Can you really cure your mental illness by electrifying your brain?

Before the discovery of psychotropic drugs in the 1950s and 1960s, the prospects for the treatment of mental diseases were really bleak. At that time, there were only three types of treatments available-electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), insulin coma and psychiatric surgery. As a result, many patients have been imprisoned in psychiatric hospitals all their lives, while others are in [infinite reincarnation]-once discharged from hospital, they will not be able to live a normal life, will become ill again, and will soon be hospitalized again. Insulin-induced epilepsy for psychosis? Researchers found that for patients suffering from both schizophrenia and epilepsy, when epilepsy symptoms worsen, mental symptoms will be relieved. In the 1930s, a Hungarian doctor tried to alleviate schizophrenia by inducing seizures, Read More …