[Off-topic] Requests author discusses MentalHealthError exception

[Ian Kelly]

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a
>> MentalHealthError exception.
>>
>> http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-occurred
>>
>> Although the connection to Python is only quite slim, I found it fascinating
>> to read.
>
> I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I
> don't think they needed to drug him, and take all that he had learned
> away from him and turn him back into what he was before.

"All that he had learned" meaning his delusions and psychoses?