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TIL Insulin shock therapy was used as treatment for schizophrenia. Scientists believed it could jolt the brain out of mental illness or induce the restoration of the normal function. In reality the treatment caused brain damage and a "loss of tension and hostility" that was viewed as therapeutic.

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