“female patients – they were almost always women – were put to sleep for three to four months (in one case, five), only roused from their beds to be fed, washed and given electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): a shock of up to 110 volts that passed bilaterally through the temporal lobe of the brain, triggering a grand mal seizure”
I would assume that friends and family would have noticed their prolonged absence.
Would you not visit your mom, daughter or spouse for months on end?
The psychs lie and say that the “treatment” requires isolation from the family.