scarabesque:basedbustybrobdingnagianbazongas:tfc2211:amongoloid-sus:congenitaldisease:At the age of
scarabesque:basedbustybrobdingnagianbazongas:tfc2211:amongoloid-sus:congenitaldisease:At the age of 12, Howard Dully was subjected to the unnecessary procedure of a lobotomy, thanks in part to his stepmother, who couldn’t handle a normal pre-teen boy. Dr. Walter Freeman, the man behind the disturbing practice of lobotomies, claimed that Howard had childhood schizophrenia and claimed a lobotomy would cure him of such. However, when other doctors that have seen him never came to that diagnosis. It has taken Howard decades to recover from the surgery. He lived his life in institutions, he was incarcerated, homeless and became an alcoholic. He eventually sobered up and went on to get a college degree. He has since researched what happened to him and has even written his memoirs, with the help of Charles Flemming, and turned it into a book titled “My Lobotomy.” He is now a talk show host on National Public Radio, where he speaks to other lobotomy victims.“The science is settled” https://lobotomy.umwblogs.org/howard-dully/Between the years of 1958 and 1959, Lou attended nursing training at the local college. Her exposure to the medical world allowed her to theorize that mental illness afflicted Howard. He would later remark that “one of the first ones [theories] was that I had an extra chromosome.” By 1960, Lou took Howard to see six psychiatrists. Their independent agreement that Howard was “normal” and that “the problem in the house was her” did not please Lou.In the last section of the memoir, entitled “One Last Word”, Dully compared his lobotomy to young children today who are diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder without a second opinion, and are subsequently medicated with powerful medications. -- source link