Status Updates From My Lobotomy

“The surgeries sometimes went badly. A Washington, D.C., police officer hemorrhaged after his lobotomy and became a vegetable. Leucotomes broke off in patients’ heads. One patient died on the operating table when Freeman stopped, mid-surgery, to take a photograph.”

‘He often visited patients after their surgeries and pronounced them “cured” or “improved” because their worst symptoms had disappeared. But he made these visits four or five days after the surgery, when they were still barely conscious. Many of them would experience a complete return of their anxiety, or their hysteria, or their depression...’

‘He returned to Lisbon, and in late 1935 began performing similar frontal lobe experiments on human beings. Moniz called the process “psychosurgery.” He drilled holes in his patients’ heads, and made cuts in their frontal lobes, using a tool he called a “leucotome.” He called the procedure itself a “leucotomy.”

Moniz believed this was a promising treatment for mental illness....’

“But all six of the psychiatrists, I found out later, said my behavior was normal. Four of them even said the problem in the house was with her. They said she was the one who could benefit from treatment....”

Talk about an evil stepmom. Good LORD

“Not until an autopsy was performed did her doctors realize she had cancer of the colon. [...]

Some family members would remember later that she had complained to her doctor repeatedly that she didn’t feel well, that she had pains. The doctor had chalked it up to morning sickness, and paid no attention to it.”

Typical

‘...Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American lobotomy, told me he was going to do some “tests.”

It took ten minutes and cost two hundred dollars. The surgery damaged me in many ways. But it didn’t “fix” me, or turn me into a robot. So my family put me into an institution.’

Jesus

y'all just do me a favor and don't ask