BUT...you lost me at the third paragraph:
Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin, celebrated around the world for his war on psychiatric quackery such as lobotomies and electro-shock “therapy,” sounded the alarm about the Illinois plan.
"Harvard trained" doesn't mean a whole lot these days.
"Electro-shock 'therapy'" works, and is much better in the long term than lifetime prescriptions for head meds which need frequent adjustment and augmentation with other head meds.
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I don’t think much of shock treatment. My mom had it, late 1940s, early 50s.
It may have helped her out initially, but I believe that later in her life it caused her a lot of problems.