History of Mental Illness and Treatment

Originally posted on Running Toward Happy:

The history of mental illness may be a boring topic to some. To me, it is vastly important. I have often wondered how the mentally ill received treatment before the 1950s when anti-psychotic drugs were used. Since I was born in the 50s and had a mother with schizophrenia, I thank the company and its employees who introduced that drug. It affected me in a very positive way. It affected my mother when she would take the drug.

Below is a link to an article I found on the Historynetwork.com.

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