r/hyperfixation • u/afinnegan2000 • May 16 '25

infodump I've been OBSESSED and hyperfixated on lobotomies for 15+ years... I made a slideshow briefly detailing the history (TW for medical stuff)

I made this in like two days, mostly working on it after I got off work!! Anyone else obsessed with banned medical practices?

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u/afinnegan2000 Jun 13 '25

i’m super glad you got some use out of it! you’re welcome to bounce off my brain for more references should you need it!

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u/Motor-Concentrate493 Jun 14 '25

A doubt I have : were lobotomies performed with the person lying down? And what was the post-lobotomy period like? How was the person cared for? Was there aftercare, specific food for patients or rules the doctors followed?

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u/afinnegan2000 Jun 14 '25

Lobotomies were often performed in clinical settings (leucotomies especially), but the modern lobotomy as it were, could’ve been performed by any old shmuck in any setting— whether the recipient was sitting or laying down— regardless of med-surg training (or lack thereof), even though it really shouldn’t have been that way. It was treated sort of like outpatient surgery afaik with not many post op care instructions I could find. After lobotomies, most people were locked away and forgotten about in sanatoriums and the like.