Why Schizophrenia no longer has to be a life sentence
Until the 1950s, a diagnosis of schizophrenia was often a life sentence. There was no effective therapy and many painful experimental treatments.
It wasn’t that long ago, that people with schizophrenia arrived at a mental hospital in the back of a police car or ambulance and never left.
Those were dark days and until the 1950s a diagnosis of schizophrenia was often a life sentence. There was no effective therapy and many painful experimental treatments, from brain surgery to sulphur injections, failed.
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