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Momma tries to remember what her father did for a living in Winnie, Texas. An oral history of The Depression era series.
Momma tries to remember what her father did for a living in Winnie, Texas. An oral history of The Depression era series.
Tags: depression era, papa, pawpaw, family history, kinfolk, marquisdejolie, momma
Yeah, electroshock in the "old days" has damaged lives, permanently.
ReplyDeleteSome psychiatric doctors experimented on patients, like guinea pigs.
Anecdotally, I've seen the short-term memory shot in survivors of such electroshock. How they work, when they have trouble carrying a conversation, baffles the mind. And they have trouble learning new things, since, again, their short term memory is strongly involved with learning. Hard to learn a new trade that way...
And of course, hallucinations are a challenge to daily functioning too.