Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "The Dark side of Science: The Lobotomy, the worst surgery in history? (Documentary)" video.

  1. The treatment of mental patients has never been good. There is a fundamental reason - people (in this case the doctor) that have power over other people tend to inflict misery - it is a dark side of human nature. It arises whenever there is a power imbalance - mental hospitals, in gaols, invading armies, etc Look up "Stanford Prison Experiment." In this experiment, university students were recruited to pretend to be prisoners and guards. The experiment had to be stopped early because the "guards" abused and maltreated the "prisoners." In the USA and certain other countries, mental hospitals were often owned by the doctor. It was thus very much in his financial interest to make patients passive and easy to manage, while incapable of living at home - the lobotomies and other nasty things assured the doctor of never ending income with minimal expenses, with patients just sitting quietly vegetative, and eating when given food. Typically, the treatments have no clearly known mechanism for cure or even benefit. First, there were lobotomies. Then when lobotomies got a bad name, in came chlorpromazine - a drug that has no known curative or beneficial mechanism and is nearly as bad as a lobotomy. Then came ECT - electroconvulsive therapy - delivering electric current to the brain strong enough to burn parts of it out. Now that ECT has rightly got a bad name just like lobotomy, they invented trans-cranial magnetic stimulation TMS). Make no mistake, its effect on the brain is the same as ECT - no known curative or beneficial mechanism, it is causing electric current to flow in the brain, wrecking brain cells, same as ECT, but working by transformer action instead of direct connection of electrodes. IMPORTANT NOTE: TMS is also used to treat brain cancers. It is a legitimate treatment for that, as it compromises and/or destroys tissue, and that's just what you want with cancer. But not for mental issues.
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