#cw lobotomy

[feverc1imb]

“Operations on the brain are always risky. It's an exceedingly delicate organ and is easily damaged, often irreversibly.”

Source. (https://www.webmd.com/brain/what-is-lobotomy)

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[obosssania]

Matching piercings 💔

[weirdfreakshow]

My little contribution to lobotomite Jimmy ♡

[virtualgirladv]

Claire's lobotomy? pshh, how bougie. i did mine with a kit from aliexpress and my sister has never been happier

[astrofals]

lobotomy jimmy 😸on my mind. messilymade

[tiredsn0w]

I'm still thinking about a video I watched recently. Its creator said it would touch on anti-psychiatry, and I was looking forward to that.

I only realised it was supposed to be a 'content warning' after they had already said something along the lines of "psych wards are good, medication is good, you SHOULD take medication, and the goal of medication isn't to change your personality".

Classic example of schizospecs being excluded from mental health subjects, because maybe that's true for antidepressants and such, but antipsychotics? They can certainly help people, and be used as a coping tool, but they were invented as a chemical lobotomy. Physical lobotomies were practiced to turn schizophrenics into "pleasant house pets" (actual terminology used) and chemical ones, in my experience, aren't very different.

Also, while antipsychotics can be helpful sometimes, being prescribed them at a young age (11 or 12, for me) can permanently alter your brain's chemistry and cause you to have worse symptoms. These risks are rarely, if ever, explained to patients- I even had a psychotic friend be prescribed antipsychotics when she went in for sleeping medication, with zero explanation of what the medication was even for from the psychiatrist-- and universally pushing the idea of "meds good" is just untrue.

TL;DR: Psychiatry/mental health isn't just about anxiety and depression, please don't talk about it like it is.

[dozingdose]

an icepick through the eye

[kryptonbabe]

The lobotomy of Gears, Megatron's most heinous crime and the tyranny of the majority: an unnecessary socio-historical perspective of a Transformers episode

As I was watching Changing Gears, the 7th episode of the second season of The Transformers I was not expecting to be sucked into a black hole that took me to 20th century psychiatry, democracy criticism and minorities rights. And well, I just needed to put this out there, if nothing else to show how media can affect us in different ways, this was my personal Transformers journey of the day.

The episode revolves around Megatron's plan to remove the personality modulator of the Autobot Gears and use it in his evil sun draining machine, the details are not important, what matters is that Gears personality is fundamentally changed without the engine stolen, and his uptight and irritated personality, turned from this:

To that:

I don't think it's a long shot to understand this change of behavior as something very similar to the effects of the lobotomy treatment that was popular in 20th century psychiatry. This type of brain surgery is defined by the severance of the connections between the frontal lobe and the rest of the brain. "Often, the procedure made people quiet and docile, which they interpreted as a sign of success" - according to MNT. Which is exactly what happens to Gears without his personality modulator.

This is a Sylvia Plath dialogue with a lobotomized patient from her 1950s novel The Bell Jar. And Gears "perpetual marble calm". This excerpt came to my mind because that book along with a couple of movies made me (almost irrationally) scared of these kind of procedures when I was younger. By being underage (back then), depressed and gay I thought I was a perfect victim for invasive, radical ways of making me "normal". Times changed of course, but back then disabled people, the LGBTQ+, women and others with a "strange behavior" were the main targets for lobotomy.

When Ironhide sees Gears transformation from irritable runt to docile servant he is appalled, disgusted...

LOL

How dare Megatron turn Gears into that? Removing the agency and liberty of an individual while keeping them alive, Megatron was way out of line, right? However... by the end of the whole conflict, a complex moral twist takes place among the good guys, the Autobots, when Trailbreaker admits:

Here, Trailbreaker position is reminiscent of that of husbands who would approve of the docile behavior of their wives after the lobotomy surgery. Particularly in a time where women were expected to be calm, cooperative and attentive to domestic affairs. Also I hate the fact that Bumblebee calls that calm behavior "photovoltaic pussycat" because that sounds cool, but in that case it's terrible, stop trying to make debilitating procedures cool Bumblebee! This interaction quickly took me to some dark places, a place where your loved ones can choose how you should behave, a place where you have no choice but to conform to a social expectation, making others lives easier while turning you into a limited being. Maybe not the place where the writers of this kid's tv show wanted to take their audience, I'm aware, but regardless, that's where I ended up, for a while.

They vote and decide to keep Gears without his personality modulator, and Prime agrees:

With this sentence Optimus perfectly synthesizes the concept of majoritarianism in the way of perpetrating the tyranny of the majority. "If the majority rules, what is to stop it from expropriating the minority, or from tyrannizing it in other ways by enforcing the majority's religion, language, or culture on the minority?" (Oxford Dictionary). In that case, Gears had his rights to keep his behavior and personality removed from him by a democratic rule. That reminds us that democracy as a political system is not without its flaws. If the majority agrees on it, does that make it immediately a right or good decision?

Luckily Gears interferes, with a threat that sounds both violent and vague at the same time, a nice touch of writing for a kid's show:

Never change Gears, nothing wrong with a little threat of violence to guarantee your rights to be your own person.

After his threat the Autobots listen to Gears, respect his wishes and Prime just gives his personality modulator back, after that they all laugh!

And honestly... I think they're happier with Gears just the way he always were, grumpy and irritated, but his true self, look at their smiling faces!

At the end of the day this episode's moral is probably: Hey kids, if they're not evil, accept your loved ones for who they are. Let's keep lobotomy procedures in the past and learn to respect our differences based on our deeply flawed history. At least, that's my, admittedly, very specific take on it...

I know this episode took me places and reminded me of old fears and thoughts I didn't have for a while, but it felt good to organize and share these ideas. Thanks for reading it.

[mandyposting]

HEAD CASE

[your-local-vox-enjoyer]

I was thinking of having voxs human form (before he died) have a lobotomy scar to reflect the broken antenna, because 1. there was an attempted surgery, but they decided not to go through with it after messing up, leaving him with only a deep incision and 2. I think his antenna connect to his brain/brain-like organ (in his hell form I mean) and that would be cool symbolism

[cullee-for-beforan-culling]

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== Hm. We are not the most uncommon, sometimes mistaken for cuspbloods, though. Certainly not common. I am stronger than a goldblood would be in my situation, and before the organ was removed, I had limited psionics which manifested more as... a taser than anything flashy. I could charge my husktop. ==

[januscorner]

Medical abuse and the historical treatment of disabled people is so funny!/sarc

But seriously fuck lobotomy jokes

[wcghosts]

stupid fucking charles leclerc doodles + one w carlos in it. uh cw lobotomy under the cut. i drew these all in a 12 hour car trip so i was in a moving car. no judgement pls.

idk if there is even much of a fandom for f1 artists on here but i have very stylized art so i doubt this is gonna get much.

also the og for the c2 one right here!

[thr4shit]

Remembering this one time in an art class or something where we had to make a collage piece from magazine pictures with a theme important to us. And we saw this picture of a dude getting a lobotomy(? I think) in one of the magazines, and we just went "Him. He's mine. He is part of the collage. I don't know what I'm doing with him, but he's part of the collage."

[worm-f00d]

[syscultureis]

plural culture is having certain physical/mental changes from specific headmates

whenever i front (and in innerworld) i show certain behaviors that match some effects of a lobotomy to a certain extent </3

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