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Pearl Jam's song Jeremy is based on the real-life classroom suicide of Jeremy Wade Delle of Texas, who was released from a mental hospital and sent back to school -- reportedly, once his insurance money ran out he was deemed "cured" .

A Canadian province had a "Sexual Sterilization Act" from 1928-1972. Almost 3000 sterilizations were performed on minorities and women who were deemed "mentally defective." In 1995 a sterilized women was awarded almost $1 million for her humiliation at being wrongfully labeled as a moron.

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1. 'euphemism treadmill' a process in which a correct term is eventually perceived as an insult. For example, mental retardation which replaced a term deemed as offensive, is now viewed as politically incorrect and has been replaced by intellectual disabilities.

2. Walter Jackson Freeman II, a psychiatrist who, in the 1950's, traveled the country performing $25.00 ice-pick lobotomies to mentally ill patients. He traveled in a van deemed the "lobotomobile".

3. From 1928-1972, Canada performed compulsory sterilisations on nearly 3,000 people deemed mentally deficient. This was on the basis of scientific claims linking "feeble-mindedness" to social issues.

4. During the second fight between Lennox Lewis and Oliver McCall (1997), McCall stopped fighting in the 4th and 5th rounds and broke down in tears. The fight was stopped, McCall was "deemed mentally ill," and he spent a while in a Virginia psychiatric ward.

5. William S. Burroughs enlisted in the United States Army in 1942 but was released after being deemed unfit due to mental issues.

6. Annelise Michel, who's death from exorcism depicted in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, was deemed mentally ill and not possessed by the Vatican eight years after her death.

7. The American Psychiatric Association classified Homosexuality a mental illness until 1974; it was deemed not to be a mental illness by a vote of APA members who feared of political uproar. The change was political, and wasn't based on any science.

8. One of the first groups to be targeted for eradication by the Nazis was the mentally ill, who were deemed 'life unworthy of life'

9. An Englishman who in 2003 brutally beat one man, murdered a woman, and then stabbed and disemboweled her son after chasing him to a playground full of witnesses. After spending 8 years in mental health facilities, he was deemed mentally sound and was released in 2011.