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Electro convulsive therapy is still routinely performed when pharmaceutical options have been exhausted, and damaging the brain is the intent.

I went through a few rounds myself in modern day America where we pride ourselves in not being barbarians. The first time I did not even consent, my spouse did it for me (in the 80s). To this day I never fully recovered. And yet if I complain people will just point to "studies" that say it works. Guess what, such studies also existed for lobotomy.