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Originally Posted by hameltsdemons
There has been quite a lot of research actually since the late 80's, mostly in the North East. There are lots of books about it. The Kitty Dukakis and Larry Tye book "Shock" is very informative. And actually now doctors are very open about the fact there will be memory loss and that they're not sure how much there will be and that there are techniques such as placing the electrodes on the same side of the head to minimize memory loss.
Did your electroshock take place quite a long time ago? I'm so sorry that your experience was so negative for you. It must have been devastating.
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I'm not in America so I'm not really up-to-date on all the thinking going on there. In England/Europe, it is VERY rare to do ECT. Almost impossible to find a psych who is trained to do it or has the machine.
The ECT was in America about *counts* five years ago now. There was definitely a lack of informed consent in my circumstance. Not only did they not tell me about any of the potential damage it could do, they went ahead and did it to me despite my lack of consent.
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