Michele

“had been insulin shock therapy, in which the patient was injected with insulin to induce a short coma; the theory was that regular treatments, a coma a day, might slowly chip away at the effects of psychosis. Then came the lobotomy, the severing of the nerves of a patient’s frontal lobes—which, as the British psychiatrist W. F. McAuley delicately put it, “deprives the patient of certain qualities with which, and perhaps because of which, he has failed to adapt.”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

“My mother is right. I can’t change the world or the people in it. But I can do something about my mood,”
― A.B. Whelan, As Sick as Our Secrets

“He had a firm rule when it came to relationships, what little experience he had of any that lasted over a month. When it’s over, it’s over. You should never go back.”
― Katerina Diamond, The Secret

“Insane asylums were filled with test subjects who were forced to take cocaine, manganese, and castor oil; injected with animal blood and oil of turpentine; and gassed with carbon dioxide or concentrated oxygen (the so-called “gas cure”).”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family