The 1960s brought about a new emphasis on the humanity of mental patients. The lobotomy was condemned as barbaric, and psychotropic drugs such as Thorazine replaced it. Although the heavy drugs administered in hospitals at this time weren't perfect (the "Thorazine shuffle" was a term used to describe the way people move around when they're on it) they were far more humane than electric shock or radical brain surgery, and they led to recovery for a greater number of people. Mental retardation received more specialized care. Drug rehabilitation and geriatrics programs were also added in the 1960s.
…was a school classmate and he and Bobby Penn got into a fight over Kay Gibbs. She was taking some extra thorazine while at BR’s and sketched this nude from a Playboy Magazine he had laying around. Kay had been given Mellaril while in the North Carolina Correctional Institute for Women. She was sleeping on the sofa but then threw the cushions on the floor and slept there for several months. She also took small amounts of Olanzapine when the Thorazine ran out. Kay was having visions of someone hitting her in the face with their fist with a towel wrapped around it. Kay also had a vision of being being dragged into another room and assaulted. Kay suffered from TMJ during this time, apparently because some writer told her to keep her mouth shut. Her jaw locked up so tight she ended up breaking one of her upper molars on the right.
Kay’s father was administered ECT treatments at Cherry Hospital in 1967 after he tried to cut her mother’s throat in a psychotic state.
She thought it was one of BR’s acquaintances who was having problems and didn’t give it another thought until after she was settled in her own apartment. She had never heard of Billy Milligan but she does know quite a few Billies, not hillbillies either. There is a Billy Gibbs in her family, and a Willie Kay Gibbs her Uncle and Grandfather.
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