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Inside America’s Forgotten Asylums: The Darkest Secrets of the 1940s
They were called patients… but treated like prisoners. In the shadows of America’s 1940s psychiatric asylums, unspeakable horrors unfolded behind locked iron doors. This video uncovers the true, chilling history of mental health treatment when science crossed the line into cruelty. From brutal electroshock therapy to unsanctioned lobotomies ...
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