Throughout history the mentally ill have been treated in various ways by society. In the past people did not have the knowlege that we have now and so they used very poor methods to cure mental illness. In 10,000 bc they believed mental illness was the result of a bad spirit, so they would bore holes into the skull to release the spirit.
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