What are some reasons to be labotomized, or have shock therapy?

Question

I've heard that they still do shock therapy, so in cases would a psychologist feel a need to use it?

Answer 1

In my experience, ECT is only used in extreme cases when medication therapies are not working (which itself should be used only after behavioral therapies fail.)

Lobotomization is very, very, very rarely used. I know there are some extreme forms of seizures which benefit from some disconnective brain surgery, but the quality of life changes need to be measured very carefully.

Answer 2

Yes electroconvulsive therapy is the only form of shock therapy still in use today. Although a highly controvertial form of therapy is only used on people with severe cases of depression or bi-polar disorder where they do not respond as effectively to any other forms of therapy. In these isolated cases where nothing else apppears to relive a person of their condition, a psychologist may feel the need to use this therapy.

Lobotomies have been used in the past to treat a wide range of mental illnesses including schizophrenia, clinical depression, and various anxiety disorders.

Answer 3

In cases where the patient's memories are what keeps them from recovering, shock therapy has some short term benefits if progress is made before the memories return. It is dangerous but sometimes effective in a few cases. On the other hand, a lobotomy is the end of all emotional attachment and the beginning of the night of the living dead.

Answer 4

Believe it or not, ECT, or electro convulsive therapy is coming back.
It is currently being used in severe depression where the client has been unresponsive to all other forms of treatment as a last ditch effort to prevent the client from successfully killing themselves. For some of these clients, it reduces the symptoms and they go on to have normal lives.

Split brain surgury is being used in cases of very severe seisures, this is where the cut the corpus collosum, the part of the brain that connects the two hemispheres of the brain. This prevents the "out of control" electrical impulses from bouncing from one side of the brain to the other, thus causing the seisure. This is also only done in cases that do not respond to other forms of treatment, as a last ditch effort.

I hope this is the answer to your question.

Answer 5

such extreme methods are mostly abolished since they tend to do more harm than good. but they were traditionally used for extreme cases ranging from schizophrenia, psychosis, bipolar disorders, and other serious mental disorders. although in the case of lobotomies, before they were outlawed, they would be used for nearly ANY reason. from serious mental issues, to having impure thoughts, or making a mistake. scary stuff

Answer 6

Severe depression, severe schizophrenia...