This is a topic I find intresting... Hopefully someone here would enjoy this thread...

If you are sensitive kindly leave... Graphic pictures would be included...

I know I shouldn't post this here... But the education section is dead so...

Fernandezisback

Thesourcerer

Kingwin

Jeon

In 1945, American surgeon Walter Freeman developed the 'ice pick' lobotomy...

It was usually performed under local anaesthetic...

It only took a few minutes and involved driving the icepick through the thin bone of the eye socket... Then manipulating it to damage the prefrontal lobes...

In other words the icepick was hammered through the eye socket into the brain and "wriggled around" often leaving the patient in a vegetative state...

The first lobotomy was developed and performed by a Portuguese neurologist... António Egas Moniz...

He is regarded as one of the founders of modern psychosurgery...

Evil in it's purest form...

Moniz had an idea that some forms of mental illness were caused by an abnormal sort of stickiness in nerve cells... Causing neural impulses to get stuck and the patient to repeatedly experience the same pathological ideas...

He thought that if the nerve fibers causing these morbidly fixed ideas could be destroyed... The patient might improve...

In November 1935... He and his assistants made the first attempts at this type of psychosurgery...

First they gave a series of alcohol injections to the frontal lobe through holes drilled in the skull...

After seven patients they switched to cutting the lobe with a wire. Nothing was removed; connections were just severed...

dawnomike:
Evil in it's purest form...

He won a nobel prize... That's science for you... It was awful but we've come a long since... Lobotomy is used to treat epilepsy...

The first psychosurgery was performed in 1935 on a 63-year-old woman with depression... Anxiety... Paranoia... Hallucinations and insomnia...

The patient experienced a rapid physical recovery and two months later... A psychiatrist noted that she was calmer and less paranoid and well oriented...

Pictures...

Within a year of reading Moniz's publication, he and an assistant had performed 20 lobotomies...

Freeman would sometimes perform the two-handed lobotomies: hammering ice picks into both eyes at once...

In 1952... He performed 228 lobotomies in a two-week period in West Virginia alone...

More pictures...

Lobotomy was performed mostly on women...

By 1942... 75% of Freeman and Watts patients were women...

This gender disproportion has been linked to the fact that it was in fact women who were diagnosed with depression and mania than men which made them better candidates for the procedure...

This also stems from the excessive need to sedate and tranquilize outspoken and opinionated women who were depressed because of the pressures of the household...

Very terrifying .

Jeon:
Very terrifying .

Extremely...

Mental houses then... Sheesh!

From ice baths to electroconvulsive therapy and even lobotomy...

Scary...

Freeman believed that mental illness was related to overactive emotions... So by cutting the brain he believed he could cut away these feelings...

While the vast majority of his patients seemed to recover... Reduced tension or agitation... Many also showed other effects... Such as...

Apathy...

Passivity...

Lack of initiative...

Poor ability to concentrate

A decreased intensity of their emotional response to life...

Seizures...

Loss of bladder control or bowel control...

Changes in appetite...

Weakness...

Changes in language ability...

Brain infection...

Cognitive impairment...

Changes in personality and emotion...

Etc...

I'll post before and after pictures...

Lobotomies were usually carried out on patients with schizophrenia... Severe depression or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)...

In some cases... People with learning difficulties or problems controlling aggression...

They were performed on children too... For being children...

How dangerous is a kid?

The surgery reduced the patients to morons... Most of whom had to re-learn how to use the toilet...

Freeman was more concerned with the appearance of his patients than the post-operative side effects of lobotomy...

And yes.. Women were better off as 'household pets'...

Nothing behind those eyes...

if you dey create threads like this for NL, pesin go take you serious , instead of bragging about your exes at the age of 19

Ballzproblemm:
if you dey create threads like this for NL, pesin go take you serious , instead of bragging about your exes at the age of 19

I used to... But no one was interested... Threads on boys I like make frontpage...

Worried that you're unemployed? Have a lobotomy!

And a few more...

I'll be back soon to continue...

Gratefully science has advanced

siofra:
Gratefully science has advanced

Yes...

If not you and I and the billion other outspoken women would have been lobotomized...

Can the person still see after the lobotomy?

TheCeasar:
Can the person still see after the lobotomy?

Yes...

Here's one... He was lobotomized at the age of twelve... For being disobedient... Dreamy... Etc...

Typical kid...

His stepmother encouraged his father to consent to the operation...

Other therapist told her Howard was just being a child... Most even said she's the cause...

But Freeman willingly performed the surgery on him...

He's written a book...

I'll write more about him...

Datboredberri:
Yes...

Here's one... He was lobotomized at the age of twelve... For being disobedient... Dreamy... Etc...

Typical kid...

His stepmother encouraged his father to consent to the operation...

Other therapist told her Howard was just being a child... Most even said she's the cause...

But Freeman willingly performed the surgery on him...

He's written a book...

I'll write more about him...

damn

TheCeasar:
damn

What's worse?

Risk damaging the eyes or damaging the most complex thing; the human brain?

Scary...

Datboredberri:
Freeman believed that mental illness was related to overactive emotions... So by cutting the brain he believed he could cut away these feelings...

Hmmh.
I can't stand to imagine the pains