Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!The half-abandoned remains of the Central State Hospital in Georgia are open for tours after capturing the attention of urban explorers and ghost hunters for years.The institute originally named, Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded in 1842 and became notorious as one of the largest in the world, with over 12,000 patients by the 1960s.Unfortunately, as was the case for many mental health hospitals post-World War Two, the hospital struggled for funding to keep going and staff had very little understanding of mental health resulting in brutal patient treatment.Doctors wielded the psychiatric tools of the times—lobotomies, insulin shock, and early electroshock.
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