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They're not even superficially better- a lot of them are worse. And, at least when they called it electroshock everybody knew it was Russian roulette with the
by telgareith 2y ago
They're not even superficially better- a lot of them are worse.
And, at least when they called it electroshock everybody knew it was Russian roulette with the prize being a vegetable.
- sudoshred 2y agoI agree that many are worse, for the patient. In using the word superficially I meant to imply the modern treatments are more palatable (I am searching for the right word to use in this case and struggling) for the attendants and witnesses to the treatment, not the patient.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoThis is true. Drugging a person is not a healing process: it's a punishment, retribution for their moral offenses which may not be punishable as crimes. If a person complains too much, or becomes a nuisance to society, or disruptive, then they are penalized and sentenced to a "virtual incarceration" by means of drugs and clinical monitoring. Psychiatric drugs were explicitly developed as a replacement for confinement and physical restraints. The asylum system was shut down deliberately once the technology was in place to turn them out on the streets. All those homeless you see today are actually imprisoned and being punished. The apparatus is simply invisible to you.
- mistrial9 2y agothis is outdated in modern pharmacology across the West
- porksoda 2y agoMy ex had some time in the hospital before i met her, she told me sincerely that electricity applied to her head was the best thing that ever happened to her.
- cwillu 2y agoMeanwhile the prize I won is tinnitus and a persistant uncontrollable twitch, neither of which have subsided even years after the “treatment” that caused them. Like they said, it's roulette.