What are some painful treatments of psychological disorders that are used or have been used in the past?
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Trephination (drilling a hole in the head) has been used to releive pressure on the brain and to let evil spirits out of the skull. A lobotomy is when the corpus callosum is severed. This bundle of nerves connects the two hemispheres. This method was once used for severe schizophrenia (I believe). People who have had this treatment can do things like draw two different pictures with each hand simultaneously.
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You're not describing mental illness.  You are describing assholism.\n\nMental illness is disturbed behavior in a specific, recognized pattern that is clearly identifiable and the same from person to person with the same disease.  More importantly, specific treatments tend to make the behavior better when applied to anyone who has been identified as having the specific mental illness.  The most common mental illnesses in society are depression, anxiety and eating disorders.  Clearly identifiable and reliably treatable are what identify mental illnesses.\n\nAssholism, on the other hand, is a moral issue.  The person is normal.  Problems are with attitudes, philosophies and beliefs.  Often, the person takes advantage of our overly cultured and non-violent society to get away with behaviors that 50 years ago would have resulted in him getting an extreme beating.  The best way to deal with this is to ostracize them.
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People who have fibromyalgia, panic disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and other anxiety-related problems have chronic pain because of tense muscles. The best therapy I know of is Yoga or Tai Chi. When you enroll in a class you will notice improvement rather quickly. Also, hot baths, low lights, candlelight, noise elimination will help. Good luck.
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a friend of mine was wrongly committed to an institution. he told me that the electric shock therapy that he received would render him unable to talk, he could hardly move afterwards, they woke him up every morning at 5 and strapped him to a chair and shocked him. His family would come to visit in the afternoon, he would sit in a chair unable to talk to them, unable to sit up straight, they would ask the doctors what was wrong with him, the doctor would shake his head, and they would walk away and cry and he would cry. \n\nI feel deeply sorry for anyone who has undergone this sort of thing.
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This takes a while to be removed... The most tradicional treatment is having sections with a psycho-terapist, combining with anti-depressive...
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time mostly.\n\nother than that, you can treat each of the symptoms to some degree, but not everything and not all at once.
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When looking into the PAST for treatment of ANY psychiatric illnesses, you won't find much. \n\nHistorically, the treatments for Bi-polar or any other psychiatric disorder included:\n1. Sanitariums. Locking people up for life without treatment of any kind. If you go back far enough you will find the "Ship of Fools". This was essentially a floating sanitarium where different towns and cities would park their "crazy" people and condemn them to a life of drifting from one port to another.\n\n2. Lobotomies. A lobotomy is a surgical procedure that consists of cutting the connections to and from, or simply destroying, the prefrontal cortex. These procedures often result in major personality changes. The use of the lobotomy was still in effect until the early 1970s!!! The use of the lobotomy was horribly abused over the years as a means of controlling specific people or populations. Read "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Glass Menagerie" for some interesting accounts.\n\n3. Thorazine. This drug became widely used in the 70's and is still used today. It is the chemical equivalent of a lobotomy. The phrase the "Thorazine Shuffle" came to describe the movements of patients taking the drug. Thorazine would so heavily sedate all of the brains functions so that a person on large doses could do little more than shuffle their feet and mumble their words.\n\n4. Electro-Convulsive Therapy, Insulin shock therapy and malarial therapy. All of these were used to induce seizures in the hopes of creating a "reset" button for the brain.\n\n5. Lithium came into use as a treatment for bi-polar in the 1960's and was a welcome change to the treatments listed here. Though Lithium is toxic, when administered and monitored properly has been very successful in treating bi-polar disorder.\n\nCurrently, new drugs are being discovered that treat bi-polar without the toxic side effects of Lithium. It's all trial and error since no one knows how or why Lithium or any current drugs work in terms of treating bi-polar. They just know it does.
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to cure our physical or mental disorders.
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http://www.jrhaule.net/TDfS.html\n\nhttp://www.theberries.ns.ca/ARchives/2001Fall/psychotherapy.html\n\nhttp://www.woodfish.org/bridge.html
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People who can't deal with life issues, often turn to food, drink and drugs to make the pain go away.  That's addiction.  Besides not turning to those things for comfort anymore, you do have to get therapy as well.  Learn how to handle life's problems without using things to numb the pain.  Because once the food, drugs and booze are gone---the problems are still there and usually worse.
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No cure yet exists, but symptoms are often treatable with various medications, behavioural therapy and alternative treatments. It should be noted that there is not any peer reviewed scientific evidence, yet, of success with "alternative therapies." Even results of behavioural therapy are unclear long-term, and are going to be studied on a well-designed TSA grant possibly starting in 2004.
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It's difficult to treat, but there are therapies (such as programs where you are locked in a very small maze and have to find your way out) that can help one overcome their fear.
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Emotional pain affects every part of you not just the body, it can alter our feeling about everything & change our life.\nEmotional pain scars out every feeling & emotion we have and can make life unbearable.\nEmotional anguish can also affect health from things like excema & psoriasis from stress to heart attacks and even suicide attempts.\nPhysical pain can be treated with painkillers or an operation emotional pain is much harder to fix, there is no short term solution even counselling & anti-depressants take a couple of months to start working
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Seems to me psychotherapy is going out of fashion as the drug companies become ever more powerful and steer western medicine on the path of pharmaceuticals rather than the much more healing approach of figuring out the basis for unwanted behaviors and then working toward changing them. Perhaps you could explore this theme. I mean, really....all these kids on psyche drugs? That can't be good....
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forget medication, they treat the symptom not the problem ... the best thing to do is learn relaxation techniques and put them to use if an attack comes on
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Psychological Issues in Pain Perception and Treatment in the Elderly
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yes, see a psychologist