Mental illness is a scary thing mainly because no medicine can cure it. People around someone with mental illness can go through so much pain and sufferings as they are confused to how they should be dealing with it. Portuguese Prof. Egas Moniz found a way that could possibly 'cure' or at least reduce the violent behavior that some mentally ill patients possess, which is by cutting the fiber to the prefrontal cortex. In a layman's term, he severe a connection that is located at the front part of our brain to pacify a person's actions.

Lobotomy was basically a guess work - people didn't have enough technology that would allow them to get a precise look into the head and pinpoint the exact location they should go. Doctors would not be using anesthesia, but jolt patients into unconsciousness and proceeds to stab their brain with an ice-pick through the small gap in the eye socket.

Let's not forget that Freeman, the most famous lobotomist believer, had not surgical training as he performed thousands of lobotomies on mainly people who couldn't give proper consent. And here are the pictures of the supposedly 'better' patients.

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