What was the old treatment for schizophrenia called?!
Question: The old one where they used to poke a stick in past your eye.
Answers: The old one where they used to poke a stick in past your eye.
lobotomy
Get a life! You got too much time on your hands!
Labotimy
electro-shock treatment and insulin-shock treatment
I don't know about the stick one...
but I read about a man so violent they had to keep him restrained with chains, in a cemetery, to keep him away from others. He was cutting/gnashing his own body with stones and was tearing his own clothes. He was so violent that he kept breaking the chains they had to use to keep him restrained.
Back then they called the treatment, casting out of demons and Jesus was the one to do it.
It depends on how far back you want to go. Excerpts here from the link below (which is the history of schizophrenia):
"Fever therapy was one such treatment... often by injecting sulphur and oil, or causing abscesses.
Other failed but fashionable treatments included gas therapy, sleep therapy, insulin ther-apy, electroconvulsive treatment and lobotomies.
Chloral hydrate in 1869 and barbiturates in 1903 gave some
relief to the anxiety and sleep disturbances of psychotics but
did nothing for their hallucinations and other psychotic
symptoms.
The first antipsychotic medication came on the market in the
1950s. Chlorpromazine ... Within ten years of chlorpromazine hitting the market, over twenty other antipsychotic drugs were in the pipeline.
Clozapine was not a new drug; it had been around since the 1960s, but due to fears that it caused a severe blood
disorder-agranulocytosis, it did not hit the UK or US mar-
kets until 1990."