KilroywasNOTHere
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Here's the thing, Lobotomy actually seemed to pacify the worst cases of mental illness on which it was used and made them easier to handle (remember, this was practiced when we still has asylums). Add on that at the time the "experts" on the Human Brain were all saying it was harmless and the appropriate treatment and that this was long before the American Expert class had destroyed it's credibility with half the country's population. Finally, because this was done to people who were mainly in asylums there was a certain "out of sight out of mind" aspect to it for the common person and for people working IN the asylum it made their jobs easier. Thus it was easy to go along with it despite the horror.
Likewise for many families with so-called "trans" kids they already have other mental health issues that make them harder to deal with. The "experts" are telling the parents not only that this will help them but that if they do not their child WILL commit suicide (and no parent wants to see their child kill themself). This is often enough, but then for left wing parents you add in the social prestige they get by having trans children (and this doesn't stop even when they're minors, accepting your adult male son in his 30s coming out as trans still gives you prestige on the left). Also, again, note that much of the trans stuff began BEFORE Covid and the subsequent immolation of expert trust in the US... I suspect part of the rising backlash against it is due to that loss of trust too because people are reevaluating many things the experts told them and are finding them lacking in evidence.
See and stuff like the above is what makes me question the credibility of Asylums and the field of mental health. Now obviously mental health IS a thing and desperately needs to be taken seriously but so much of it seems to revolve around pushing pills and messing with parts of the body we've only scratched the surface of the inner workings of. The brain and hormones are so deeply intigrated into the body you can't mess with them without creating a cascade of other unintended effects. Not only that (And I will admit that this is antidotal on my part) but it seems like most mental health issues are brought about by various stress triggers and rather than deal with the root cause of those stress triggers, we just try to alleviate the symptoms which not only does not fix the initial problem it creates a bunch of unintended side effects that compound with the root problem, making things worse.