The human brain has been, and always will be, a mystery. The more we learn about the way the brain works, the more accepting of various mental ailments we are. Before the Enlightenment period, however, we essentially treated mentally ill individuals as zoo animals to experiment on and gawk at. Even after the Enlightenment, without fairly recent advances in neuroscience, our treatment of the unstable would be considered quite cruel.
Madhouses.
Chemically Induced Seizures.
Mesmerism (Magnet Therapy).
Rotational Therapy.
Insulin-Coma Therapy.
Female Hysteria Treatment.
We’re still discovering new things about mental illnesses every day, but at least we’re not spinning people in circles or putting them in comas willy-nilly.
Doctors Used To Perform These Insane Procedures On Patients. Were THEY Insane?
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