Did You Know The Removal Of Womens Wombs And Ovaries Were Used For the Treatment Of Mental Health, And The Practice Only Stopped In The US 1980?

[Sunrising]

Apparently In the US Hysterectomies or wandering womb surgeries, the removal of the ovaries, and clitoridectomies were regular operations by Physicians to treat hysterical or unmanageable behaviors.

The Women's Health movement in the 1970s stopped the widespread use of these operations and in 1980 the American Psychiatric Association ended this practice.

These operations were based on the Ancient Greek theory that a woman's uterus detached and floated around the body causing mental distress.

A. I didn't know about these operations.

B. I knew about these operations.

C. Something else.

[Anonymous]

Not suprised. My father and mother used to in the 1970s work as staff in a mental asylum and there. Was a giant facility.

There were a lot of people in there with serious mental health disorders but there were others there with none whats so ever. There were men and boys maybe put in because they were gay or because their father had left them a huge inheritance and they werent old enough yet. There were male and females put in there because theyd been raped by a relative and dared to speak of it to police. Females who got pregnant out of wedlock or to the wrong man. Some were only there for a year, some had litteraly been locked up for decades and forgotten and would die there.

There were patients who got pregnant or caught STDs somehow. One of these girls had accused her father (a prespeterian) of raping her and he got her committed and she was almost always sedated; hed come by every Sunday to read scripture to her. He was raping her. A few times she got pregnant and he brought the children home to his wife.

Then there was the lobotomy patients.

My parents said most of all this was going on and nobody asked questions or dared to. If you went to the police you'd be treated as insane and end up there drugged up or lobotomised.

[Opinion Owner]

There were men and boys maybe put in because they were gay or because their father had left them a huge inheritance and they werent old enough yet* to claim it and they had a greedy uncle or guardian who basically wanted to rob them so they got them permanently insutionalised or lobotomised and forgotten

[duntoldya]

It seems wild and crazy. But then you see women online raising millions for a mother who brutally strangled her children because she was sad, and going on a witch hunt to ruin the lives of men who had consensual sex with a hoe.

[Pterodon]

Did you know they still do electroshock therapy to people with major depression and frontal lobotomies were once in vogue?

[Sunrising]

I do know about electricshock therapy and it's another operation that should be consigned to the US evil practices of the past.

[Nikki1989]

Yes, but what is truly scary is that there are right-wingers in the USA who would like to bring such barbaric practices back.

[EmmaMary]

I most certainly didn't know of this barbaric act.

[slatyb]

Horrifying like so many things that have been done to women.

[sage2021]

I had no idea!

[queenofcardio]

I didn't know

[Paige2006]

Didn't know this

[NathanDavis]

yeah...