[beef]

“If electroshock therapy and lobotomy are the pinnacle of treatment, it needed to be shut down.”

So we couldn’t fix that without shutting down the hospitals and turning the patients loose? Almost all chronic homelessness involves mental illness and/or drug abuse. They need to be restrained and treated.

[Roccus]

The Kennedy family in an attempt to assuage their own guilt over their father’s treatment of Rosemarie were in the forefront of that.
Whoreldo Rivera’s ABC expose` of Willowbrook, though necessary, lit the powder keg.

[gundog]

It amounted to little more than experimentation on helpless people, in many cases. Electroshock was regarded as legitimate therapy into the early ‘60s. Hemingway was treated d with it at the Mayo Clinic.

From what I’ve seen of the chronically homeless, it’s a chicken -or-egg thing with the drug/alcohol abuse and mental illness. It’s striking how many have violent events in their past...murder or suicide of loved ones.

[Persevero]

Mental illness/brain damage go hand in hand with drug abuse. You can’t abuse drugs at that level without losing your mind at least after a while.

They are twins - addiction and insanity.