In 1956, two years after the introduction of Thorazine, researchers reported that the drug caused psychosis, hallucinations, and increased anxiety.
Psychiatric drugs can sometimes cause the opposite effect from what they are supposed to.
To put it bluntly, I do not believe that we can scramble brains and expect to have anything left but scrambled brains. He concludes with an attack on doctors who criticize shock treatment and attaches a form to have patients sign when they consent to shock therapy. Media outlets could easily do better. Picking up the phone, we quickly reached two doctors in the San Francisco area who have been denouncing electroshock for more than 20 years. The manufacturers have admitted that they have never done studies on some of these devices for 20 years.