An author I admire greatly, Janet Frame, has a brush with this - "After a suicide attempt she spent eight years in mental hospitals in New Zealand, receiving 2

An author I admire greatly, Janet Frame, has a brush with this - "After a suicide attempt she spent eight years in mental hospitals in New Zealand, receiving 200 electroshock treatments. She was about to have a lobotomy when a hospital official read that she had won a literary prize. She was released. Later, a panel of psychiatrists determined that she had never had schizophrenia.. she was not mentally ill, just different from other people." https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/books/janet-frame-79-writer-who-explored-madness.html https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/books/janet-frame-79-writ... Her book Faces in the Water describes the experience, it's chilling.