Does anyone have any good internet resources for electric shock therapy?

Question

If you do can you please post them, thanks :)

Answer 1

Here you go:

How Electric Shock "Works"
1. The patient is injected with an anesthetic to block out pain and a muscle relaxant to shut down muscular activity and prevent spinal fractures.

2. Electrodes are placed on the temples bilaterally (from one side of the brain to the other) or unilaterally (front to back on one side of the brain).

3. A rubber gag is placed in the mouth to keep teeth from breaking or patients from biting their tongues.

4. Between 180 and 480 volts of electricity are sent searing through the brain.

5. To meet the brains demand for oxygen, blood flow to the brain can increase as much as 400%. Blood pressure can increase 200%. Under normal conditions, the brain uses a blood-brain barrier to keep itself healthy against harmful toxins and foreign substances. With electroshock, harmful substances leak from blood vessels into the brain tissue, causing swelling. Nerve cells die. Cellular activity is altered. The physiology of the brain is altered.

6. The results are memory loss, confusion, loss of space and time orientation and even death.

7. Most patients are given a total of 6 to 12 shocks, one a day, three times a week.

Ask the foremost psychiatrists and they have no explanation to justify why or how their treatment works. It is literally as scientific as sticking ones head in a light socket. Do it often enough and you will become disoriented, confused, lose your memory or even die. Same result as ECT—but it will cost you a lot less.

For more information:

See the publication The Brutal Reality

Theta Works
stores.ebay.com/theta-works

Answer 2

Are you writing from 40 years in the past? Look at theta's excellent description of this procedure, which way way back was used (together with insuline shock and God forbid cold water baths) to cure depression. And the strange thing was : in a great deal of patients it worked (but with all side effects as described). But now that we have chemical therapies ( some also with not so nice side effects) electro shock has gone the way of the dinosaurs.

Answer 3

maybe. a short story. I was working in a dunking machine at a fair for a charity. this dude hit the bulls-eye and I went in. when I got my seat snapped back in place, the end of my nose touched the microphone. with my feet in the water, it was like a lightning bolt ran through me. all I could see was white. my brother shut the power off the amp and pulled me out. so if someone says atheists need shock therapy, I have to say no thanks. I have already had mine.

Answer 4

here are a few.
http://www.electroboy.com/electroshocktherapy.htm
http://bipolar.about.com/od/ect/Electroconvulsive_Therapy.htm
this one has videos
http://www.ect.org/video/index.shtml