A shoutout to the researchers who pioneered drugs and cleared them for commercial release like Thorazine's introduction in the mid-Fifties and Prozac in the later Eighties. Beforehand Thorazine, we had shock therapy, insulin shock therapy, lobotomies or just generally being locked away for any kind of thought, agitation or anxiety issues. Before we had Prozac, the first SSRI antidepressant, we had people hospitalized for depression, which is thankfully scarce nowadays. Granted, in the decades to come, Big Pharma will continue to crank out newer and more effective meds. Here a emotionally troubled patient is restrained in a specialty chair at the West Ridding Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK in 1869. This may be the UK, though the American versions were just as bad. Today is the 252nd anniversary of the opening of the first psychiatric hospital in the U.S. In the future, really within the next 5-10 years, it's likely that AI will be extensively used for talk therapy as long as the kinks get sorted out, and it may revolutionize most talk therapy. Recently, one AI chatbot, whose user was patently suicidal, taught the user how to tie a noose upon request, after which the person hanged himself with it. That's what the early days of the technology will be remembered for, but specific chatbots for effective therapy are already in the wings.