21 Disturbing Pictures of Lobotomy Before and After

That's all they knew, they thought it was, and they did what they thought was right. Now we know more, but we'll have the same scenario in 100 years. Remember it was the only option back then, either a lobotomy or no treatment.

"Smile for the camera."

false, about the noting down effects. These photos they are showing you are ripped out of larger notes which the effects are written out in detail.

I was thinking the same thing.

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More like terrifying... poor people

Contrary to what Porno for Pyros thinks, we will NOT make great pets.

“Household pets” is sarcasm. There’s a lot of distortion in the media from the 1950s because so many years have gone by and many things have drastically changed; it was a completely different world back then. There’s a theory “you can’t fully understand a culture unless you’ve had the lived experience” It’s brutal these people lost their personalities though, just absolutely savage… if only they had more options back then…

Dont we all wish to be a cat in our next life?

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oh yes, schizophrenia is so feminist, so cool

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KEK

Amen to that.

I think it is easy to project that onto the picture since we know it is likely true. If you saw the picture without any context, it would probably be different.

Would you rather be empty and be able to live a relatively normal life with your family, or plagued by horrible hallucinations that cause you to scare and very possible injure your family? (edited for a spelling mistake)

I think she looks happy. There's a sparkle in her eyes that wasn't in the left picture.

They don't do well off in the before pic either

Oh b******t

I genuinely believe a lot of people would still prefer this to be our fate tbh. Something they don't have to look at, don't have to think about, don't have to make allowances for at work. Of course they'd never say it, noooo that would get them downvoted. They never need to say it though. They repost motivational bs about how terrible ableism is right before they tell a neurodivergent to educate themselves for not using perfectly screened language or call them cringe because they don't make eye contact. As soon as the wind blows back to appearance = healthy (which actually it's starting to do if you notice) then they'll find rhetoric to repeat like a mantra until they convince themselves this is for the best again. It'll all be about fitness and wellness and putting society first this time, just watch.

I don't think we're looking at the same pics.........

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It says "She HAS continued well for six months", meaning that at the point when the article was written, only six months had elapsed so they didn't know anything past that

Schizophrenia isn't curable with justsupport. It requires heavy duty medication they didn't have back then.

Overall it was horrible, I don't disagree. But why does this particular one break your heart? "Support" doesn't help with catatonic schizophrenia. I really wonder if there weren't some small cases where it actually helped, and that was the impetus for all the damage they did to others with this "procedure". I mean, they really had absolutely no cure for catatonic schizophrenia at the time (or even now?)

Forcing women back then, forcing women now. The fight for human rights is far from being over..

@LoneWolfie Yes. Dog eat dog.

I'm having the same issue.

Horror? A lobotomy is a very simple, almost pain free procedure...

Yes, because living with catatonic schizophrenia is SO much better than being at peace.