Summary: Sharon and Mindy discuss a bunch of different past mental health treatments that were used throughout history, that range from the bizarre to just plain barbaric. Most of them probably should not have existed in the first place. References: https://online.csp.edu/blog/psychology/history-of-mental-illness-treatment/ https://www.everydayhealth.com/pictures/worst-mental-health-treatments-history/ A treasure trove of articles on inhumane mental health practices History of inhumane mental health treatments from talkspace Outdated and outlandish treatments The good, bad and inhumane Mental Floss article on mind-boggling treatments Dorothea Dix’s tireless fight to end inhumane treatment for mental health patients https://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/odd-psychiatric-treatments#page=2 https://sunrisehouse.com/research/history-evolution-mental-health-treatment/ https://www.mdlinx.com/article/-barbaric-medical-practices-still-used-today/lfc-3762 https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/may/mental-health-conditionsubstance-use-comparing-us-other-countries https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-quackery/history-hysteria https://allthatsinteresting.com/henry-cotton https://daily.jstor.org/the-unproven-deadly-common-cure-for-schizophrenia/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudanum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/149002 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/89268/lure-laudanum-victorians-favorite-drug https://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2013/02/poetry-pain-and-opium-in-victorian-england-elizabeth-barrett-brownings-use-of-laudanum.html http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/heroin/history/laudlady.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/prefrontal-cortex https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15629160 https://www.livescience.com/42199-lobotomy-definition.html https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/43/3/article-pE6.xml https://allthatsinteresting.com/rosemary-kennedy-lobotomy https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/ect-shouldnt-be-last-resort-treatment https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electroconvulsive-therapy-a-history-of-controversy-but-also-of-help/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentylenetetrazol https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electroconvulsive-therapy-a-history-of-controversy-but-also-of-help/ https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsive-therapy/about/pac-20393894 https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/ect-shouldnt-be-last-resort-treatment https://www.healthline.com/health/electroconvulsive-therapy#benefits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.97.3.667 whorestalkhorror@gmail.com Instagram Patreon Facebook Twitter Thunder crash SFX by ophylia Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) Fade out has been added https://freesound.org/people/ophylia/sounds/474995/
