Posted by alexandra_k on June 6, 2015, at 15:52:26
In reply to Re: when did docs stop doing lobotomies?, posted by alexandra_k on June 6, 2015, at 15:43:51
Forensics. That is what we call the criminally insane. The prison / mental institution combo thing. At least that is what it is called in this part. The 'forensics ward'.
I think we give them depo shots of old generation anti-psychotics. Not entirely sure... But I think that is the idea. The chemical straightjacket / lobotomy thing. Seems... More humane... Somehow... To give an injection every couple of weeks. To keep things, uh, peaceful, that way.
I don't actually know.
A number of people in the non-forensics ward were managed that way. At least they were when I went through... But we are cheapo cheapo on the medications...
I remember when risperidol was new... and seroquel.... give them a different name and make it just that tiny bit harder for patients to read about the medications on the internet and so on, I suppose... Make us think we actually have something new instead of old technology... Let us discover it isn't all it's cracked up to be in our own good time...
I remember when people were getting special government approval for (government funded) clozapine. That was being hailed (by patients even if not the doctors who were prescribing them) as... Well... Hope... But also... Much of the good (chemical lobotomy) effects of the good old older generations. Don't know what's doing it for pharma and / or them these days...
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