Some were dunked in cold water, or soaked in baths for hours
or days, unable even to exit the tub to use the restroom.
And there was a time when mad doctors gave thousands of patients
lobotomies with crude ice picks, straight through the eye socket.
And let's not forget the treatments made famous by the movie "One
Flew Over A Cuckoos Nest." To many people's shock and dismay,
ECT, otherwis known as electroshock or electronconvulsive threapy,
still happens today.
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