Is it cured?

           Some acts were performed on patients in hope of curing them of an illness. The question is, were they really cured? Or did the symptoms just disappear for a period of time? Acts such as performing a lobotomy on a person was used in hope of curing a person of their mental illness they had. If a person acted slightly off or did some unusual actions, the doctors concluded the patient needed a lobotomy. After recieving a lobotomy, the patient seemed to act more "normal" and less disruptive. The families and doctors of these patients believed they were finally cured because of the lobotomy. The patient kept this "normal" act up for a small period of time, but after a few months they were back to their old disorderly ways. By returning back to their ways, the patients proved that the lobotomy did not cure a patient of the disease, but only allowed the symptoms to fade out for awhile. Once the patients started to act up again, the doctors decided another lobotomy was needed to be performed. Sometimes a lobotomy was performed on a person three or four times if necessary. Though, they continued to perform this act on a person, the patient still returned back to their troublesome selves.
           Not only did a lobotomy prove to doctors and families that most of the acts performed on people could not cure them, other actions like shock therapy was also used to try and cure a person but failed. Even though these severe actions failed continuously, doctors kept trying to use them to help a patient. Doctors portrayed that these actions cured patients so it was a recommendation to help a person. To cure someone means giving them a successful remedial treatment for their disease. Stopping the symptoms does not mean the disease is gone, it just means for a period of time, the symptoms are not currently present. So by saying these treatments would cure the illness, the doctors lied to the patients and families.