Early Electroconvulsive Therapy

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  • I don't care what anyone says, this is brutal. if it helps it is either because the patient to fear the shock so much that the don't report their symptoms or it damages the brain to the point that it forgets it's depressed. Either way its brutal, wrong, and downright disgusting in my opinion. most of these people are deemed "Mentally ill" and FORCED into laying down on a bed while 480 (thats what they now use) volts are passed through their brain. Talk about torture...

  • Horrible!!!

  • THIS IS CALLED AMERICA FOLKS!!! NO DIFFERENT THAN THE DAYS IN THE DEATH CAMPS OF GERMANY LIKE DOCTOR MENGLA TO PERFORM SUCH BARBARIC ACTS ON HUMAN BEINGS!!! TO ALLOW THIS IS NOTHING SHORTER THAN WHERE GERMANY LEFT OFF & FOR THIS COUNTRY TO ALLOW THIS MAY GOD DEAL WITH ALL THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE PERFORMING SUCH ACTS ON HUMAN BEINGS!! IT'S CALLED TORTURE & MURDER PEOPLE WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • The brain still goes through the same torture, we just give muscle relaxants so the patient doesn't break any teeth or overexert and so it looks less traumatizing

  • @rosslittle yes, but the technology they use is better than it used to be

  • @Gagaloopony What are you talking about? You're right it does help some people with depression, but it is a bit like taking a steam roller to a walnut and saying some nuts are cracked. And how is it less primitive? It's exactly the same principal - ie. passing an electric current across the brain induces a seizure in the patient and... well... that's it.. clinicians don't know why it works. Oh, and it is still widely used all over the world.

  • Actually, though it seems barbaric, electroconvulsive therapy has been shown to help treat some people who suffer depression. Of course it's very rarely used today, only if no other treatments work. And it's much less primitive than it was back in the day.

  • ECT is only used as a very last resort these day so is extremely rare.

  • I wonder why the nurse is putting the bite guard in their mouth's after they get shocked wouldn't it be easier to do that before the shock?

  • it is still used to this day. its very effective against depression.

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