[jdietrich]

>Like lobotomies. What do people think of them now?

Lobotomy was in fact an effective treatment (albeit with extremely severe side-effects), but we now have much better and safer treatments available. The abandonment of lobotomy was fundamentally driven by the invention of effective antidepressants, antipsychotics and mood stabilisers. Neurosurgery is still offered to an extremely small proportion of patients suffering from very severe and treatment-resistant depression and OCD.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-advances/art...

[Razengan]

The discredited procedure that was banned in the Soviet Union before the United States? That was used disproportionately against women?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy

[undeveloper]

well, yes, it did work. the side effects are horrible, and often the disease was better than the cure, but it worked, similar to how being dead also is extremely effective for managing depression.

[Razengan]

Murder is a very successful cure to a lot of ailments.

[undeveloper]

I feel like you're not getting the very obvious implied point in that no one thinks lobotomy was good practice in retrospect

[Razengan]

The guy I replied to seemed to, after I mentioned lobotomies as an example of physical treatments for "feeling sad" that are now seen as barbaric.