Does anyone know if mental hospitals really damage the brains of problematic patients? If so, isn't that illegal?
"It is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep, to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot
It appeared that they used electro-shock therapy as a punishment of some kind--I definitely think that's illegal.
But in terms of using it as actual therapy, it isn't illegal; but it CAN cause significant brain damage. A friend of mine used EST to try and cure his depression--it didn't, and he also lost a lot of his short term memory.
Also--in the end when they seemed to cut out part of Anand's brain: definitely seemed illegal to me.
isn't thank like a labotomy or however you spell it. I think it became illegal in the States in the 1970s or 80s.
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