NPR Yesterday: My lobotomy

[lemon boy]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5014080

Powerful and moving.

[snow_slider]

Damn....

I couldn't imagine letting someone talk me into doing that to my kid. SO sad.

[Obstruction]

Sometimes stories on NPR keep me sitting behind the wheel in the driveway long after the ride is done, this one did.

Extraordinary story and individual.

[bklyn]

Heard it this morning.
It has been haunting me today.

I'm amazed that the doctor performed so many each day and that he later touted it as an outpatient procedure. Scramble your brains and then a taxi ride home.

It seems as if the narrator has not lost any of his faculties. I can't believe the father and the stepmother is pure evil.

[Dantheman]

Caught it on the way home yesterday, amazing. I couldn't believe his father's reaction when he showed him the picture of him with two ice picks stuck through his eyes, "Well gee isn't that something" (or something to that effect). You'd think seeing that would ellicit a little more emotion, maybe some remorse even

[mtbakerskier]

[QUOTE=bklyntrayc]Heard it this morning.
It has been haunting me today.

I'm amazed that the doctor performed so many each day and that he later touted it as an outpatient procedure. Scramble your brains and then a taxi ride home.

QUOTE]

Its even scarier that it wasnt that long ago that there was not any requirements in the medical fields to prevent something likes this from happening.

[iceman]

Lobotomies and electroshock therapy (which is coming back into vogue) damaged or destroyed the lives of thousands. They also improved or saved the lives of thousands. There is no way to tell whether the lobotomy in this instance was justified and it certainly sounds like it was not, but on the other hand the man seems to have lived a fairly normal life, so it is at least possible that it helped him.

All I am saying is don't be too quick to judge, sometimes things are deeper and more complex than they seem. To put it in broad strokes, would you rather be an emotionless zombie in the outside world or a screaming maniac in a locked-down mental ward? Neither is a good option, but which is better? I have no idea myself.

edit: heh, interesting topic for "The Padded Room"

[Clack]

Feel good thread of the day

[yogachik]

I heard it yesterday when working out - the NPR Most E-Mailed Stories of the Day is one of my regular podcasts. Yeesh, I could barely listen and yet I couldn't turn it off.

[jennifertalia]

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal....

[LAN]

I recently read an article about Mr. Dully. Apparently his psycho stepmom arranged the procedure because he was "acting out" after his real mother left/died (I don't remember which). Mr. Dully has led a relatively normal life, although he has admitted to being abusive to his former spouse. Definitely interesting stuff. Between his psycho stepmom and the procedure itself, it's hard to imagine he's not even more fucked up.