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by pawsforthought 1426 days ago
> you even sometimes got violence as "treatment."

For example, electroconvulsive therapy in its early days. To quote the Mayo Clinic [1]:

> Much of the stigma attached to ECT is based on early treatments in which high doses of electricity were administered without anesthesia, leading to memory loss, fractured bones and other serious side effects.

[1]: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsiv...