Do you think its helpful or harmful? A couple of my friends were having a debate over it today at school.
2006-11-06 09:21:20 · 12 answers · asked by squirrelly_wrath05 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
I am living proof that ECT (electro shock therapy) doesn't work. If I knew then what I know now I would never have agreed to the 77 that I had performed. I was in such throes of depression that I trusted these pdocs and put my life and mind in their hands. The outcome is permanent loss of most of my long-term memory. Bits and pieces come back once in awhile, and my hubby helps with most of the 'olden days'. Although I have an excellent pdoc now, I see a scowl on his face whenever I mention the down side to ECT. Gee, wonder if he'd still be a doc with so many shock treatments under his belt.
Fortunately, I have climbed up the ladder to wellness after so many years of depression. I am slow at somethings sometimes, but for the most part am doing better than expected.
2006-11-06 10:59:20 · answer #1 · answered by been there, done that 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Electroshock can still be useful. The patient is put under and restrained beforehand. It is actually helpful in some extreme cases, but only as a last resort. The patient is under so it is not painful. We shock people whose hearts have stopped because it helps, if it helps with mental illnesses too, shouldnt it be okay?
Lobotomies should not and are not done. The idea of any psychiatric technique should be to help people lead a normal life. If you are lobotomized, you cannot lead a normal life.
2006-11-06 17:36:00 · answer #2 · answered by spiggyofdeath 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
i have seen electroshock therapy work very well for some cases. i have seen it work for young and old, however therapy, medication etc should be tried first electroshock treatments should only be used if all else fails. it also should be used with the persons consent. there are problems, sometimes with memory loss when a person has shock treatments, but this usually subsides. they do not do shock treatments as often now, because of the better medications. it is a very scary treatment for a person to go thru this and as i said may be used if all else fails lobotomies should never be used, and i believe they now are illegal.
2006-11-06 17:38:09 · answer #3 · answered by zeek 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the most part, these treatments are either harmful or ineffective. Their primary benefit is to make a patient easier for the staff to cope with. Only in the most minute percentage of cases is there any benefit to the patient that cannot be gained by less intrusive means.
However, this is only my personal opinion, garnered from the experiences of friends who have had occasion to either experience these treatments or who have had relatives or loved ones who had them. One of these friends was extremely active in the fight to ban electroshock treatments altogether, so I learned more about it than most.
2006-11-06 17:35:50 · answer #4 · answered by pessimoptimist 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My position is neither for or against. We simply do not need either of the two. Drilling a hole in your head is sometimes used to relieve cranial pressure, but I can't think of many legitimate doctors who would use either procedure. Medications are available now to regulate many of the irregularities that are found in severe cases of irregular personalities. Schizophrenia can be controlled through medication, so why use ECT? It is just not a need procedure anymore.
2006-11-06 17:49:05 · answer #5 · answered by gtrplayer5555 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has been scientifically proven that electroshock therapy is actually helpful in some cases of severe depression, when other forms do not work.
Lobotomies, not so much, they don't even perform that anymore.
2006-11-06 17:52:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your friends must be back in the 1800s mentallity...
Or, they are into abusing people... Electro-shock thereapy is just another word for torture!
They dont do that to animals, and you want them to do it to humans still? How barbaric!
Let them experience it, and after the first treatment, they will never be the same! Just tell them to grab a few "hot wires" and put them on thier heads and hit the switch, and chant to them and you can convince them about anything, because you are electrocuting them and brainwashing them litterally with pain!
Lobotomies? Maybe your friends shoud experience one each, so that they will not hurt anyone...
I wish you well..
Jesse
2006-11-06 17:34:13 · answer #7 · answered by x 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they are usuall reserved for exterme cases and hardly ever done anymore, if they are done ,there is usually no doubt it will improve the life of the patient, there are so many good meds for virtually all psychiratiac disorders that those procedures are pretty antiquated these days.
2006-11-06 17:27:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd do not advocate any such treatment even in severe cases.
2006-11-06 17:23:07 · answer #9 · answered by crownvic64 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
u beeen watching coocoo nest havent u?
2006-11-06 18:05:54 · answer #10 · answered by native,pride 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋