Psychiatric Convulsive Therapy

Graphic Footage Showing The Administration Of 3 Convulsive Treatments Including,

Electro-convulsive Therapy

Once a commonly used - and controversial - treatment for a variety of mental problems, ECT still bears a stigma despite advances which have made it far safer and more effective.
ECT involves placing electrodes on the temples, on one or both sides of the patient's head, and delivering a small electrical current.

The aim is to produce a seizure lasting up to a minute, after which the brain activity should return to normal.

Patients may have more than one treatment a week, and perhaps more than a dozen treatments in total.

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[damnatureufkdup]

@ColibriAnna08...I agree with you! I once had a bird crash into our picture window and he/she died. I then observed the mate flutter around the dead bird for close to 20 minutes! The mate swooped low; perched on the ground next to the dead bird (several times); look at the dead bird; PECK at the dead bird while quizzically turning its head side to side....elephants and monkey's don't take the cake when mourning a loss. Birds, with brains the size of a pistachio nut (maybe smaller) do too!

[slusher545]

this is horrible. those images of people convulsing are gruesome

[ColibriAnna08]

@NevermindTheGame Once again, you are ignorant of animal psychology or behavior. Animals do suffer emotional pain and mental disorders including separation anxiety/depression. Please do some damn research before you make unverified claims. Wild animals like elephants and monkies have constantly been observed grieving over the loss of their young and continuing to call for them for days after their death.

Don't be so egotistical as to declare humans are the only thing that can feel.

[NevermindTheGame]

@ColibriAnna08 So to make a long answer short, animals used for tests do not have or have very low EI/EQ. Meaning they can only feel physical pain, and do not suffer mentally (so in this case pain is a physical reaction).

And as for using humans as test subjects whether they are mentally retarded or not, is wrong in a social standing and should not be brought to practice, for it's social indication. However, bring those two aside and it may be actually even more successful than animal testing

[NevermindTheGame]

@ColibriAnna08

Yes. Some mentally unstable people also have very low EI, depending on what they are suffering from. These humans are, by nature, inferior. They are a nature's default. I know it's a very cruel and inhumane thing to say. However, these humans are only living their life because of modern technology. And even so, there are enough individuals wishing and asking their doctors whether they can end their lives.

[NevermindTheGame]

@ColibriAnna08 Quite frankly, I did and it specifically depends on what animal you're talking about. Rats, for example, do not have emotional intelligence. Neither do monkeys; yes, they can feel pain, fear and anger. Basically they can feel any primitive emotional instance. However there's a vast difference between those two emotional interpretations.

So an animal may or may not feel pain during a test, or whatsoever, but he will never, in his life come to realize what exactly is happening.

[ColibriAnna08]

(cont.) While we're at it, why don't we let people with mental retardation be used as test subjects due to their inferior intellect. Do I have to go on, or do you know realize the insipidity of your post?

"humans have emotional quotient, animals don't." My guess is you know nothing about zoology or animal behavior. Animals have emotions and the capacity to feel wide ranges of them just like humans do. Do some damn research.

[ColibriAnna08]

@NevermindTheGame Absolutely silly. Are you animal? How can you claim to know what they feel? As far as I know, there is nothing special about a human's brain or nervous system that causes them to feel emotional and physical pain more acutely than animals. Pain is pain. As for being inferior in intellect, why is that a justification? Animals like pigs are as intelligent as a 5-year-old child. Should 5-year-old children be test subjects because of their inferior intellect?

[NevermindTheGame]

@atm507 that's not the point, animals are inferior in intellect and relatively less important in general than a human. the lifespan of most animals are shorter as well. also they tested (probably), the most on sheep, and hamsters or other ease-to-breed animals...

imagine if they start using humans as test subjects (which they did and still do), it would be torture by it's definition. humans have emotional quotient, animals don't.

[mamby101]

I would hate to have lived 100 years ago. The medical community was so barbaric! I'm glad to know it has changed drastically.