Shock: Electroconvulsive Therapy

Trailer. Shock: Electroconvulsive Therapy (404) This series,

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Education

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• Shock
• Electroconvulsive
• Therapy
• depression
• bipolar

[bedtimesleepytime]

Remember a life of pain or feel better. Seems like an easy choice to me.

[poopoopanties]

The creepy music doesn't help. ECT is an effective therapy that's been distorted by media!

[aspen47]

@dfowler351976 I'd be more than happy to help you with your stories if you want. I just had two, only two, but I would rather die than have another one. I have been left vulnerable, my memory barely last a minute, I feel like my soul has been taken from me. Miracle? Maybe for some. I'm leaning more towards lawsuit.

[dazybaby]

hmmm... most of you guys who are commenting negatively on ECT are citing or giving examples or ECTs done a few decades ago... you do realize it isn't done the same way at all anymore, do you?! And that most of the time the side effects from the ECT are short lasting? And that in many instances psychotherapy (antidepressants and others) have more side effects than ECT?

[1107deedee]

I finished my treatment of 12 ECT's today. It saved my life. I am a British (living in Canada) 42 year old mother of two small girls who was suicidal. I have had NO adverse side effects from these procedures apart from a little SHORT TERM memory loss and confusion. Please do not comment negtively unless you have been through this treatment and it didnt work for you. Millions are helped by having it. It is NOT barbaric. Far from it.

[logeezie876]

Unless you've had ect dont speak on its effectiveness,i assure you theres many more success stories then stories of people dieing or suffering permenant memory loss.DO YOU REALLY THINK COUNTIRES LIKE THE U.S,CANADA AND THE U.K would let something that you people say is so harmfull continue, no they wouldn't and if your argument is that its a billion dollar industry then please dont even comment back.

[mrtomtomparis75]

the doctors who do or advocate this practice that are fucking criminals, should be judged and sentenced to death. Or even worse, sentenced to the slow and pathethic endlife they inflict the people they shock.

[XavierAtriedes]

There is $3 billion in ECT/Sledgehammer therapy.

[vgoth100]

@dfowler351976 woah, i am not a doc, far from it. I am a lowly English lit major who happens to have some relatives who have had ECT in the 50s-60s, and they are now dead. I also have relatives who have such severe depression that they are agreeing to ECT. I also have my mother and father who believe in protection over the real fact that they were both lied to and verbally/physically abused in childhood. Merry xmas.

[dfowler351976]

if anyone wants real studies, patient stories of years of memory loss, deaths from ECT, you can message me, I have a vested interest in exposing the lies, misinformation, including knowing they now "shock" the mentally retarded and dementia patients who have no way of informed consent, do you see? I thought Michelle bachman was crazy at her vaccination beliefs, although I hate her personally I happen to understand even the people who you think are on your side, often lie as well.

[dfowler351976]

@dfowler351976 it's shocking the brain ok? my father an electrical engineer was duped because the ECT docs don't tell the volts current, joules, or raw energy, it's enough to light a strong light bulb, the scientologists may sound crazy, but they also happen to be right. One thing I've learned is not to blindly trust doctors, or people in authoritarian positions, they frequently LIE, this is not B.S. doctors lie, human beings are corrupt as hell...ECT is being "phased out"