Electro Convulsive Therapy ?

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• ECT
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• torture
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• Antonin
• Artaud
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[datatuvok]

NYY

[montjoss]

What do you mean by " NYY " ?

[aliaspetrus]

this is a text written and read by Antonin Artaud, french poet, actor and painter.

[montjoss]

You are right Aliaspetrus, actually as many other at the time, Artaud has been tortured by the ECT method...

[cghslp]

This is a silly montage of photos of real and imaginary ECT pictures from the internet. Boring is the word. The nurses rolling babies out toward the end is lame.

[montjoss]

Thank you for watching the whole video.

[photo986]

Speaking if ECT did you know that the CIA had a secret brainwashing program called MKUltra they paid a Dr Cameron in Montreal to carry it out using ECT 80 times stronger than what was considered acceptable he injected LSD and put people into weeks of sleep as a brainwash tape played I was on of the victims I am telling my story under youkilledyourmother

[vtn32]

Could anyone please name the text Artaud was reading?

[nutmeg169]

And as for "juggalofatkid's comment about it working because of 'hope' that's bullshit too or else the pills and therapy and groups and hospitals would have helped me cause i had hope for all of them too!

[nutmeg169]

I agree this video is bullshit and 'juggalofatkid' is full of shit, it is humane. I'm in the middle of a treatment course atm, and while not pleasant it is definitely NOT awful.

This video disgusts me as it may put people off potentially life saving treatment, as not all depression can be 'cured' with pills.

[affectivity]

Why were you denied treatment when you were depressed? Because you wouldn't give consent? Although I disagree with your take, I'm glad to hear that you asked questions of your doctor, and when he didn't answer your questions, you did what I would have done if I had a choice. People, especially psychiatric patients who don't need hospitalization, should be persistent with their doctors, especially if what's been tried before hasn't worked. Even just looking at meds, there are a lot of options.

[affectivity]

Ragdolldna, what you say makes sense. This video does seem to be an impressionistic piece, designed to disturb, rather to educate or enlighten, and not a documentary.

[juggalofatkid17]

When the results for ECT's success rates have to be influenced by outside factors to convince patients of false hopes for their healing, there is problem. As a person who has witnessed the "therepy" first hand as well as been denied this treatment because i had questions for a top ECT doctor in the united states that he was not allowed to answer, i would have to say that ECT is elusive, risky & cosmetically remodeled to appear better. At least your at a cognitive state to feeling when depressed.

[affectivity]

So you don't have any pain, or break any bones, or even remember the treatment. Sorry, but that DOES sound humane to me. You say the effects are brutal, but give no specifics. And just because we don't know why it works doesn't mean that there is no reason. If we don't know the reason, that doesn't mean there isn't one. ECT may look scary to people who've never seen it done, but depression is a thousand times worse.

[affectivity]

Wow, could it get any more sensational?

This video was designed to exploit people's ignorance and fear of ECT. I mean, come on! The music, the ominous-sounding narrator ("Electroshock! Electroshock! Electroshock!")

ECT saved the life of someone in my family. I knew a couple of people who've had it in the last 10 years or so, and they didn't remember the treatment, but for whatever reason it helped them. But this video is baloney.

[PsychoTropica]

Scary shit