A major international survey of people receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has found that most patients are not asked about the childhood adversities or recent life stressors that they believe ...
Most people receiving shock therapy for mental problems haven’t received any counseling Only a third of electroconvulsive therapy patients said they’d been asked about childhood traumas or recent ...
Electroconvulsive therapy [ECT] involves administering electricity to the human brain, under general anaesthetic, in order to cause grand mal convulsions. A typical course of ECT involves six to 12 ...
Dolores Orrico watched her psychiatrist flip a switch and turn a knob. She stared hard as adjustments were made to the machine that’d soon send her into a seizure. She was lying in a bed on the second ...
Only a third of electroconvulsive therapy patients said they’d been asked about childhood traumas or recent stresses Most felt these events likely contributed to their mental state, but were not ...
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