This is a very sensitive subject for me because it was done to my Grandmother when she was a teenager, and it was right up there along the lines of torture. It is my understanding that, like me, her depression was treatment and chemical resistant. It completely wiped out her personality, a lot of her memory, and a lot of other things as well that were not the kinds of things one ever gets back. That carried over until she passed away somewhere in her 70's or early 80's.

I'm sure if done correctly, it does help a lot of people, but most of the people I know that have had it done have regretted it. Many have also needed to repeatedly have it done. I've never had a doctor bring it up to me and the ones I have discussed it with still feel it's kind of barbaric.