Many of the people who were lobotomized were untroubled by the results. According to John B. Dynes and James L. Poppen in their 1949 American Medical Journal article “Lobotomy for Intractable Pain,” after patients were operated on, “they never admitted they were mentally depressed and at no time did they show grief or shed tears.”12 However, all of the patients that Dynes and Poppen surveyed who before their lobotomies had been classified as “normal” or in some cases in an “anxiety state” were afterward classified as “retarded” or “euphoric” (which, as far as I can tell, meant “mentally
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So, no depression, but also qualities of sociopaths?
