Yes he did. Him and many others. Fortunately we are past that now. Couldn't imagine being a psychiatrist in that era

Actually Rosemary was left mentally disabled- at least to some degree- during her birth. She was born September 1918 during the Spanish Flu pandemic and the doctor who was supposed to help her mother give birth was busy due to the pandemic when her mum went into labour. The nurse actually instructed her mum to not push and pushed the crowning Rosemary back in, depriving her of oxygen for several minutes until the doctor could arrive. She was noticeably slow in her development, learning to walk, talk etc compared to her siblings and other kids her age, which to her super competitive dickhead father was a huge disappointment. When she was in her teens/ early twenties her behaviour, at least to her dad, was getting worse. I mean from what I read about it she was just a relatively typical young woman who was acting out her frustrations of being seen as 'less than' by her own douchey socialite dad, and her dad was only pissed because she wasn't anything like the smart, preppy, upper-crust, goody-goody, socialite who was as competitive as his other kids that he wanted her to be. Also he was very much into Eugenics, and her disability, even though it was brought on by oxygen depravation during birth and not genes, didn't want his socialite rich snob buddies to see him as genetically inferior. Still, her dad heard about the lobotomy as this 'New, exciting cure for all mental ills!' and went for it. As you said, he set it up behind everyone else's back, including poor Rose, who seemingly thought it was just another medical check up or minor treatment, the procedure ruined her, she went from an average but peppy young woman to a woman with the mental capacity of a toddler, and her dad basically dumped her in some posh mental hospital and didn't tell anyone, even the family about it. He told the press she was at some college busy with studies for years until eventually he never mentioned her again. He didn't even visit her ONCE. Just 'Oh she's useless, dump her over there' and fucked off. What a great dad! /s Later on her brother JFK found out about what happened to her (I think just after he became president) because unlike his dad he actually GAVE A SHIT about her and had wondered for a long time where she went and why. I can't remember if he did visit her, I think so, but most of her other siblings did and had her moved to a better place. They would visit her often over the years until she passed on in 2005.

@@Lozzomatic oh wow, this was so interesting to read, thank you!

Yeah, otherwise half the US population would be walking around with only half their frontal lobe right now.

@@hunterfox6176 You mean they're not? Could've fooled me...

I really like your videos! They're so educational and fun :D Regards, a fellow physician.

Thanks so much 😊

Benzedrine, or “Benny” inhalers were popular amongst the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac was a frequent user until he thought it exacerbated his phlebitis. It’s what fuelled his long, uninterrupted narrative he’d write for hours on end, the inspiration for his novel ‘On the road’. Not to advocate it’s use, of course!

You're brain compensated, that's great man, or woman, or cat, I like cats, they're cute🐈

I'm sorry that was done to you. I'm relieved to hear you appear to have made some kind of recovery/ life for yourself in spite of it.

@@felixhenson9926 well, if it wasn't "done" to her, she'd most likely be dead..... traumatic brain injury can often only be survived by removing the dead and/or too severly damaged tissue, not to mention the pressure build up caused by intracranial bleeding

@@felixhenson9926 TBIs can result from a lot of injuries, falls, car accidents, etc…the younger you are the better your brain will heal and make new connections in different areas to perform the same tasks you usually did and often young people with TBI heal and recover to normal or almost normal abilities….the older you are the less likely that is to happen and you are more likely to have more severe side effects…but yes this probably wasn’t “done” to her

@@stefanforrer2573 TBIs usually don’t require tissue to be removed. In the case of a tumor, then yes it would need to be removed but I highly doubt she had necrotic brain tissue lol

Bruh..... It's nitrous oxide. Idk how ppl wouldn't guess that, he's got tons of surgery shit and tranquilizers / anaesthetics are what he would have access to (plus a little bit of cocaine most likely)

Good question. At least in the UK, such a surgery seems confined to textbooks. I don't know anywhere in the country that offers such a procedure nor a psychiatrist that has ever recommended it 😊

For the most part it is for severe symptoms in which all treatments have been exhausted and the patient agrees to it or requests it. Another version, the lobectomy, is used to treat seizures in severe, medically resistant cases.

My thoughts exactly! I hadn't watched the show yet so I just went to look the scene up on Netflix. The gore is indeed mild but it still made me sick to my stomach. Not in a "can't handle gore"-kind of way, but in a "can't wrap my head around the fact that this isn't just tv fantasy but this ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO PEOPLE"-kind of way.

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge... and I knew we'd get into the rotten stuff pretty soon.

I had the same thought but it doesnt make sense with the stimulating effects that happened afterwards. Its TV tho so who knows 😂

I mean...most fields have dark backgrounds; most people just don't look into them. There are plenty of awful trends that I know of in (just to name a few): teaching and childcare, engineering, ALL branches of medicine, anything to do with finance, lots of large scale farming, most high fashion, criminal justice (obviously), construction, manufacturing, journalism... I'm guessing there was a dark and terrible trend in flint knapping that would cast a long shadow still, if we only remembered it.

From what I've read, the lobotomy did benefit a small minority of patients (which obviously doesn't justify it in any way), although what is probably more likely is that some of the functions of the frontal lobes were compensated for over time due to brain plasticity. There's an interview with a guy on KZfaq who had been subject to the transorbital lobotomy at age 11 (due to a stepmother who thought he was too rambunctious), and due to his young age at the time of the procedure he was able to recover, although he does describe lasting effects (and actually became more disinhibited after the procedure). In other words, the guy you met probably was able to live normally in spite of, rather than because of, the lobotomy.

That’s so cool.

It was successful for many people. 1/3 actually

@@Iceis_Phoenix Exactly!

@@Iceis_Phoenix I mean define success what did they actually "fix" ?

Even this was a lot longer till I deleted it.

Ohh my sick

I’m gonna be sick

Cute, you watched the Scientology video about psychiatry and took it seriously.

@@DominicNJ73 scientology video? This really happened and i learned about it from several sources including an autobiography by a man who freeman lobotomized when the guy was 12.

Sweetie..you're not on the "autism spectrum." Know how I know...autists don't go around saying they are autistic.

Ooooo that's so interesting. Do send me some resources if you can as I'd love to learn more about it

@@DoctorElliottCarthy Well, a lot of my research is unfortunately in swedish at the moment, but here are two articles in english that brings up the subject: * King, M., & Bartlett, A. (1999). British psychiatry and homosexuality. British Journal of Psychiatry * Beccalossi C. (2012). Female same-sex desires: conceptualizing a disease in competing medical fields in nineteenth-century Europe. Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences (I can also share that I at this point in time has gone through approximately 750 female journals and 50 male, and only found one outright containing homosexuality - in the male journals)

Nope. Nobels aren't rescinded.

Most likely but I’m not a lobotomy professional

That's a niche reference that I def had to Google 🤣

That's not true, I think you're thinking of Indica strains. Sativa strains tend to have a higher ratio of THC to the other CBDs and tend to have the opposite effects e.g. lethargy, sleepiness and sometimes even paranoia.

Bro did someone lobotomize *you*? There wasn't a fucking inhaler for THC, ppl barely got high from normal bud at this time.

Gabe RIGHT LMFAOO

Ewww...only losers use drugs.

Unfortuantely it was probably even more broad than that as not all distraction is due to ADHD. The fact that this stuff really happened to a lot of people makes it even more concerning

@@DoctorElliottCarthy - These days, antipsychotics are the “hot” treatment for ADHD, especially where children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are concerned.

Talking about the past and analysing it is the best way to try and prevent the same mistakes from happening again.

@@DoctorElliottCarthy You don't say!