Women in particular who didn’t submit to their predetermined role in society were frequent victims of forced institutionalisation and/or lobotomies. Additionally, rather than trying to help someone genuinely suffering from a mental illness, all the sympathy went to the family and all treatment was about lessening the impact the mental illness and/or neurodivergence was having on them, not the individual suffering from it. Consequently, the wellbeing of the patient was sacrificed for the wellbeing of everyone else.
Yesterday's lobotomy is today's sex-change surgery. We're not doing lobotomies, but we're doing something just as destructive and irreversible. And, like lobotomies, a minority of the masses are brainwashed into believing it's a good thing.
agreed, it was difficult to listen to the types of what was essentially torture described, and believe that the people doing it had "the best intentions" in mind.
As the old meme goes ... Being an old-timey doctor would rule, just drunk as hell like “yeah u got ghosts in your blood, you should do cocaine about it”
I remember a story my grandmother told me about the doctor who delivered her. This was 1931, in a very small town. Apparently he was so drunk that when he delivered her, he didn’t know what day or time it was so her birthdate is wrong on her birth certificate. He was paid for his services with a sack of potatoes.
Medicine has always existed. Quackery has always existed. The "puritans" were highly fanatical and reshaped american medicine into total nonsense. Americans, and to a lesser exent westerners, have a tremendous affinity for 'quick fixes' that purport to be mechanistic in a clearly explainable way. Lobotomies were invented in the 50s, yet the earliest evidence of brain surgery is in skulls from tens of thousands of years ago.
it's important to note re: ancient understandings of the "soul" that for much of history, "soul" meant what we would term "mind." that's the origin of the word "psychology", the greek "psyche" meant "soul." in that way, the ancients did understand that you can be ill or deficient in "soul," just as you could be ill in body. only later did "soul" come to have some spiritual, metaphysical meaning (closer to the ancient concept of 'breath' or 'pneuma', I think?)
There are two people that do believe that there is a separation of soul versus spirit, but they also see that you’re a mental health, your spiritual well-being, and your physical health have no dichotomy. It doesn’t mean, however, that they believe that there are demons because of emotional issues. I believe a lot of people that I know that have this viewpoint see it as there are issues in all illness, spiritually in the sense that there is evil in the world however, science is here, and we should use it to the best of our ability to treat the issues separately because Mind cannot get better if body is not well and body cannot get better if mind is not well, and if neither are well, the spirit cannot be well in the end. So I will say that there is still a few point in the world from for example Eastern Europe religious Fair in the orthodox church that still associate all parts of the body or whole person/being as one thing completely… I’m trying to explain this more eloquently… I’m writing really late so please forgive me. I hope this makes sense.
There are people that do believe that there is a separation of soul versus spirit, but they also see that you’re a mental health, your spiritual well-being, and your physical health have no dichotomy. It doesn’t mean, however, that they believe that there are demons because of emotional issues. I believe a lot of people that I know that have this viewpoint see it as there are issues in all illness, spiritually in the sense that there is evil in the world however, science is here, and we should use it to the best of our ability to treat the issues separately because Mind cannot get better if body is not well and body cannot get better if mind is not well, and if neither are well, the spirit cannot be well in the end. So I will say that there is still a few point in the world from for example Eastern Europe religious Fair in the orthodox church that still associate all parts of the body or whole person/being as one thing completely… I’m trying to explain this more eloquently… I’m writing really late so please forgive me. I hope this makes sense.
Nah, ancient Egyptians literally had many parts of the soul, some physical, some spiritual, you're just trying to project your western view on everything.
Hey! as someone who has undergone two rounds of ECT, let me tell you that stuff is no fun! A round has minimum 12 sessions. during each session you go into the hospital and they get you on a bed so they can put in an iv. after that you get rolled to either the waiting room/line or just into the OR. in there they put a bunch of electrodes all around your head. then they ask if you're ready and a nurse counts down from 10, usually you're out by 7. from there they run large amounts of electricity through your brain to destroy certain pathways and areas. this induces a very large seizure as well. after some time you wake up in a recovery room, which is usually as dimly lit as possible and in a super quiet part of the hospital. after several hours of recovery you get a juice box and maybe a snack. eventually you get to leave. in my case most of the time this meant going back to the psych ward until i was deemed safe enough to leave. then i would just be taken home by my parents. when they first started i went up to 3 times a week. once it was nearing the end and i was able to go home, it eventually was just once a week. my body has never fully recovered. i have a new fear of hospitals. and i'm pretty sure it didn't even solve the problems they were trying to fix. i was depressed and sewer slide ready both before and after the treatments, just learned to control my impulses due to constant therapy. and not my musculature system is super fucked and is gonna take years of PT to fix alongside some awful tremors and a bunch of new fears. hopefully this can be a warning to some of you who may have family in situations like i was in. dont chose the ECT if you're given the choice
How awful. I'm glad you are able to function somewhat and understand/express what's happening. Please, please be sure you've "covered all the bases" for any nutritional causes or treatments. Please look into gluten and dairy intolerance, possible exposure to toxins like mold or heavy metals (there are so many possibilities), and vitamin deficiencies, perhaps starting with D, magnesium, and B12. There are documentaries and educational videos about all of these topics on TH-cam. Don't just go on the first 1-2, but watch at least a dozen by different people with different approaches, until something starts to make sense. My personal belief is that since the brain is part of the body, we should assume it's a physical problem like every other illness or condition, rather than treat the brain as something special we can't quite understand. It's an organ, right? The chemical imbalance theory has never been proven (and in fact has probably been disproven in many ways), and the last thing I read or heard was that now they don't think it's about serotonin either. I couldn't remember where I saw that, so I did a quick search and anyone can do the same, but here's a snippet from a website called The Conversation. Someone could look up the article by its title. I have become passionate about knowing the truth about depression not only because I have it (moderately) and have been able to reverse it with things like B vitamins, vitamin D, magnesium, and a gluten-free diet, but because I've seen too many friends who go on medication and either aren't helped or are made worse. Please be your own advocate and become an expert on your own problems! Doctors don't really have time to keep up with the latest research, and they aren't trained in nutrition. I wish you ALL THE BEST!! ----------- Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain - new study Published: July 20, 2022 1:12am EDT Updated: July 21, 2022 6:32am EDT For three decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a “chemical imbalance” in the brain - namely an imbalance of a brain chemical called serotonin. However, our latest research review shows that the evidence does not support it. Although first proposed in the 1960s, the serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted by the pharmaceutical industry in the 1990s in association with its efforts to market a new range of antidepressants, known as selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs. The idea was also endorsed by official institutions such as the American Psychiatric Association, which still tells the public that “differences in certain chemicals in the brain may contribute to symptoms of depression”. Countless doctors have repeated the message all over the world, in their private surgeries and in the media. People accepted what they were told. And many started taking antidepressants because they believed they had something wrong with their brain that required an antidepressant to put right. In the period of this marketing push, antidepressant use climbed dramatically, and they are now prescribed to one in six of the adult population in England, for example. For a long time, certain academics, including some leading psychiatrists, have suggested that there is no satisfactory evidence to support the idea that depression is a result of abnormally low or inactive serotonin. Others continue to endorse the theory. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive review of the research on serotonin and depression that could enable firm conclusions either way. At first sight, the fact that SSRI-type antidepressants act on the serotonin system appears to support the serotonin theory of depression. SSRIs temporarily increase the availability of serotonin in the brain, but this does not necessarily imply that depression is caused by the opposite of this effect. There are other explanations for antidepressants’ effects. In fact, drug trials show that antidepressants are barely distinguishable from a placebo (dummy pill) when it comes to treating depression. Also, antidepressants appear to have a generalised emotion-numbing effect which may influence people’s moods, although we do not know how this effect is produced or much about it. (etc.)
I did 3 months of ECT twice a week. I had some brief hypomania after a couple sessions, but for the most part I came out feeling exactly the same, and seemingly no memory issues. I was so comfortable with the procedure that I started waving bye bye to the staff just b4 the anaesthesia put me out. I don't say this to discredit or downplay your experience, but rather point out that it's a very different experience for everyone and as far as I'm aware has the highest odds of recovery out of any other treatment for people with major depression and gives people who've tried therapy and medications a last resort that actually has a chance of helping them where nothing else would.
I almost had to do ECT bc no medication was treating my mental health well at all. luckily i finally found a combination that worked for me when I was around 20 so I didnt have to, but it was very close bc i feel like i had tried every medication on earth. it turns out the medication that works for me isnt allowed for people under 18!
Early in my career in mental health, I worked in a "congregate care facility"--a mental health nursing home in basic English--and saw the results of this sickening procedure. It was about 20 years later and so these patients were in their 40s and up. Some just stared off into a non-existent distance; some slobbered and needed close care; some simply repeated numbers over and over. One was adept at dates, a savant I suppose, and his chart showed he didn't have or at least didn't share this skill before the lobotomy. Asked what day Christmas fell on in 1283, he took very little time in responding. Otherwise, he was a sad, lonely 50-year-old man. His mother had okayed the surgery because he was "getting out of control" when he was grounded, or limited in where and when he could go somewhere, or she demanded things of him such as doing jobs she usually did around the house. He was 15 years old.
I’m glad you brought up brain stimulation therapy, I have done rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation) and it helped me a lot! Although I don’t think it should be put beside ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) because rTMS has a lot less side effects, it takes less time and I believe it to be far better than ECT.
I am so so so grateful that your Segway at the end did not turn out to be an advertisement for a certain mental health counseling/personal data collecting website.
The part that Ive always struggled with here, is especially after psychopharmacological treatments were available, how could he look at what the surgery did to people and still think "I'm helping". Did he really believe that? Did he care more about his reputation than the patients? Or was it that facing the number of lives he destroyed was too much?
You have to understand that there's a type of person out there who just habitually dehumanizes others. And that kind of person is actually way more likely to end up in a position of power than average.
You think they cared about "helping"? Which part of "His name was immortalized in the medical history and he was ecstatic about all the rewards he got, he bought a van to permanently disable children by mushing their brains, and offering it to people who had wives that argued with them once" did you miss?
Trepination was used to relieve pressure from within the skull which was generally a symptom of swelling and excess fluid due to, say, cranial injuries and the like. This was a solution devised in the Neolithic era because people getting their brains bruised by big rocks or clubs hitting the skull and was kind of used for headaches in general since the actual reasoning for why it helped was not understood.
In the 50s my aunt was put in a mental hospital and given horrific ( more than 50) amounts of shock therapy. I dont know who gave the ok for it, but when i saw her as a young person, i was traumatized by what i saw. She shook uncontrolably non stop. She was not able to talk normally. That experience affected me my whole childhood into adulthood. Ifeared that i would go crazy too. I went into therapy in my mid 20s to help me understand what i saw and to make certain it would never happen to me. My aunt was eventually released from the hospital and the rest of her life was good. She no longer shook. She lived into her 80s.the reason for her treatment was that when her husband, who was a pedophile divorced her, leaving her with 7 children and no money and suicidal. They were trying to prevent her commiting suicide. She died of cancer. I became close to her when she was living alone and past her trauma.
My great aunt was lobotomized in the 50's in Northern Ontario on account of her depression. After the surgery she became the only depressed person for 1500km to have a strong southern drawl lol
I'm curious to see if, as we develop and better understand AI, we see computational parallels to mental illness, and if tackling those challenges might lead to better mental health solutions in humans.
I'm guessing that lopping off people's genitals or breasts and giving them opposite gender hormones because they "feel" like they're the wrong gender, will be top of the list. Especially when done to minors who are easily influenced by social media, peer pressure, etc. Sickening.
I am a retired RN geriatric psychistric clinician. I cared for a two elderly psychiatric hospital patients back in the late 90s who had been given lobotomies. Both were combative and resistant to care, but one was much more combative than the other. It was sad.
As someone who was diagnosed with autism I'm glad I didn't get a lobotomy but I still suffered; I got diagnosed when I was 10 and then was subjected to ABA therapy when I was 12, every wednesday I had to meet with my psychologist, I went from being a happy child who most people got on with, I even had a girlfriend and it turned me into a paranoid anxious wreck. After that I ended up with anger issues and the solution to that was risperidone, these drugs are awful, don't try to say that it's humane. I ended up as a young teenager losing my sex drive and in the end I ended up completely isolated from that girl and my friends as well. As an adult I've struggled from drug and alcohol abuse because of it. Things today are still messed up.
@@vulcanfeline Kind of. I'm eccentric but most people generally like me, the therapy I had to endure back when I was a teenager was about hiding my personality from other people, it was drilled into me that people wouldn't like me if I didn't; in actual fact people did like me but after being subjected to ABA for about 5 years I was left a broken wreck and I have trust issues to this day because of it. I don't exactly know if therapy is better for people today but I know several autistic people my age and we all have scars from it.
@@metalcascade4634 from my autistic experience, masking like that doesn't work in the long term. tbh, idk what would work but that aba sounds horrible /hugz ps) i found a supportive community on a channel called "i have autism, now what"
I think you should know that I can hear a clock ticking in the background of the video. It's not super disturbing, but it's probably driving someone out there mad.
FINALLY! The opening music doesnt scare all of the unprepared people, pets and several plants in my neighborhood. Give the guy who normalized the volume (or kicked off the process) a raise!
I once googled if I could get a lobotomy once... My mental was in a very dark place and I didn't feel like the doctors were listening too me, I was having panic attacks at seemingly random moments and dry heaving in the mornings. I was in a constant state of anxiety for literal years, it's kinda sad that I even googled that kind of thing it goes to show how terrible we are at handling mental issues.
We're still largely in the dark ages of mental illness treatment. Talk therapy and its offshoots like DBT are the most precise and refined treatments we have. Different medicines help some people and not others, and the only way to tell if it will help, hurt or do nothing is to try. Like lobotomies, it's akin to hitting a broken machine with a hammer with very little understanding of how the machine works. Medicines are just a more gentle hammer that's more likely to help. Maybe one day we'll have scans that can tell just what's going wrong and where. Then we might stand a chance of correcting things reliably with medicine or surgery.
@@TheSalami General anxiety disorder combined with insomnia, obsessive compulsive disorder and the autism spectrum. I probably have some type of trauma but nothing diagnosed because too me the doctors are pointless... They couldn't help me with my anxiety so there's no way they'd help me with trauma. I've been doing better simply by trying to be excessively positive in my thinking and that has helped a lot; whenever that negative voice comes too my head I tell it to go screw itself and I tell myself something positive instead and this has helped a lot
I have anxiety, am doing much better now. But the first doctor I went to tried to send me to an eating disorder ward. Thank the Gods the nurse in charge of the ward listened to me and refused to take me.
9:37 Using head injuries received during the World Wars, doctors were able to "map out" which parts of the body were covered by specific regions (which got damaged) of the brain.
My grandma's sister, so great aunt, was Lobotomized in 1950. It was an old family secret. She was "sent away" when she was 17, she was an unwed pregnant teenager. Somehow, that led to a brain surgery. My grandma raised the baby as her own, and great aunt was "never the same" and sent to a "state house". I never knew her, but my mom found out the truth when my grandma passed. My mom's big sister, wasn't her big sister.
This is super fascinating to me, as I have had a traumatic brain injury, with 2 bleeds on my brain. I know how much my injury has changed my personality.
I thought the myth of Rosemary Kennedy being intellectually disabled had long been dispelled by a biographer not too long ago. It was more likely that Rosemary was of AVERAGE intelligence among a family of hyper-intelligent people, thus deficient by comparison. Her archived notebooks show that her aptitudes weren't that far off, just not above average enough for expectations. It's my pet theory that she just wasn't self-repressive enough for her father's social image.
Bro stop a$s worshipping those billionaires. They're not rich because they're smart. They're smart because they can afford higher education. Also they're not above average level mathematics geniuses lmfao
@@samuelclemens6841 That's how that earlier generation regarded themselves. Again, I really need to find that one biography; Rosemary's mother was reported to have said that Rosemary "couldn't keep up" with the family dinner discussions. Obviously, I don't have a time machine to see if these dinner talks had intellectual rigor or if it was ivory tower nonsense. My interpretation is that Rosemary would have been the type more at ease talking about the latest celebrity gossip rather than commenting on sociopolitical issues.
She was also “difficult” (aka not a subservient young woman). I think that’s a huge factor as to why her parents decided to get her lobotomized, and why lobotomies were more prevalent in females instead of males.
I’ll keep it concise, but Joe… you and your team. This community. It is a big positive part of my life. Has been for a long time. I’m grateful and better off because of y’all. Thank you for being here all these years
New suscriber here! Let me say I love the way you narrate and edit the videos. It made me realized how fried my brain is with all the short-lenght (say reels or shorts) content. All the info just dropping like a bomb in less than a minute... this video is the opposite and really refreshing to watch
I've got ASD. Partner has ADHD. Both only diagnosed as adults. Both literally called "Ferral" in school (We're only 28...) among other things. Our 6yr old is ASD. Our 5yr old is ASD. And 3 is being closely monitored because he's definitely ADHD but too young to get officially diagnosed. My children were incredibly unsafe at school, to themselves and others. They're now home-ed so they can stay regulated properly, get tailored education etc. I know full well if we go back not so far, every single one of us would have been institutionalised before reaching double didgets. I almost was in my teens. Was told my son (Very bright, very capable when regulated. Just very aggressive and doesn't engage when overstimulated) might need residential care (Laughed at by professionals who saw him at home!). And this is now! He wouldn't have survived at any other point in history. It's terrifying. It will have me awake and crying some nights just thinking about how if we weren't lucky enough to have been born in a country seen as progressive, and in a time where we have more information, life could have been over so fast... Mental health history is the stuff of nightmares.
@@donovanchilton5817 first, none of your business. Second, disabled people have always been and always will be, there is no ethical way of getting rid of all disabilities and disorders. And we don't have to. People are perfectly capable of helping and taking care of each other. Passing on issues... Do you hear yourself? What do you propose we do?
If you think autism is an “issue” or that they have a worse life then you need to research autism. You have been misinformed. 1 in 52 births so you definitely know some who you don’t realize are autistic.
I have a son who is autistic and I think his dad is as well. I had a great great aunt who was eventually institutionalized. Census record ms suggest that she was likely autistic. I was horrified to learn that the hospital was known for sterilizing their patients so they could not have children and pass their “conditions” on. It made me cry thinking of what could have happened had my son been born in a different time.
14:42 PTSD is listed as one of the ailments that a lobotomy could cure, which piqued my curiosity, because I thought it was a more modern term. Indeed a quick browse of Wiki notes "Early in 1978, the diagnosis term "post-traumatic stress disorder" was first recommended in a working group...". Can anyone shed more light on when "PTSD" was first coined?
that poster has ADD on it too, which became a diagnoseable thing in 1980. I almost think it might be a subtle satirical reference, definitely from the after-lobotomy time.
The term "post-traumatic stress disorder" came into use in the 1970s, in large part due to the diagnoses of U.S. military veterans of the Vietnam War.[25] It was officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980 in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
So it seems like the poster shown is a spoof. But given the context in which it is shown, it's likely that whoever chose to include it, didn't realise that and took it at face value.
My step-dad was diagnosed with "Shell Shock" sometime in the late 60s/very early 70s but that diagnosis was updated to PTSD many decades later. He's now described as having been diagnosed with PTSD since around 1970 even though technically that is not true, when a condition changes names you aren't necessarily rediagnosed they just retcon the outdated one. If you were diagnosed with Aspergers in the 90s you're just described as having been diagnosed with autism since the 90s, etc. The condition of PTSD has been being diagnosed for a very very long time, the use of the new term is likely just a retcon of all the old terms for the same diagnosis.
I worked in an old Craftsman house or Victorian 20 some years ago. There was a hidden room in the attic space for what the owners were told held a "mongoloid" child. Humans are the worst. Thanks
I was born in 1948. I remember people talking about lobotomies a lot when I was kid in the 50's. Even as a kid it seemed to me to be a very blunt instrument.
My dad was a paranoid schizophrenic. He could be very violent. Fortunately he was diagnosed at a time when electro-shock therapy was the solution. Its effect on him was “interesting”. He was no longer violent as far as we could tell, but you could pick up an aura of extreme agitation when you talked to him.
As a Portuguese i am so sorry for all the suffering this procedure has caused. Still can not believe one of the biggest hospitals in lisbon is still named after him.
There is a film about Frances Farmer called Frances played by Jessica Lange about a woman (she was an actress in the 30s/40s ) who was very abused by the system & lobotomized in the film iirc. And of course everyone knows One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Nicholson. Be glad we now have addiction counseling & rehab centers & outpatient treatment & patient advocacy. Mental Health Services are still abysmal but no one will stick an ice pick in your eye (hopefully) My grandmother had her spine damaged from Electro Shock Therapy. She lived with chronic pain & depression for years until she finally offed herself by drinking bleach & taking an entire bottle of aspirin.
If I'd been born 30 years earlier I think I would have opted for the procedure. Not because I think it's humane, or in any way therapeutic. But simply because when my later diagnosis presented I would have done ANYTHING to get 'myself' back (whatever that meant), my parents would have too. They sold hope of a "cure". That is horrifying.
I always felt it was improper to attribute his behavioral changes to brain damage alone. I reckon anyone who has a meter of steel rod blasted through their skull would experience behavioral changes regardless of brain damage, shits traumatic. Left him disfigured and disabled, little more than a circus attraction. I'd be irritable too
Growing up I always heard the word asylum and always associated it negatively, so then I was confused when I learned that asylum was supposed to mean a place of safety. I now realize it's because I always associated asylum with mental asylums which were clearly not a place a safety
My grandma was diagnosed with manic depression (today called bipolar disorder) in the late 70’s so after the lobotomy craze. It scares me to death that she might’ve been given one had her symptoms started getting severe before Freeman was exposed as a dangerous quack.
Cool fact, I have Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and when I'm having a particularly hard day and my heart rate will not go down, it actually DOES help when I submerge my body in ice cold water.
Having a sister in law who suffers from very severe bi-polar disorder, with the violence, promiscuity and deficent personal hygiene that entails, I'm not surprised families would reach for any promising treatment at all. Right now, with the mental hospitals closed down for humanitarian reasons, this poor woman is so heavily sedated she is bed bound, unable to communicate or looking after even basic human functions, including hygiene and bathroom functions. And zero hope for any improvement. It's an unwinnable situation.
My ex worked with the de-institutionalization of people committed for issues ranging from fairly severe developmental disabilities to pregnancy. Not kidding on that last one. And deafness. I met one of her clients, a then 30 something man who had spent a couple decades in an institution because he was hard of hearing.
So I have serious epilepsy that is only controlled by strong controlled substances and I am so very aware of how close I am to surgery being the solution. I do love how modern medicine likes to act like it's so much better than before, and I don't wanna spit at it... I am not disabled from my disability. But epilepsy treatment has never been "successful" in the sense that we don't have to learn how to live with major side effects. Even the medicines are really hard to deal with. My current meds took close to 2 years to be able to function again. Epilepsy has always been a game of "this horrible thing is better than the alternative". Learning how to function again on two controlled substances (one is a benzo) was hard hard. Brain surgery is no walk in the park even with modern medicine
I used to see a psychiatrist, an old guy, and as I was sitting in his office one day, I started reading all the certificates he had hanging on the walls. One in particular really caught my eye. “Psychiatric Surgery”. I started to question that. He didn’t want to discuss it. The next time I came to see him, that particular certificate was gone. I thought that was interesting…
bruuuhhh i would've shite my pants😭😂🫂
Was it gone, or did they perform Psychiatric Surgery on you and you lost the ability to perceive the certificate?? 😱
It’s true, I was trying to read the name of the “issuer” and I believe it was Dr. Freeman but I’m not 100% on that, it was a couple feet away from me on the wall, I would’ve had to stand up and look closely at it. But I didn’t, and next visit, it was gone from the wall. I’m 50 years old myself and this doctor was much older than me, definitely could have been from the 1950’s. Or 1960’s…
i need you to stare right into the red blinking section of this pen
Interestingly enough, Dr. Walter Freeman himself didn’t even have certification and it doesn’t appear he ever handed out physical certifications. It was basically a damn free-for-all for the entirety of the time the lobotomy was in use. Some “pioneers” of the technique, like Dr. Freeman, would train other interested psychiatrists on their methods but it was so informal that they had no need for physical documentation. Hence why even Dr. Freeman himself didn’t have any documentation as to his credentials.
That makes me wonder if your psychiatrist was a bit of a prankster. If not, he’s got a very rare artifact, because having paper documentation would’ve been rare at the time, let alone today. Though, I imagine it’s a bit like being a former Nazi. Nobody wants to admit to it long enough to turn over any of their historical artifacts.
My mother had a lobotomy 5 years before I was born in 1954. She actually functioned pretty well. Men always mentioned how “classy” she was, which I think meant, in the 1960s, a woman who had no opinions. I know that my friends would meet my mother once, seemed completely freaked out, and wouldn’t return to my house. I always knew something was wrong with how she acted, but of course couldn’t put my finger on it. We never had a conversation. She seemed to only be able to speak about one sentence at a time, then got overwhelmed. She also had one magazine that she read over and over for a span of about 20 years. That magazine was always around. It’s because her memory was so bad, the magazine was brand new every time she picked it up. She also never made eye contact with me. She’d focus on a spot just above my head. She was absolutely the definition of a hollow person, like there was nothing inside. She died about 20 years ago. I couldn’t describe her at all. I have no idea what she liked or didn’t like, what her opinions were, etc. Have no idea.
that is really fascinating to hear how people have changed due to it.
That’s such a sad thought, not knowing anything about what could’ve been your mom’s opinions or likes. It’s a shame so many people were robbed of their own self or worse.
I always found Lobotomies to be an upsetting thought, but somehow this is more upsetting than that
Your poor mum 😔
May I ask, how did your father, siblings or other family members experienced this?
I used to work in a nursing home, and one of the residents on my unit had a lobotomy when he was a 19yo college freshman; he was depressed because his mother had died. His procedure must have been done by an absolute butcher; he was unable to speak and he had to hold his eyelid open in order to see. Essentially he was robbed of everything his life could have been.
You cry at your mother’s death and you get lobotomised, you don’t cry at your mother’s death and you get executed
Heartbreaking 😢
Horrifying and criminal!
No. No no no no
That poor man, I hope he’s at peace now
my great grandfather was given a lobotomy as "treatment" for his OCD, which left him completely unable to speak. even if this was unintentional, i think it's telling that medical professionals of the time preferred for mentally ill people to be silent rather than vocally in need of support
True, they were just silenced
Did it get rid of his OCD? Probably not.
They must have all gone to the Milford Academy. There slogan is "children should be neither seen nor heard" 😂. Good old, Arrested Development.
When I was a child in the late 60s and early 70s, my mother would speak in hushed, horrified tones about what happened at the nearest state mental hospitals. Transorbital lobotomies and shock treatments were some of those things and she told me to never tell anyone I was depressed or that might happen to me.
Wow no wonder the older generations are so adverse to mental health treatment. Professionals back then jad no empathy for their patients 😢
@@sillygo0oser I'm not sure that "empathy" is the right word. People can mean well and still do horrible things, out of what the doctors of that era seemed lacking in - humility. They played God, ignored ethical concerns and trampled personal boundaries, convinced that what they were doing was right, because they refused to think much about their own fallibility.
@@Astronomy_Videos Exactly. For all we know, most of those surgeons conducting the lobotomies really thought they were being helpful and caring. As time goes on, we'll find the same thing out about practices happening in this current age.
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16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
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15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
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This kinda makes sense as to why the older generation sees mental health as taboo
I was recently in jail after a mental health crisis, instead of taking me to the hospital, they threw me in an 8×10 or so windowless concrete cell with a thin rubber layer over the walls and floor with just a blanket to lay on.
Bright lights were on all day every day and the guards outside constantly played loud music or watched loud movies. I only slept for short naps when my body basically gave out. I lost all sense of time and after a few days of no sleep tried to bash my head into the wall. Their response to that was to handcuff my arms and legs to a chair and put me back in that room for another day or so. I was in there a total of 6 days before they sent me to a psychiatric hospital.
I was told by the hospital that that was standard practice and actual part of how guards are trained to handle anyone who says they're suicidal in jail. They wouldn't even let me use the phone until I got to the hospital. When you're mentally ill in this society you lose all your rights, and it's just accepted as normal.
euh... which society would that be ? The US ?
@@autohmae varies state by state, I'd be surprised if this isn't describing Florida though.
this is why i never tell anyone about my negative SH type thoughts.
i feel like i have to beat around the bush when talking to my therapist when i do, but i have meds and theyre working but im always afraid if it gets worse ill have nowhere to turn because this is how they treat us, which sucks and makes it that much harder to change, let alone get help.
@@autohmae Definitely not any state here in Australia as he'd be proclaimed the saviour of the world with his powers!!!! Same as in New Zealand or Canada - all far left woke sess pools.
Ya I would like to hear "society's side of the story" of why u got put in there lol. I bet it would change everyone's opinion here
“Difficult for her family to manage,” got a lot of women locked away and tortured.
Nowadays they just put them under conservatorship like my twin sister. She's not even allowed to use the internet.
Today Karen's just abuse everyone en masse
Not much better possibly worse tbh
@@nuclearcatbaby1131nowadays they make them teachers 😆
Just watched finished watching a fine doc on here called “Finding Lillian”.
Lock them away for being an embarrassment.
When you read about the horrors of the lobotomy you suddenly understand why so many people from that era dismissed psychology as bunk and why there is so much resistance to it across the world
that past is eerily similar to what doctors are doing to young people today. Transitioning kids and young adults, castrating them and removing body parts all because of a mental illness. The same horrors of the past mirror the horrors today. Wait and see how bad the 2010s and 2020s will be referred to as in the future. They will call us monsters like we call those doctors of the past monsters
It’s still bunk. There’s a lot of issues with Psychology research.
It is still a bunk tho
@@renim2974 a lot of it is bs. But some treatments DO help improve the lives of patients while giving them agency, unlike the mid 1900s
@@renim2974 psychology is the only reason you have drugs and counseling instead of icepicks in people's brains... also before Freud and co., women were diagnosed with "traveling uterus" by the medical doctors who couldn't imagine hysteria (named after Greek word for uterus) being a mental issue.
The reason Howard Dully didn’t get sever injuries was because he got the lobotomy when he was 12. His brain and mainly his frontal cortex was far from being full developed. His brain was probably able to heal some of that damage much better than an adult could.
VERY GOOD POINT!
Citation needed
True, but it changed him from being a thoughtful and sensitive boy into something much simpler and cruder.
That’s what I thought too…. So when his frontal lobe fully developed it essentially made up for the messed up nerves I guess
@@connorgoetjes6758 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dully
I think of April Burrell every single time the history of psychiatry is discussed. She was catatonic, diagnosed with psychosis, and admitted to a psychiatric facility for 20 yrs when a psychiatrist finally did bloodwork. They found that she has lupus. Lupus was treated and she woke from the catatonic state.
This was in 2000. Not ancient history. Breaks my heart to think about how many Aprils there have been, how many there are right now.
I remember her! I don’t remember the exact mechanism, but basically the lupus was causing her immune system to attack her brain. Just horrible. 😢
Also, see the movie Brain on Fire, with Chloe Grace Moretz and Carrie Anne Moss. How many suffered before understanding took hold?
There are sadly multiple people in this situation and others that are in similar situations in our psychiatric led institutions. Having worked in this area for 8 years the stories I could tell are horrific.
How could she have had lupus when it's never lupus?
@@DavidRYates-tk2tq Is that a House reference?
I have had horrific experiences in psych wards. To think that my experiences pale in comparison to the past is beyond disturbing.
Yeah, I have terrible ptsd from psych ward experiences and the worst thing is I feel like I can’t talk about it with a therapist because I am afraid of not getting taken seriously.
@@tomhanson4008I can't speak for all, but most therapists I've talked to have been very sympathetic to my traumatic hospital stays. One even agreed with me on several points that I was making.
For real.
@@tomhanson4008 Or worse, they’ll defend it and say it was for the best.
Went to psych ward involuntarily once. I genuinely had worse mental health when I left than when I went in
My final semester in college, I had a full blown psychotic episode and bipolar mania and i have never been more grateful to live in modern times where i could go to the ER, voluntarily go to a mental health crisis center, and get medication. Like it was a relatively quick diagnosis and medication was available that evening. I spent about 4 days adjusting to the medicine in the treatment center and drove myself home that sunday. I wish everyone could have had the same care i recieved, the nurses and doctors were amazing and they helped me get back to being myself again. I cant imagine what would have happened if I lived in another time or place.
College is very stressful and sometimes, that much stress can just cause us to break. It doesn’t mean we are permanently mentally ill or that we always need some type of medication for it. I feel like there can be many instances when medications should be stopped to see if the condition doesn’t require them anymore. I’m an RN, and have been for 27 years. I’ve had periods of severe grief after losing people very close to me, and periods of severe stress, like college or a divorce, when I required medication temporarily, and it was combined with counseling. I’m a strong person, but even the strongest person can only take so much. I even had a period where I had horrible panic attacks and couldn’t leave my house without feeling like I was going to die. My doctor tried Xanax and anti-depressants, but I was a hot mess and they didn’t help. I thought I was going to end up being an old lady who never left my house and hoarded cats 😂. Fortunately, a friend referred me to a holistic NP, who then had my neurotransmitters tested. Come to find out, the birth of my second child caused my Seratonin to drop into the basement, and after about 6 months on natural specific supplements, I was cured. I went off the anti-depressants and no longer had panic attacks. It’s been 22 years without panic attacks, but I have the greatest empathy for anyone suffering from them, because I can still vividly remember how absolutely horrible they were. I just wish more mental health practitioners would learn about natural remedies and do better testing. The tests I had required urine and saliva tests throughout the day, because a one time blood test cannot show the fluctuations, the peaks and troughs, of our neurotransmitter and hormone levels throughout the day. This is not regularly done in medicine, and it needs to be. Natural supplements don’t make Big Pharma any money, and BP owns the AMA, so they don’t allow physicians to learn other things besides prescribing their drugs.
I have OCD. Seeing the graphic that recommended lobotomies as a cure for OCD made my blood run cold.
What's most terrifying about this is that OCD is so spiritually draining and stressful that people might actually volounteer to get a lobotomy
@Marlin123 There was a guy who tried to self end with a g* n. The bllt didn’t end up having the desired effect, but it did end up curing his ocd. There was a point in my life where that sounded very appealing. Luckily I ended up on an snri med that helped. It didn’t fix me, but it also didn’t destroy my brain. Anyway, to my fellow ocd survivors, keep going.
Sorry for all the silly censorship TH-cam is garbage
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seeing everything listed as needing a lobotomy, including ADD which like half of everyone i know has... and knowing that the list is incomplete for what lobotomies were used on? glad we have modern medicine
I'm convinced the most insane person involved in this was Freeman himself. He was just smart enough to turn his insanity into a "medical procedure".
Yes . . .
Agreed 1000%...All shrinks are fucking nuts 🤪
He sounds like a full-on psychopath. Never let a patient’s health get in the way of a good paycheque.
Apparently psychopaths are attracted to brain surgery and do remarkably well as they are able to remain calm under pressure.
@@mddperkins yeah they’re very common when looking at first responders, especially in OR, like you said, they keep their cool, but some also like the feeling of holding someone’s life in their hands
Mad scientists had to start somewhere I guess
My great uncle was lobotomized. He had anger issues and was a big farm boy in Maine, which his parents couldn’t control. After his ‘procedure’ he spent the rest of his life in a hospital, where he would go on unsupervised walks every day, until winter when he stepped on some thin ice, and couldn’t make his way back through the ice. They found scratch marks underneath the ice. My mom always thought he was just messed up. She would draw a picture for him and he would just look at her, then look away slowly. Brutal.
what.
jesus christ
I’m so sorry he went through that and how it must have affected your family 💔
There isn’t enough words to describe how sorry I am. God.
I worked at a direct support worker during the pandemic in a group home of older individuals. My first day there I met a patient (let call him Sid, not his real name) who sat in a chair with a super hero T-shirt on. He was quiet, but very kind. He ended up contracting COVID just days after meeting him, and he was sent away to the hospital. At that time during the pandemic, only family members were allowed to visit. Sids family lived across the country, and he lived in that group home for decades apparently before I arrived. The staff had gotten very close to him, and one male staff took him under his wing and considered Sid practically family after working with him for over a decade. This was also the time during the pandemic where there was a shortage of ventilators, and those who refused care were taken off ventilation. Sid was terrified of hospitals, but no staff was allowed to stay with him. Sid refused care, and he ultimately passed a way from COVID. I learned after his passing why he was so afraid of hospitals, and also why he was in the group home. When Sid was a young man, for whatever reason I don’t know exactly, he was given a lobotomy. He lost his independence, his ability to carry a normal life, and ultimately robbed him of his life through the trauma created by the procedure itself. Sid lost his trust in the medical field, and any and all doctors. I think about Sid often, and how much love was in the words of my coworkers when they spoke about him. He loved comic books, and super heroes. Apparently he would be able to list every superhero he had ever came across in his life. He was deeply loved by the staff and residents alike. It was hard for some of residents to understand why Sid was gone, but others understood that he died. May he rest in peace.
A lot of elderly patients or those with mental illness were given VERY high doses of a certain medication mid az O lamb in order to “humanely” end them. This was done during covid in many countries
That hurt my heart. Thank you for sharing though. Sid sounds like he would be a hero if the circumstances were right.
It's literally like going into the source code and randomly deleting lines and blocks of code.
nah mate it's worse, it's taking out bits of hardware too.
Figuratively*
God created the codes
@@standalone2012 no
@@Mutantcy1992 Do you ever look at a painting and figure it created itself? Or buildings - that they just formed out of nothing, all on its own? Or that a computer just put itself together? No? Of course not. Something from nothing is silly. Creation begs for the explanation of a creator.
I have Bipolar disorder 1. I live a good life. I run a regional train station alone, am in a long term relationship and have five beautiful children. I am lucky to live such a good life that I wouldn’t have been afforded decades ago. It horrifies me to consider what my life could have been in the past.
Isn't it awesome what therapy and little magical pills can do these days? No more ice picks to the brain for us xD
Five? That's crazy. Hope you still have time for yourself. But some people enjoy their kids selflessly so maybe you're one of these. Anyways, hope you're good.
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But what has it cost our society? So much.
So much.
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I took care of an elderly woman who'd had a lobotomy. She'd also had other, more experimental brain surgery. Her story was so sad. She was basically a shell of a person.
So very sad, the medieval medicine then was barbaric.
@@jeaniehammond40 It really is sad. She was only 14 when she was institutionalized, and she stayed in health care facilities for her entire life. From what I was told, she got lobotomized when she was a teen. She horrifically even had a baby while in one of said institutions. It is hard to believe how recently this barbaric BS was happening.
@@anactualprayingmantis5054 that's messed up
Oh my, that’s awful! I pray for all victims of this awful procedure!
@jeaniehammond40 how exactly a procedure done in the 1950s medieval (time period between ~500-1500 AD)?
My uncle was diagnosed with a nervous breakdown in the late 1940s to early 1950s. The “cure” at that time was a lobotomy. The doctors told my grandparents to institutionalize him, my grandparents refused. He couldn’t speak words but mumbled. As he was in college to become and electrical engineer his days were spent drawing the things he’d been learning. He initially was put on Thorazine but after about 15 years my grandmother began giving him megadoses of vitamins and no medication. By the time he was in his 60s his brain began healing and he mowed the lawn and did chores. He even played tricks on my grandmother. He passed away on my birthday when he was 70.
Oh the note of the ice dunking: as someone with anxiety, stuff like this can help on a MUCH tamer level. Holding an ice cube in the palm of your hands, splashing cold water on your face, drinking ice cold water fast, that stuff can help. Hydrotherapy or whatever is definitely torture tho
I agree, but be careful drinking ice cold water too fast, the sudden intake of too much cold liquid can cause unconsciousness because it irritates the vagus nerve, it's quite common on hot days when people try to cool down too quickly
specifically cool water on face: there's something deep in the mammal bit of us that goes "found watering hole. safe and good." It's like a chemical-emotional reset button.
@@improbableopera793the explanation here is close. it’s called the dive reflex, it’s to help preserve oxygen when swimming in water but yeah it’s a mammal thing.
My mom discovered while researching our family that we had a relative in the late 1800s who was ~12 and a "difficult child" in school, so the school had the cops pick him up from their house and sent him to pennhurst. He died there shortly after that. Just crazy to believe stuff like that happened.
Thats awful!! I live somewhat near Pennhurst, me, my friends, and all the kids around like to go there during Halloween because it's supposedly haunted by the patients who died there. But actually hearing about a real child, a person, who was there and died wrongfully is just so sad. When I go back there I'll definitely be thinking about your relative!
@@pippascode481 thank you, that's nice that you'll be thinking of him. Unfortunately I have relatives on both sides who went to, and ultimately died at, pennhurst. Apparently there are quite a few buried on the grounds, but in order to get the remains you have to prove you're a descendant. Of course a 12yo has no children, so my mom has hit a roadblock there.
That's so incredibly tragic, that poor boy. Pennhurst was a building of pure misery and suffering, truly evil. I hope one day your family can successfully retrieve his remains, he doesn't deserve to rest where he was torturedn none of the parients do, rest their souls.
I’ve gone there and met ppl who said they used to work there and it supposedly “wasn’t as bad as the stories make it out to be” from a worker tho, not someone who was a patient, and was there later on in pennhursts run.
Ahh, the good old days, when those members of society that were contributing to behavioral and intellectual degradation across the civilization were removed from society, before they were able to cause damage.
I had brain tumor surgery when I was 48, seven years ago. I had an incision from ear to ear, then my skin was pulled down so they could cut out all my forehead (in an oval shape). It was a 10 hour surgery and I had to relearn how to walk and had (still have) balance issues. It's been a tough recovery and I still need my walking stick and can't walk much at all. Grateful to have lived through it and that none of these "therapies" happened to me..😱
Oof. Good luck with your continued recovery!
I hope the tumor is completely gone. Make sure you are doing mobility exercises in your daily downtime. This is similar to what happened with my dad and the mobility stretches made a huge difference.
I too had a brain tumor removed in 2012 at St. Anthony’s hospital. I still have bad balance, as well as forgetfulness. Plus, they put implants in me 😢
I have had two small brain tumors removed over the years. For me microdosing psilocybin has greately improved my cognitive abilities to a point where I feel the best I ever have been.
Holy crap, Julie! I've never heard of an entire forehead being cut out like that. I thought they always go in from the top/sides/back because of how thick the forehead is. That is an amazing story and I'm glad you made it. Was the tumor cancerous or no?
As a mother of a disabled 6 year old boy who would've either had this done or ended up in an asylum, this period of history breaks my heart. Parents trusting doctors saying its the best thing for them not knowing the horrors...ugh.
Psychologist here. It's not true that most people who got lobotomies ended up in vegetative states. That would have been considered a botched lobotomy like the one performed on rosemary kennedy. Most lobotomies were "successful" in the sense of making a person docile, obedient, and very unintelligent. That's what made the procedure so appealing to the point where over 50,000 procedures were done in such a short time. Most lobotomies were done on young "unruly" women basically turning them into overgrown toddlers so their families or husbands could have complete control over them. But they could still do simple tasks like laundry and cleaning a house, which is what men at the time felt was the place of a woman.
I mean, some men still want that kind of life. 😕
@@kreskin0079 Some women still want that kind of life
@@croutendo2050 to be lobotomized? Sign me up
@@kreskin0079 Oh yes I know. Just last year I had a friend of a friend approach me asking about my work. Then he asked if I could "hypnotize people" and when I said yes, he asked if he could pay me to hypnotize his wife to be less intelligent and more docile towards him and less argumentative. I told him it was possible with enough sessions but would be unethical unless she knew what was going on. Then he lost interest because this was obviously for him and not her.
@@ihmen that's awful. Wow
I don't think Rosemary Kennedy was really mentally ill, until after the lobotomy. She just wasn't acting like her father wanted her to. Or at least that's what I always thought, but I could be wrong for sure.
I made a comment expressing the sentiment. A biographer of Rosemary Kennedy's actually bothered to look through her archived notebooks and she was mostly fine. She did better, academically, after she was transferred to a school with different teaching methods ('30s-'40s Montessori). She was a middle 1 of 8 siblings, statistically, one of them will be more willful than the rest!
I've wondered that myself, too. Was she really ill or was she just inconveniently autonomous for a daughter?
The reason Rosemary was mental ill was because when she was being born the doctor was not in the Kennedy home. So the nurse held Rosemany in for something like 90min causing lack of oxygen to the brain causing permanent brain damage
She enjoyed life too much
I'm inclined to think she had bipolar disorder.
As someone with a form of epilepsy, this is actually so scary to think about. Cause imagine this: if I lived in that time period, this would’ve probably be done to me.
And then some have the nerve to say conditions are invented. This is what happened to people who had conditions just 100 years ago.
Still do 😎
yea...I have both traditional epilepsy and NES's (non epileptic seizures) caused by other things. hearing about older procedures like this both fascinates and scares me ngl.
i still wouldn't let anyone near my brain even with all the "improvements" science has made
You might be better afterwards
@@SnoopyReads i'm sorry?
We have a huge mental illness problem in this country today. In Tennessee, if you go to the ER with suicidal or mental concerns you can be locked in a room for several days. You stay there until space is available in a mental facility. This overwhelms a system that is already broken.
Bingo. Absolutely it’s still seen as a joke
Electroconvulsive therapy ruined my memory. I mean, yeah you can't be traumatized if you don't remember your traumas, but you also need to remember things like your friends names and who you are hanging out with - which I had to be frequently reminded of during the time I was having ECT.
I'm so sorry that happened ❤. My Dr considered it for me a long time ago. Thankfully he decided not to suggest it. Wishing you healing
You still don't remember them? Or AS THEY TOLD YOU, you will have temporary memory loss. Do you feel better, or are you now latching onto temporary memory loss to be depressed?
@@dakawans83 BRUH HAVE SOME DECENCYY a person was severely depressed to the point of needing electroconvulsive therapy and you're just here saying these things to them
This is sort of what the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind deals with. It's wonderful to be able to forget the pain but what else goes with it?
I’m so sorry that happened to you dude. I’m really hoping it wasn’t forced on you. I take meds and I can’t remember basic conversations or who I was hanging out with either.
Walter Freeman’s assistant in brain surgery, James W. Watts, straight up left him after a couple of procedures because of how scared he was of what happened to the patients’ conditions afterward. If that doesn’t speak to the horrors of the lobotomy, I don’t know what will.
That's not true. Together, they developed the Freeman-Watts technique for prefrontal lobotomy, and completed over 200 procedures between about 1936-1945. In 1945, Freeman adapted the procedure, moving to the periorbital method. This is the procedure that disturbed Watts, and led to his decision to sever ties with Dr. Freeman.
Is Walter Freeman related to Gordon Freeman?
@@realvictor2oo7 explains why Gordon doesn’t talk
“Why I have half a mind….”
My wife’s grandmother had a lobotomy for an undefined mental issue, reportedly involving paranoid hallucinations. She was more or less functional, but very passive and almost non-existent conversationally
Which some men desired from their wives which is why so many "opinionated " women were victims of this procedure. I cannot imagine how much potential we've lost, loosing the life and light in their minds:(
@@margodphd So true
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Bojack, obviously@@francisyankovic
@@nashnasheeta better to a bojack then a joseph
01:40 There was no anesthesia used for this procedure. Patients were electroshocked several times till they lost consciousness. It was thought to "enhance" the procedure.
The lobotomy van was lovingly referred to by Freeman and Watson as their ‘lobotomobile’, in which they’d travel around from state hospital to state hospital demonstrating the trans-orbital lobotomy to staff at each. Freeman became so overzealous that he’d have 10 patients lined up on gurneys, strapped down, and show how quickly each case could be performed, at times even performing macabre tricks like spinning around and doing one behind his back. Staff, including nurses in attendance, would run out of the operating theatre so they wouldn’t vomit in front of the other attendees. True story.
As a RN myself, I’m shocked at how rudimentary the procedure was. Like, to perform nearly any procedure now, the provider needs to know exactly how many millimeters or centimeters are involved, likely done under radiology/imaging to ensure precision and safety… yet the lobotomy was done without any of that, with guidelines to just ‘tap’ through the posterior orbit to some approximate depth, then manipulate the leucotome X degrees to the left, then the right, etc… the lack of precision is among the most striking aspects to me- like completely reckless.
Now tell us the history of the trans cult.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 ?????
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 tf that got to do with anything????
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017the wat??
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Me when I am a normal person and not at all weirdly obsessed with weird bigotry
I’ve heard of the “Kennedy Curse” and after reading about what they did to Rosemary, I’m pretty sure they put the curse on themselves. She was a bright, young lady. Got good grades in school and was well liked. The only thing “wrong” with her is that she was an introvert, while the rest of her family were extroverts. Very tragic and sad. 😢
This video made me think about just how screwed I would be if I were born only half a century earlier, as an extremely emotional autistic person who also struggles with various other mental illnesses
Same! I'm disabled, as much as I love old values... how the people of the time treated non-fully able bodied people was just terrible! Lobotomies were done to even the mildest, this is truly wild. The 21st century has it's stupidity and bad decisions, but 70 years ago also had its fair share of problems. x.x
Yes, you would have been reduced to a very simple, unimaginative and dull person.
Cool story bro
As an autistic woman who was fucked up enough to get picked out for examination... I feel this. I got misdiagnosed, and 0 help. I got fucked up a lot. And all I needed was psychoeducation and maybe medication. Unfortunately, I developed depression age 11. Beat it later in life somewhere in my 25ths. Unfortunately, it made my cognitive problems worse. The neglect, and depression have lasting effects worse than what I started with.
5 years wouldn't have made a difference, unless you're like 60 years old.
I've spent most of my 'teens in specialised education, focused primarily on teaching children with autism. I encountered all sorts of people there, from every corner of the Spectrum, as well as hailing from many different backgrounds. A not insignificant number had been institutionalised at some point in the past. Some of their stories were haunting, and the threat of potentially being forced into an institute should this not turn out successful (it really was the last hope before institutionalisation for many of us) instilled fear into most of us there. I am very glad the place was run by people who genuinely wanted to prevent that fate for their pupils no matter the cost, and were largely successful in their efforts. It's an unfortunately rare story, as even those who'd come from other, similar schools attested.
I can't claim to be perfect today, but I know with absolute certainty institutionalisation would have destroyed me.
I used to work in special education with an autistic child under the age of 13. They had only become verbal at age 8 but had been making great progress. Their parents had them institutionalized :(
Also Rosemary’s father made the decision to have this done unilaterally (including from her mother) and either told family & friends nothing, or that she had “been put into a facility.” Rose Kennedy herself admitted that she didn’t see her daughter for 20 years after the lobotomy, but it doesn’t seem likely that she could’ve done much even if she had warning
There wasn’t much she could do.
Joe Sr (may that man rot in the lowest pit of Hell) was also a serial cheater (among other lovely personality traits and behaviors) and at one point, Rose actually left him, but was told by her father “you can only forgive once”. Thus she stayed but chose to look the other way.
I think Rose either suspected or she figured out what her husband had done. However, since he wouldn’t tell anyone about where Rosemary was and clearly didn’t respect his wife, he kept his mouth shut. Rose (knowing her husband pretty well by this point) just did what she had always done, knowing it was a lost cause.
Joe Kennedy was a monster. My family had first hand experience with him. It didn’t end well.
@@janeyrevanescence12 exactly. Absolutely a disgusting excuse for a human
A Childhood friend of mine had an accident where he was thrown from his moped and hit his head in a telephone pole. He was in a coma for a few weeks and when he woke up he was NOT the same person we knew. hes doing fine now, but hes still not the same guy we knew early on. total personality change from a brain injury
Apparently I’m not the same and don’t even speak the same after several concussions and TBIs. I’ve had a shit ton of therapy and I’m somewhat “back”, but I’m a lot more introverted and a loaner now. At least that’s all I can tell. If you ask family and friends you’d probably get a different answer.
@@scoliosys8311try shrooms. Seriously. Look into it for TBI.
@@scoliosys8311 Being a loaner should not cause any problems as long as the others give it back reliably.
yall my personality shifts constantly
imagine those social butterflies
they can switch personalities instantly
mime similar
except its RANDOM
sometimes im silly and funny
someones im absolutely insane like i seriously think people think im clinically insane sometimes
and other times im just chilling at home, life gud, i dont wanna talk, just chillin
then theres the fourth one
the fourth one is just the literal enbodyment of envy
i see somethint i like, i get jealous of someone who has the ability to get it, and then i try to attack them ._.
@@Davidledonkayy that sounds like quite the case of bipolar, if not some other sort of personality disorder
My great grandmother had one.
She was always happy and completely in her own world and acted very childish and innocent.
The last thing I remember ( I was 12) was a christmas where somebody bought her a pack of smokes.
She smoked all of them during the party and thew up in the sink.
Fascinating
You probably never knew her when she was a sensitive, caring, intelligent but troubled woman
@@mxRian4 Lmfao
I mean, I've never had a lobotomy but I've smoked an entire pack of cigs while drinking at a party.. (not good, I know. Alcohol makes smokers smoke more for some reason)
@@StrangeScaryNewEngland Well, alcohol is a depressant, so it probably makes nicotine (a stimulant) less effective, thus needing to smoke more to get the same effect. And combining stimulants with depressants is really stressful for the body
This is one of the craziest historical stories I have ever heard. Poor Rosemary she sounded like a cool person before the lobotomy - like any teen girl with creativity, emotions and personality.
Kudos for not lining up a Better Help sponsorship for this one!
Edit: Just to clarify, it's not something I'd expect from Joe, but I feel like I see it often enough from other creators to mention my anxiety when he was winding up the Nebula read!
NGL I got to see a betterhelp therapist a couple times through a work program. I was thoroughly impressed with the treatment I got. Only reason I quit going was that I left that job.
I really thought that outro was going into a better help sponsor spot and was bracing myself
You funny
Yep, another one who was bracing for that.
@@Paperbatvgchampion there are good therapists on there for sure (I used to see one as well). The big issue is that the company was selling patient data.
my great grandfather was temporarily involuntarily committed in san francisco because he was becoming increasingly violent and having halucinaions (according to the hospital records ive found, dont know the whole story as my family never talked about it ever). turns out he was a druggist (what we call pharmaciss today), and unfortunately back in the ;ate 1800s there were zero safety procedures to keep guys like him safe from the chemicals and fumes involved in making pharmaceuticals and it was common for people in that profession to have mental issues
According to the hospital 👹
I learned about this because Axl Rose mentioned in an interview in the 1980s that he was “manic depressive” (now Bipolar 1) and lived in fear of doctors “jamming an ice pick into his eye.” So I looked that up. 😨😱😬 Nasty business. Very glad they stopped doing that. Especially now that I know I also have Bipolar disorder.
Yeah my mom is Bipolar 1, and I was always so terrified of what used to be done. Worse now, that I've been diagnosed with a personality disorder.
Nobody's bipolar, but my son is extreme ADHD, my wife has agoraphobia/hyperactive anxiety/occasional depression, my nephew is autistic and my half-brother is on the spectrum ("Asperger's" - can't hold a job, can't hold a relationship, barely graduated high school, is 26 but acts 18). It's a really big issue in my family. At least 1 or 2 of them would have been lobotomy candidates 😢
@@User31129 what do you mean nobody's bipolar?? also aspergers is an out dated term
@@nenerosey From his wording and punctuation, he said nobody in his family is bipolar.
As for Asperger's being "outdated" Yes, because using specific terminology for specific sets of issues became unfashionable. Using wide-open, non-specific terms makes it way easier for everyone to jump on the bandwagon and have an 'ism' to wash away responsibility for things like bad or lazy parenting.
Ice picks may have been replaced with chemical lobotomies
I'm happy you brought that up in the video it really was the treatment of rebellious people who did not fit societal norms because Rosemary Kennedy she was a wild child but also the favorite sister of JFK.
So the vegetative state of the patient was considered a success so they kept going???? HOLY........
I mean, have you not had interactions with people online, where you would consider such to be a success and a positive contribution to "Life, The Universe and Everything"?
Isn't that what modern psych meds are supposed to do?
Technically they "cured" the behaviour problems"
But its the same as saying a dead person has all its problems solved.
Same thing with "anti depressants". They literally have the side effects of possibly making someone more depressed, but also the side effects of feeling nothing at all any more. So that's considered an effective treatment.
ADHD, just take a kid who hates being sat in school all day and wants to be doing something more interesting, and just destroy their energy levels by dampening them with drugs.
Person thinks theres something wrong with their body, in certain cases it's considered valid treatment to make futile attempts to change their body to fit their beliefs.
Psychology and medicine is still very much a joke in how they consider certain things to be a success or not.
@@ChrispyNut no because i'm not a psychopath and can understand that even if someone says some horrible stuff online, blocking them is an easy enough procedure that putting them into a vegetative state is unneeded, unwarranted and a completely nuts response to "mean words on screen"
I remember watching a tv documentary on this whole thing once. Many lobotomies were performed on children who had no real issues but didn’t behave as their parents wanted. Often abusive parents or the children had undergone some trauma or upheaval.
One man the interviewed had one done after his father remarried right after his mothers death and his step mother wanted a zombie child.
They scanned his brain and found that he had damaged similar to that if someone after a major stroke or years of dementia.
The lobotomy would have made any issues he had much worse.
It may be better than in the past, but the mental health industry is still crazy.
Yes . . .
Literally lmao
Pun intended
the modern version of lobotomies today is gender affirming care for children. we should know better but doctors are greedy
Sad fact: lobotomy was only definitively banned here where I live in the mid-2000s. Until then, it could still be performed with state permission under the name "psychosurgery," with many clandestine cases. I have a friend who, in his teenage years (1998), was recommended for a lobotomy to treat his "personality disorder." He didn’t go through with it, finding it far too aggressive.
I began my career as a medical regulator in the late 1970s. Even then, many very reputable doctors thought of epilepsy as a mental illness. We had spent the prior 20 years closing all the long term mental hospitals, the same hospitals many are now demanding be reopened. Aside from better drugs, we really haven't progressed much. Last week I had the good fortune to talk to a highly respected clinical psychologist, who told me about advances in the last few years (which I'm really surprised Joe didn't mention). He described physical changes that occur in the brain as psychotic diseases progress, impairing cognitive abilities and worsening psychotic symptoms. With sophisticated testing they are beginning to detect psychoses in much younger patients, and institute therapies that slow or stop those brain changes.
Tailor made babies.
There is so much more to say. Surprized this vid didn't go for 2 hours?
Maybe Joe can get into some of that in a future episode. I didn't know about the continuing changes as a patient is psychotic for longer. I do remember that, as a teenager, parents could no longer institutionalize an uncooperative teen easily but it still happened. A psychology teacher in high school (70s) talked about it and made everyone write down the ACLU number to call if they were arrested and that seemed to be the next step. (You know, back when most of us could remember a dozen phone numbers.)
@@silentm999 A lot of homeless and street people.
@@kitefan1 I hope Joe does do more on this. I retired two years ago. I was fairly expert at addressing substance use disorders in professionals, but I was never trained to deal with psychotic disorders. I recently stumbled across a TH-cam short from a woman called SchizoKitzo, and felt like my eyes were opened for the first time. My "broad" exposure to psychotic disorders was really incredibly limited, and I've learned more about people with psychoses just watching TH-cam videos in the last two months than I gained in my entire career. For the first time I view them as real people. I could have been much more competent if I'd had this experience 40 years ago. I've already talked to my old agency's investigators about training they might consider for them and agency lawyers.
Being someone born in the mid 50’s I had never heard of such a thing as a Prefrontal Lobotomy in my life until my son and I went on a motorcycle ride south from around Pittsburgh Pennsylvania about 10 years ago to a now closed place called the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. WOW, what an eye opening experience! It is now a National Historical Landmark and open for tours. Among many of the interesting parts of the building is the Lobotomy operating room where many lobotomies were performed and a lot of the original “tools” and equipment are still there to be viewed. Talk about being creeped out!
There are also many other “treatment” rooms there, some of the ones you mentioned Joe.
Among all the bizarre things they did there was something told to us by one of the tour guides. Back then a man that was tired of his wife could just drop her off at the front door, tell them that she was mentally ill, and never see her again.
I may have heard of a lobotomy, but did not really appreciate what it was until near the end of the 1982 biopic, Frances, about the life of actress Frances Farmer, played by Jessica Lange. Farmer was not mentally ill.
Craziest part of this story is you have neither a motorcycle or a son. 😮
This era gives me the chills. I remember seeing a documentary where they said door to door salesmen would offer them in the comfort of home if you had an unruly family member. And my mom squinted and said "if it's that easy im sure I could do it myself...." and then stared ominously at me 😒
Why are we here in this life? Why do we die? What will happen to us after death??
@@nevergiveup5939 your mom
@@nevergiveup5939
Q; Why are we here in this life.?
A; Chemistry.
Q; Why do we die.?
A; Chemistry.
Q; What happens to us after death.? Guess what......
A; Oh, it's chemistry. Again.
@@AnOldeSpartan lol
@@nevergiveup5939 no really... chemistry
19:35 omg i was listening to this as i was doing something else, and for 1 terrifying moment, I thought you were about to segway into a betterhelp sponsor 😂
I was too oh my god
SAME I JUMPED TO THE COMMENTS
Whats wrong with betterhelp. Ive seen some ads in videos.
I was so scared too! Like not you toooo!
ME TOO I WAS LIKE NO PLEASE DONT SAY IT 😭
7:14 I would argue that "best of intentions" is code for "need to be controlled," and that we're still doing it.
Its kinda like the phrase bless there heart ❤😂
Agreed, those “best of intentions” excluded the individual’s wellbeing, all consideration was for the “collective interests” of a highly authoritarian, conformist society.
Irregardless of if there was or wasn’t a real medical issue (as plenty had nothing medically wrong with them), these treatments were never about improving the patient’s life, it was always about providing other people (the parents and/or a spouse) an “improved” version of the patient that can be properly controlled by other people.
Conformity was so important they’d rather someone exist in a vegetive state in an asylum for the rest of their lives than be a fully realised individual who rejects societal norms. Women in particular who didn’t submit to their predetermined role in society were frequent victims of forced institutionalisation and/or lobotomies.
Additionally, rather than trying to help someone genuinely suffering from a mental illness, all the sympathy went to the family and all treatment was about lessening the impact the mental illness and/or neurodivergence was having on them, not the individual suffering from it. Consequently, the wellbeing of the patient was sacrificed for the wellbeing of everyone else.
Yesterday's lobotomy is today's sex-change surgery. We're not doing lobotomies, but we're doing something just as destructive and irreversible. And, like lobotomies, a minority of the masses are brainwashed into believing it's a good thing.
Yes these were, and are experiments
agreed, it was difficult to listen to the types of what was essentially torture described, and believe that the people doing it had "the best intentions" in mind.
As the old meme goes ...
Being an old-timey doctor would rule, just drunk as hell like “yeah u got ghosts in your blood, you should do cocaine about it”
Laughed so hard when I read "Ghosts in your blood" 🤣 😭 I have to remember this!
I remember a story my grandmother told me about the doctor who delivered her. This was 1931, in a very small town. Apparently he was so drunk that when he delivered her, he didn’t know what day or time it was so her birthdate is wrong on her birth certificate. He was paid for his services with a sack of potatoes.
Can I smoke rocks instead? I learned how to make them in my late teenage years 😁
Medicine has always existed. Quackery has always existed. The "puritans" were highly fanatical and reshaped american medicine into total nonsense. Americans, and to a lesser exent westerners, have a tremendous affinity for 'quick fixes' that purport to be mechanistic in a clearly explainable way. Lobotomies were invented in the 50s, yet the earliest evidence of brain surgery is in skulls from tens of thousands of years ago.
@@sarahhunter2855Or as they called them back then a sack a taters.
it's important to note re: ancient understandings of the "soul" that for much of history, "soul" meant what we would term "mind." that's the origin of the word "psychology", the greek "psyche" meant "soul." in that way, the ancients did understand that you can be ill or deficient in "soul," just as you could be ill in body. only later did "soul" come to have some spiritual, metaphysical meaning (closer to the ancient concept of 'breath' or 'pneuma', I think?)
There are two people that do believe that there is a separation of soul versus spirit, but they also see that you’re a mental health, your spiritual well-being, and your physical health have no dichotomy. It doesn’t mean, however, that they believe that there are demons because of emotional issues. I believe a lot of people that I know that have this viewpoint see it as there are issues in all illness, spiritually in the sense that there is evil in the world however, science is here, and we should use it to the best of our ability to treat the issues separately because Mind cannot get better if body is not well and body cannot get better if mind is not well, and if neither are well, the spirit cannot be well in the end. So I will say that there is still a few point in the world from for example Eastern Europe religious Fair in the orthodox church that still associate all parts of the body or whole person/being as one thing completely… I’m trying to explain this more eloquently… I’m writing really late so please forgive me. I hope this makes sense.
There are people that do believe that there is a separation of soul versus spirit, but they also see that you’re a mental health, your spiritual well-being, and your physical health have no dichotomy. It doesn’t mean, however, that they believe that there are demons because of emotional issues. I believe a lot of people that I know that have this viewpoint see it as there are issues in all illness, spiritually in the sense that there is evil in the world however, science is here, and we should use it to the best of our ability to treat the issues separately because Mind cannot get better if body is not well and body cannot get better if mind is not well, and if neither are well, the spirit cannot be well in the end. So I will say that there is still a few point in the world from for example Eastern Europe religious Fair in the orthodox church that still associate all parts of the body or whole person/being as one thing completely… I’m trying to explain this more eloquently… I’m writing really late so please forgive me. I hope this makes sense.
Nah, ancient Egyptians literally had many parts of the soul, some physical, some spiritual, you're just trying to project your western view on everything.
As someone who use to have nightmares about getting my eye scooped out by a spoon this did not go well for stopping that fear
I was born in 1963. Growing up, we had a joke: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a Frontal Lobotomy!"
Hey! as someone who has undergone two rounds of ECT, let me tell you that stuff is no fun! A round has minimum 12 sessions. during each session you go into the hospital and they get you on a bed so they can put in an iv. after that you get rolled to either the waiting room/line or just into the OR. in there they put a bunch of electrodes all around your head. then they ask if you're ready and a nurse counts down from 10, usually you're out by 7. from there they run large amounts of electricity through your brain to destroy certain pathways and areas. this induces a very large seizure as well. after some time you wake up in a recovery room, which is usually as dimly lit as possible and in a super quiet part of the hospital. after several hours of recovery you get a juice box and maybe a snack. eventually you get to leave. in my case most of the time this meant going back to the psych ward until i was deemed safe enough to leave. then i would just be taken home by my parents. when they first started i went up to 3 times a week. once it was nearing the end and i was able to go home, it eventually was just once a week. my body has never fully recovered. i have a new fear of hospitals. and i'm pretty sure it didn't even solve the problems they were trying to fix. i was depressed and sewer slide ready both before and after the treatments, just learned to control my impulses due to constant therapy. and not my musculature system is super fucked and is gonna take years of PT to fix alongside some awful tremors and a bunch of new fears. hopefully this can be a warning to some of you who may have family in situations like i was in. dont chose the ECT if you're given the choice
I'm so sorry you've gone through that.
How awful. I'm glad you are able to function somewhat and understand/express what's happening. Please, please be sure you've "covered all the bases" for any nutritional causes or treatments. Please look into gluten and dairy intolerance, possible exposure to toxins like mold or heavy metals (there are so many possibilities), and vitamin deficiencies, perhaps starting with D, magnesium, and B12. There are documentaries and educational videos about all of these topics on TH-cam. Don't just go on the first 1-2, but watch at least a dozen by different people with different approaches, until something starts to make sense. My personal belief is that since the brain is part of the body, we should assume it's a physical problem like every other illness or condition, rather than treat the brain as something special we can't quite understand. It's an organ, right? The chemical imbalance theory has never been proven (and in fact has probably been disproven in many ways), and the last thing I read or heard was that now they don't think it's about serotonin either.
I couldn't remember where I saw that, so I did a quick search and anyone can do the same, but here's a snippet from a website called The Conversation. Someone could look up the article by its title. I have become passionate about knowing the truth about depression not only because I have it (moderately) and have been able to reverse it with things like B vitamins, vitamin D, magnesium, and a gluten-free diet, but because I've seen too many friends who go on medication and either aren't helped or are made worse. Please be your own advocate and become an expert on your own problems! Doctors don't really have time to keep up with the latest research, and they aren't trained in nutrition. I wish you ALL THE BEST!!
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Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain - new study
Published: July 20, 2022 1:12am EDT Updated: July 21, 2022 6:32am EDT
For three decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a “chemical imbalance” in the brain - namely an imbalance of a brain chemical called serotonin. However, our latest research review shows that the evidence does not support it.
Although first proposed in the 1960s, the serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted by the pharmaceutical industry in the 1990s in association with its efforts to market a new range of antidepressants, known as selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs. The idea was also endorsed by official institutions such as the American Psychiatric Association, which still tells the public that “differences in certain chemicals in the brain may contribute to symptoms of depression”.
Countless doctors have repeated the message all over the world, in their private surgeries and in the media. People accepted what they were told. And many started taking antidepressants because they believed they had something wrong with their brain that required an antidepressant to put right. In the period of this marketing push, antidepressant use climbed dramatically, and they are now prescribed to one in six of the adult population in England, for example.
For a long time, certain academics, including some leading psychiatrists, have suggested that there is no satisfactory evidence to support the idea that depression is a result of abnormally low or inactive serotonin. Others continue to endorse the theory. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive review of the research on serotonin and depression that could enable firm conclusions either way.
At first sight, the fact that SSRI-type antidepressants act on the serotonin system appears to support the serotonin theory of depression. SSRIs temporarily increase the availability of serotonin in the brain, but this does not necessarily imply that depression is caused by the opposite of this effect.
There are other explanations for antidepressants’ effects. In fact, drug trials show that antidepressants are barely distinguishable from a placebo (dummy pill) when it comes to treating depression. Also, antidepressants appear to have a generalised emotion-numbing effect which may influence people’s moods, although we do not know how this effect is produced or much about it.
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I did 3 months of ECT twice a week. I had some brief hypomania after a couple sessions, but for the most part I came out feeling exactly the same, and seemingly no memory issues. I was so comfortable with the procedure that I started waving bye bye to the staff just b4 the anaesthesia put me out. I don't say this to discredit or downplay your experience, but rather point out that it's a very different experience for everyone and as far as I'm aware has the highest odds of recovery out of any other treatment for people with major depression and gives people who've tried therapy and medications a last resort that actually has a chance of helping them where nothing else would.
We have proper terms for "sewer slide" like "wanting to end it all."
I almost had to do ECT bc no medication was treating my mental health well at all. luckily i finally found a combination that worked for me when I was around 20 so I didnt have to, but it was very close bc i feel like i had tried every medication on earth. it turns out the medication that works for me isnt allowed for people under 18!
Early in my career in mental health, I worked in a "congregate care facility"--a mental health nursing home in basic English--and saw the results of this sickening procedure. It was about 20 years later and so these patients were in their 40s and up. Some just stared off into a non-existent distance; some slobbered and needed close care; some simply repeated numbers over and over. One was adept at dates, a savant I suppose, and his chart showed he didn't have or at least didn't share this skill before the lobotomy. Asked what day Christmas fell on in 1283, he took very little time in responding. Otherwise, he was a sad, lonely 50-year-old man.
His mother had okayed the surgery because he was "getting out of control" when he was grounded, or limited in where and when he could go somewhere, or she demanded things of him such as doing jobs she usually did around the house. He was 15 years old.
Wow 😮
I’m glad you brought up brain stimulation therapy, I have done rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation) and it helped me a lot! Although I don’t think it should be put beside ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) because rTMS has a lot less side effects, it takes less time and I believe it to be far better than ECT.
I am so so so grateful that your Segway at the end did not turn out to be an advertisement for a certain mental health counseling/personal data collecting website.
Bad voice dictation, no biscuit. The word is segue, even if French spelling is an abomination against Latin.
Does it rhyme with hodgers?
@@Memyselfanadhd Nope, it's better help
The part that Ive always struggled with here, is especially after psychopharmacological treatments were available, how could he look at what the surgery did to people and still think "I'm helping".
Did he really believe that? Did he care more about his reputation than the patients? Or was it that facing the number of lives he destroyed was too much?
Probably a mix of caring about his rep too much AND really truly believing that he was helping/that it was for his patients' own good.
You have to understand that there's a type of person out there who just habitually dehumanizes others. And that kind of person is actually way more likely to end up in a position of power than average.
You think they cared about "helping"? Which part of "His name was immortalized in the medical history and he was ecstatic about all the rewards he got, he bought a van to permanently disable children by mushing their brains, and offering it to people who had wives that argued with them once" did you miss?
If he was going on the road.. he did it for the money
Trepination was used to relieve pressure from within the skull which was generally a symptom of swelling and excess fluid due to, say, cranial injuries and the like. This was a solution devised in the Neolithic era because people getting their brains bruised by big rocks or clubs hitting the skull and was kind of used for headaches in general since the actual reasoning for why it helped was not understood.
In the 50s my aunt was put in a mental hospital and given horrific ( more than 50) amounts of shock therapy. I dont know who gave the ok for it, but when i saw her as a young person, i was traumatized by what i saw. She shook uncontrolably non stop. She was not able to talk normally. That experience affected me my whole childhood into adulthood. Ifeared that i would go crazy too. I went into therapy in my mid 20s to help me understand what i saw and to make certain it would never happen to me. My aunt was eventually released from the hospital and the rest of her life was good. She no longer shook. She lived into her 80s.the reason for her treatment was that when her husband, who was a pedophile divorced her, leaving her with 7 children and no money and suicidal. They were trying to prevent her commiting suicide. She died of cancer. I became close to her when she was living alone and past her trauma.
My great aunt was lobotomized in the 50's in Northern Ontario on account of her depression. After the surgery she became the only depressed person for 1500km to have a strong southern drawl lol
The title was a lot less disturbing when I thought it said ice PACK
lmao, you got me. I laughed out loud when I read this hhahha
same lmfaooo
I thought that too-until I saw your comment 😭
Why are we here in this life? Why do we die? What will happen to us after death??
@@nevergiveup5939 I'm so thankful to know all these answers. ☺
Horrific and barbaric indeed, but I wonder in fifty years how many of the things we do now medically will be described in the same way.
Oh yes let's follow the science?
Iud insertion sans pain relief springs to mind
We're not waiting 50 years. We're doing it now.
I'm curious to see if, as we develop and better understand AI, we see computational parallels to mental illness, and if tackling those challenges might lead to better mental health solutions in humans.
I'm guessing that lopping off people's genitals or breasts and giving them opposite gender hormones because they "feel" like they're the wrong gender, will be top of the list. Especially when done to minors who are easily influenced by social media, peer pressure, etc. Sickening.
I am a retired RN geriatric psychistric clinician. I cared for a two elderly psychiatric hospital patients back in the late 90s who had been given lobotomies. Both were combative and resistant to care, but one was much more combative than the other. It was sad.
As someone who was diagnosed with autism I'm glad I didn't get a lobotomy but I still suffered; I got diagnosed when I was 10 and then was subjected to ABA therapy when I was 12, every wednesday I had to meet with my psychologist, I went from being a happy child who most people got on with, I even had a girlfriend and it turned me into a paranoid anxious wreck. After that I ended up with anger issues and the solution to that was risperidone, these drugs are awful, don't try to say that it's humane. I ended up as a young teenager losing my sex drive and in the end I ended up completely isolated from that girl and my friends as well. As an adult I've struggled from drug and alcohol abuse because of it. Things today are still messed up.
had to look it up but it seems to be - tor//turing you into masking better to ease the discomfort of those around you. have i interpreted it right?
@@vulcanfeline Kind of. I'm eccentric but most people generally like me, the therapy I had to endure back when I was a teenager was about hiding my personality from other people, it was drilled into me that people wouldn't like me if I didn't; in actual fact people did like me but after being subjected to ABA for about 5 years I was left a broken wreck and I have trust issues to this day because of it. I don't exactly know if therapy is better for people today but I know several autistic people my age and we all have scars from it.
@@metalcascade4634 from my autistic experience, masking like that doesn't work in the long term. tbh, idk what would work but that aba sounds horrible /hugz
ps) i found a supportive community on a channel called "i have autism, now what"
@@metalcascade4634I'm so sorry 💔
Sorry about that. Hopefully you are doing better now.
I think you should know that I can hear a clock ticking in the background of the video. It's not super disturbing, but it's probably driving someone out there mad.
I have an ice pick that can fix that for ya'
😂
FINALLY! The opening music doesnt scare all of the unprepared people, pets and several plants in my neighborhood. Give the guy who normalized the volume (or kicked off the process) a raise!
I was really expecting a better help ad lmao
That would be hilarious
I once googled if I could get a lobotomy once... My mental was in a very dark place and I didn't feel like the doctors were listening too me, I was having panic attacks at seemingly random moments and dry heaving in the mornings. I was in a constant state of anxiety for literal years, it's kinda sad that I even googled that kind of thing it goes to show how terrible we are at handling mental issues.
We're still largely in the dark ages of mental illness treatment. Talk therapy and its offshoots like DBT are the most precise and refined treatments we have. Different medicines help some people and not others, and the only way to tell if it will help, hurt or do nothing is to try. Like lobotomies, it's akin to hitting a broken machine with a hammer with very little understanding of how the machine works. Medicines are just a more gentle hammer that's more likely to help. Maybe one day we'll have scans that can tell just what's going wrong and where. Then we might stand a chance of correcting things reliably with medicine or surgery.
What condition did you have?
@@TheSalami General anxiety disorder combined with insomnia, obsessive compulsive disorder and the autism spectrum. I probably have some type of trauma but nothing diagnosed because too me the doctors are pointless... They couldn't help me with my anxiety so there's no way they'd help me with trauma. I've been doing better simply by trying to be excessively positive in my thinking and that has helped a lot; whenever that negative voice comes too my head I tell it to go screw itself and I tell myself something positive instead and this has helped a lot
I have anxiety, am doing much better now. But the first doctor I went to tried to send me to an eating disorder ward. Thank the Gods the nurse in charge of the ward listened to me and refused to take me.
@@lizanna6390 good to hear your doing better. Anxiety can be devastating
9:37 Using head injuries received during the World Wars, doctors were able to "map out" which parts of the body were covered by specific regions (which got damaged) of the brain.
15:04 didn't the Press give his vehicle that name? Didn't Jack Kevorkian use a similar vehicle for his trade?
18:00 ECT is a modern non-invasive version - medical doctors regard as not proven safe but psychiatrists swear by them.
Now they prefer a handheld Mixmaster as it's much quicker and effective.@@KOZMOuvBORG
Science, live saving, built on the blood of many others.
As the Firesign Theater said, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
ironically not that different since alcohol harms every cell in your body every time you consume more than 1 - 2 low % beers
@@saturationstation1446 a bottle rarely renders you a vegetable in one go
@@AammaK 😂😂😂 big facts!
Firesign Theater is magnificent, I used to listen with my uncle when we were tri... well, nevermind. lol
That was expanded to:
I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
My grandma's sister, so great aunt, was Lobotomized in 1950. It was an old family secret. She was "sent away" when she was 17, she was an unwed pregnant teenager. Somehow, that led to a brain surgery. My grandma raised the baby as her own, and great aunt was "never the same" and sent to a "state house". I never knew her, but my mom found out the truth when my grandma passed. My mom's big sister, wasn't her big sister.
This is super fascinating to me, as I have had a traumatic brain injury, with 2 bleeds on my brain. I know how much my injury has changed my personality.
I thought the myth of Rosemary Kennedy being intellectually disabled had long been dispelled by a biographer not too long ago. It was more likely that Rosemary was of AVERAGE intelligence among a family of hyper-intelligent people, thus deficient by comparison. Her archived notebooks show that her aptitudes weren't that far off, just not above average enough for expectations.
It's my pet theory that she just wasn't self-repressive enough for her father's social image.
The Kennedys are, as a group, AT BEST average intelligence. Calling any of them "hyper intelligent" is pure comedy.
Bro stop a$s worshipping those billionaires. They're not rich because they're smart. They're smart because they can afford higher education. Also they're not above average level mathematics geniuses lmfao
@@samuelclemens6841 That's how that earlier generation regarded themselves. Again, I really need to find that one biography; Rosemary's mother was reported to have said that Rosemary "couldn't keep up" with the family dinner discussions. Obviously, I don't have a time machine to see if these dinner talks had intellectual rigor or if it was ivory tower nonsense. My interpretation is that Rosemary would have been the type more at ease talking about the latest celebrity gossip rather than commenting on sociopolitical issues.
She was also “difficult” (aka not a subservient young woman). I think that’s a huge factor as to why her parents decided to get her lobotomized, and why lobotomies were more prevalent in females instead of males.
Hyper intelligent people don't approve of icepicks bring shoved in their child's skulls. Even some regular folk knew it was a bad idea.
I’ll keep it concise, but Joe… you and your team. This community. It is a big positive part of my life. Has been for a long time. I’m grateful and better off because of y’all. Thank you for being here all these years
That means a lot, thank you!
New suscriber here! Let me say I love the way you narrate and edit the videos. It made me realized how fried my brain is with all the short-lenght (say reels or shorts) content. All the info just dropping like a bomb in less than a minute... this video is the opposite and really refreshing to watch
I've got ASD. Partner has ADHD. Both only diagnosed as adults. Both literally called "Ferral" in school (We're only 28...) among other things. Our 6yr old is ASD. Our 5yr old is ASD. And 3 is being closely monitored because he's definitely ADHD but too young to get officially diagnosed. My children were incredibly unsafe at school, to themselves and others. They're now home-ed so they can stay regulated properly, get tailored education etc.
I know full well if we go back not so far, every single one of us would have been institutionalised before reaching double didgets. I almost was in my teens. Was told my son (Very bright, very capable when regulated. Just very aggressive and doesn't engage when overstimulated) might need residential care (Laughed at by professionals who saw him at home!). And this is now! He wouldn't have survived at any other point in history. It's terrifying. It will have me awake and crying some nights just thinking about how if we weren't lucky enough to have been born in a country seen as progressive, and in a time where we have more information, life could have been over so fast...
Mental health history is the stuff of nightmares.
@@donovanchilton5817 first, none of your business. Second, disabled people have always been and always will be, there is no ethical way of getting rid of all disabilities and disorders. And we don't have to. People are perfectly capable of helping and taking care of each other.
Passing on issues... Do you hear yourself? What do you propose we do?
@@anitamihholap5926 hes right tho why r u bringing more people into a worse life
If you think autism is an “issue” or that they have a worse life then you need to research autism. You have been misinformed. 1 in 52 births so you definitely know some who you don’t realize are autistic.
I have a son who is autistic and I think his dad is as well. I had a great great aunt who was eventually institutionalized. Census record ms suggest that she was likely autistic. I was horrified to learn that the hospital was known for sterilizing their patients so they could not have children and pass their “conditions” on. It made me cry thinking of what could have happened had my son been born in a different time.
@@donovanchilton5817 so your bright idea/solution is eugenics, totally original.
People would also visit these early asylums as a type of human freak show/zoo. They paid admittance for a tour, to gawk at the ‘depravity’ 😢
All in the name of science. SICK
@@deborahwhit118 they actually did it as entertainment, sadly…
14:42 PTSD is listed as one of the ailments that a lobotomy could cure, which piqued my curiosity, because I thought it was a more modern term. Indeed a quick browse of Wiki notes "Early in 1978, the diagnosis term "post-traumatic stress disorder" was first recommended in a working group...".
Can anyone shed more light on when "PTSD" was first coined?
that poster has ADD on it too, which became a diagnoseable thing in 1980. I almost think it might be a subtle satirical reference, definitely from the after-lobotomy time.
The term "post-traumatic stress disorder" came into use in the 1970s, in large part due to the diagnoses of U.S. military veterans of the Vietnam War.[25] It was officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980 in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
So it seems like the poster shown is a spoof.
But given the context in which it is shown, it's likely that whoever chose to include it, didn't realise that and took it at face value.
Not sure but it evolved from Shell Shock to Battle Fatigue to PTSD somewhere in the 70s.
My step-dad was diagnosed with "Shell Shock" sometime in the late 60s/very early 70s but that diagnosis was updated to PTSD many decades later. He's now described as having been diagnosed with PTSD since around 1970 even though technically that is not true, when a condition changes names you aren't necessarily rediagnosed they just retcon the outdated one. If you were diagnosed with Aspergers in the 90s you're just described as having been diagnosed with autism since the 90s, etc.
The condition of PTSD has been being diagnosed for a very very long time, the use of the new term is likely just a retcon of all the old terms for the same diagnosis.
This is such a compelling case
I worked in an old Craftsman house or Victorian 20 some years ago. There was a hidden room in the attic space for what the owners were told held a "mongoloid" child. Humans are the worst. Thanks
I was born in 1948. I remember people talking about lobotomies a lot when I was kid in the 50's. Even as a kid it seemed to me to be a very blunt instrument.
The ice picks were actually pretty sharp.
Oh, you mean...
It was and is barbaric 😎
My dad was a paranoid schizophrenic. He could be very violent. Fortunately he was diagnosed at a time when electro-shock therapy was the solution. Its effect on him was “interesting”. He was no longer violent as far as we could tell, but you could pick up an aura of extreme agitation when you talked to him.
As a Portuguese i am so sorry for all the suffering this procedure has caused. Still can not believe one of the biggest hospitals in lisbon is still named after him.
There is a film about Frances Farmer called Frances played by Jessica Lange about a woman (she was an actress in the 30s/40s ) who was very abused by the system & lobotomized in the film iirc. And of course everyone knows One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Nicholson. Be glad we now have addiction counseling & rehab centers & outpatient treatment & patient advocacy. Mental Health Services are still abysmal but no one will stick an ice pick in your eye (hopefully) My grandmother had her spine damaged from Electro Shock Therapy. She lived with chronic pain & depression for years until she finally offed herself by drinking bleach & taking an entire bottle of aspirin.
If I'd been born 30 years earlier I think I would have opted for the procedure. Not because I think it's humane, or in any way therapeutic. But simply because when my later diagnosis presented I would have done ANYTHING to get 'myself' back (whatever that meant), my parents would have too. They sold hope of a "cure". That is horrifying.
So Noone expected Phineas Gage to be mad he had to work at the same place with the same people at the same job that but a rod through his brain???
I always felt it was improper to attribute his behavioral changes to brain damage alone. I reckon anyone who has a meter of steel rod blasted through their skull would experience behavioral changes regardless of brain damage, shits traumatic. Left him disfigured and disabled, little more than a circus attraction. I'd be irritable too
Growing up I always heard the word asylum and always associated it negatively, so then I was confused when I learned that asylum was supposed to mean a place of safety. I now realize it's because I always associated asylum with mental asylums which were clearly not a place a safety
My grandma was diagnosed with manic depression (today called bipolar disorder) in the late 70’s so after the lobotomy craze.
It scares me to death that she might’ve been given one had her symptoms started getting severe before Freeman was exposed as a dangerous quack.
Cool fact, I have Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and when I'm having a particularly hard day and my heart rate will not go down, it actually DOES help when I submerge my body in ice cold water.
For anyone interested in the science, look up the human dive response.
I have pots too
Having a sister in law who suffers from very severe bi-polar disorder, with the violence, promiscuity and deficent personal hygiene that entails, I'm not surprised families would reach for any promising treatment at all. Right now, with the mental hospitals closed down for humanitarian reasons, this poor woman is so heavily sedated she is bed bound, unable to communicate or looking after even basic human functions, including hygiene and bathroom functions. And zero hope for any improvement. It's an unwinnable situation.
I wasn’t ready for the lobotomobile 💀💀💀I know I shouldn’t have laughed but I couldn’t help it🤣
Holy moly. I remember you celebrating 1 million subs. Youre almost at 2milly now! Congratulations, Joe! Deserved brother.
My ex worked with the de-institutionalization of people committed for issues ranging from fairly severe developmental disabilities to pregnancy. Not kidding on that last one. And deafness. I met one of her clients, a then 30 something man who had spent a couple decades in an institution because he was hard of hearing.
So I have serious epilepsy that is only controlled by strong controlled substances and I am so very aware of how close I am to surgery being the solution. I do love how modern medicine likes to act like it's so much better than before, and I don't wanna spit at it... I am not disabled from my disability.
But epilepsy treatment has never been "successful" in the sense that we don't have to learn how to live with major side effects. Even the medicines are really hard to deal with. My current meds took close to 2 years to be able to function again.
Epilepsy has always been a game of "this horrible thing is better than the alternative". Learning how to function again on two controlled substances (one is a benzo) was hard hard. Brain surgery is no walk in the park even with modern medicine
OCD was criteria for lobotomies??? Dude I would have been screwed 😭
Same 😭