From Wikipedia: Insulin shock therapy (also called Insulin Coma Therapy) was used as a treatment for schizophrenia, psychosis and drug addiction, involving injecting the patient with massive amounts of insulin, which causes convulsions and coma. It was developed by Polish researcher Manfred Sakel in 1933 and was used well into the 1950s, being replaced by tranquilizing drugs and then later anti-psychotic drugs as well (which also have a sedative effect.) This form of shock treatment, along with Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), derived from the notion (later disproved) that epileptic convulsions and schizophrenic symptoms were never present at the same time in one patient. Methods of administering the treatment varied and there was no precise way of doing it.
The procedure involved giving the patient increasingly large doses of insulin, which reduced the blood sugar and brought on a coma. The procedure was terminated w/ glucose.
We diabetics must be very sane. Comments?
2006-12-13 10:00:56 · 7 answers · asked by x 5 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
Dear VERBal, apparently it must have been successfrul. It was used from 1933 into the 1950's. My sister was bipolar schizophrenic. They tried electroshock therapy and anti-depressants on her to no avail. She eventually committed suicide. I wish I'd known about the insulin therapy back when she was alive. Maybe it could have helped her. Heck, insulin keeps me sane (sort of).
2006-12-13 13:50:21 · update #1
Dear bluehand1...
I'm always telling those donuts to shut their holes. Only the jelly ones listen.
2006-12-13 15:42:48 · update #2
Yes I recall in the movie, "A Beautiful Mind" this is the treatment they used for John Nash's schizophrenia while he was committed to the pysch hospital.
I am certainly the most sane person in my family. I do have a few loony aunts and a niece with bipolar, so this reassures me as long as I take my insulin, the crazy genes will not surface. (Unless of course I go too low, but that's only temporary insanity)
2006-12-13 10:33:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The polite term to use is mental illness and there are no cures just medications that can help a person live a somewhat normal life. Counseling, medication and a solid support system truly benefit someone with a mental illness.
2016-03-13 00:57:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree. I never heard of that before. I have a psych degree and a husband who is diabetic, and never heard that. People tried many crazy things back in the day to try to better our quality of life. It's a good thing they did or else we wouldn't have what we do today.
2006-12-13 10:07:24 · answer #3 · answered by zimmiesgrl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The theory has been proved wrong. There are paranoid schizophrenics with diabetes. Of course they think the donuts are talking to them but that's another story...
2006-12-13 15:32:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is no way to make a person thats crazy sane an shock treatment is in humane so please never suggest that to any one ever all you can do is piut the person in an institute an wish for the best because thats the only way shock treat ment will only make things worse
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2006-12-17 07:23:04 · answer #5 · answered by none of your biz. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what were the results of that kind of treatment. Anybody got saner ?
good point though, hehe
2006-12-13 11:32:48 · answer #6 · answered by oanaveres 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No Diabetics are not all sane believe me my dad and aunt were not sane!
2006-12-13 10:05:56 · answer #7 · answered by help:) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋