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>a few decades ago, an iron rule was that medicating mental health problems in children is to be avoided if at all possible Perhaps it is because Big Pharma wa
by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>a few decades ago, an iron rule was that medicating mental health problems in children is to be avoided if at all possible
Perhaps it is because Big Pharma wasn't the beast it was now. Treatment for mental illness decades ago was still quite horrid though -- cutting up "patients'" brains (lobotomy) and electrocution being some of the methods used for "treatment".
- DanBC 10y agoECT is still used and it's an important, life-saving, treatment. It's rightly used as a measure of last resort, and there are extra controls to make it much harder to give someone ECT against their will (in England). If it's being misused in the US that's a problem with the fucking awful state of healthcare over there, not with the treatment itself. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/17/licking-a-battery-what-its-like-to-have-ect-electroconvulsive-therapy?CMP=share_btn_tw https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/17/licking-a-ba... https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/17/what-is-ect-and-how-does-it-work?CMP=share_btn_tw https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/17/what-is-ect-...
- neuromantik8086 10y agoNot to mention that drug testing basically amounted to the following process: 1) An MD at a psychiatric asylum finds a drug somehow (plants, the mob, who knows). 2) Aforementioned MD doses half of the asylum with the drug without their consent. 3) MD publishes paper, gets drug deal and profits. Ah yes... for the halcyon days before IRBs.