The truth about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - Helen M. Farrell
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Date: 2020-08-22
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Ozamataz
So you people actually want to shoot the electricity comparable to what is needed to drive an industrial printing press through your brain!
The reason this modern ECT doesnt look as bad as it did in the 50s and 60, is because you receive a strong paralyzing agent like succinylcholine, frequently used on death row inmates as a lethal injection.
This is a drug that paralyzes almost every part of the body including the lungs but not the heart.
That is why you as opposed to the unfortunate death row prisoners receive oxygen during the treatment.
That is also why people are not squirming, screaming and breaking their spines during these seizures, they simply cannot they are paralyzed.
The mild electrical impulse this quack is talking about is actually an amperage about 150 times higher than what comes out of your wall socket at about 0. 800 ampere as opposed to about 0, 006 ampere in a normal home socket.
Considering that ampere measures the strenght of an electric current it doesnt take a genius to figure out what that does to your brain.
It literally fries it, evidenced by the frequent side effects of memory loss, confusion, brain damage and even suicide.
So basically there is a good chance to become a walking vegetable from ECT.
But dont take it from me, do your own research people. Stay safe.
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So you people actually want to shoot the electricity comparable to what is needed to drive an industrial printing press through your brain!
The reason this modern ECT doesnt look as bad as it did in the 50s and 60, is because you receive a strong paralyzing agent like succinylcholine, frequently used on death row inmates as a lethal injection.
This is a drug that paralyzes almost every part of the body including the lungs but not the heart.
That is why you as opposed to the unfortunate death row prisoners receive oxygen during the treatment.
That is also why people are not squirming, screaming and breaking their spines during these seizures, they simply cannot they are paralyzed.
The mild electrical impulse this quack is talking about is actually an amperage about 150 times higher than what comes out of your wall socket at about 0. 800 ampere as opposed to about 0, 006 ampere in a normal home socket.
Considering that ampere measures the strenght of an electric current it doesnt take a genius to figure out what that does to your brain.
It literally fries it, evidenced by the frequent side effects of memory loss, confusion, brain damage and even suicide.
So basically there is a good chance to become a walking vegetable from ECT.
But dont take it from me, do your own research people. Stay safe.
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Shoshona
I had 2 rounds of 12 treatments between 2017 and 2018. I was hospitalized during the entire time. I've lost months of memory, still have problems with short term memory and some long term memory. It has increased my anxiety. It did not help me at all. 7 months after getting my last treatment I was in ICU after my mom found me on the floor from attempting suicide again. I have seen how it has helped many people and its very upsetting to me that it did not work. My schizoaffective disorder has not changed and like I previously stated it increased my anxiety. I don't remember being in the hospital during this time or months before. I was hospitalized for the entire summer of 2017. They just kept moving me from psych ward to psych ward until they started ECT. If it works for some I think that is excellent but not everyone's experience is the same
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I had 2 rounds of 12 treatments between 2017 and 2018. I was hospitalized during the entire time. I've lost months of memory, still have problems with short term memory and some long term memory. It has increased my anxiety. It did not help me at all. 7 months after getting my last treatment I was in ICU after my mom found me on the floor from attempting suicide again. I have seen how it has helped many people and its very upsetting to me that it did not work. My schizoaffective disorder has not changed and like I previously stated it increased my anxiety. I don't remember being in the hospital during this time or months before. I was hospitalized for the entire summer of 2017. They just kept moving me from psych ward to psych ward until they started ECT. If it works for some I think that is excellent but not everyone's experience is the same
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Mia
I was in an ECT procedure and I dont know what happened but I woke up in the middle of the ECT, and I could see the doctors looking down on me and I couldnt move or breathe and I started to panic. It was the scariest feeling. Then I saw them roll me out to the recovery room and I was hyperventilating by this time and the nurse kept telling me I needed to calm down. I was so scared and eventually calmed down but idk why that happened and I was so scared I didnt go back for my last 3 appointments. I had over 15 treatments tho. But after that I was done.
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I was in an ECT procedure and I dont know what happened but I woke up in the middle of the ECT, and I could see the doctors looking down on me and I couldnt move or breathe and I started to panic. It was the scariest feeling. Then I saw them roll me out to the recovery room and I was hyperventilating by this time and the nurse kept telling me I needed to calm down. I was so scared and eventually calmed down but idk why that happened and I was so scared I didnt go back for my last 3 appointments. I had over 15 treatments tho. But after that I was done.
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An
I was hospitalized for SEVERE clinical depression in 1985 and 2003. On both occasions ECT worked well for me and I was able to return to my normal healthy life. My doctor in 1985 told me not to be surprised if sometime in the future I would need to come 'into the pit stop' for another round of treatment. He was right.
Depression plays tricks on our mind by telling us that the severe emotional PAIN will remain for the rest of out lives. Depression is a liar.
I was a crisis line volunteer for 2 years in the late 80's.
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I was hospitalized for SEVERE clinical depression in 1985 and 2003. On both occasions ECT worked well for me and I was able to return to my normal healthy life. My doctor in 1985 told me not to be surprised if sometime in the future I would need to come 'into the pit stop' for another round of treatment. He was right.
Depression plays tricks on our mind by telling us that the severe emotional PAIN will remain for the rest of out lives. Depression is a liar.
I was a crisis line volunteer for 2 years in the late 80's.
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Jessica
ECT destroyed what was left of my already TBI brain by a bunch of untrained unprofessionals at a private institution for depression and bipolar (which they misdiagnosed) and the establishment is now being sued and people are trying to get it shut down. I'm lucky that it didn't kill me.
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ECT destroyed what was left of my already TBI brain by a bunch of untrained unprofessionals at a private institution for depression and bipolar (which they misdiagnosed) and the establishment is now being sued and people are trying to get it shut down. I'm lucky that it didn't kill me.
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Aimee
This video really seems to downplay the number of cases of people who experience life changing memory loss and undergo ECT misguidedly because of misdiagnosis and end up having these side effects without any benefit.
It can be life saving for many, but devistating for many also.
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This video really seems to downplay the number of cases of people who experience life changing memory loss and undergo ECT misguidedly because of misdiagnosis and end up having these side effects without any benefit.
It can be life saving for many, but devistating for many also.
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Philipp
I am shocked by this animation!
My problem was not cured sustainably.
After many treatments I myself had to insist stopping it, due to horrible headaches and memory loss!
ETC is a money maker;
as so many other things in health care; unfortunately!
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I am shocked by this animation!
My problem was not cured sustainably.
After many treatments I myself had to insist stopping it, due to horrible headaches and memory loss!
ETC is a money maker;
as so many other things in health care; unfortunately!
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Yokocchi
My grandmother had to do this in her teenage years. She says she has chronic depression, and in her later years has tried to kill herself. I'm not sure if that treatment worked, she still takes meds to this day and is incredibly emotionally unstable.
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My grandmother had to do this in her teenage years. She says she has chronic depression, and in her later years has tried to kill herself. I'm not sure if that treatment worked, she still takes meds to this day and is incredibly emotionally unstable.
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fips001
isn't science about not trusting in anecdotal evidence? There are also people who have no more depression after taking LSD. The question is, is it safe and does it help the majority of patients. Not, did it help one or two individuals.
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isn't science about not trusting in anecdotal evidence? There are also people who have no more depression after taking LSD. The question is, is it safe and does it help the majority of patients. Not, did it help one or two individuals.
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