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Five people from the series Mysteries of Mental Illness talk about their struggles.
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Episode 1 explores ancient ideas of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry.
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What gave rise to the Eugenics program in the United States?
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For 8 years, Matthew Rosenberg has dealt with a debilitating form of OCD.
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Some 30,000 patients came through the Mississippi State Asylum, and many never left.
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A chemist accidentally created the psychedelic, LSD, while searching for new medications.
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Cynthia is turning to ECT, or Electroconvulsive Therapy, to manage her severe depression.
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How did prisons and jails become a frontline treatment for the mentally ill?
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Kirkbride's 'hospitals for the insane' were built for those who had nowhere else to go.
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Asylums were closed down, but the mentally ill are still being institutionalized.
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In 1936, neurologist Walter Freeman performed the first lobotomy in the U.S.
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Matthew Rosenberg is having deep brain stimulation surgery to help his OCD condition.
