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Originally Posted by itsmeleyreagain
I think you guys should reject ECT. I've never been on it and never have been proposed to have it (thank God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) but I think it's sad in the twenty first century these ideas are still bought and people receive ECT when it doesn't work and it's unhuman. I know you might be desperate and in desperation, you take whatever they tell you because you want so desperately to get better, but that's no excuse for them. If your doctor suggests ECT, think twice, and three times, and more.
Desperation is no way to do things, I bet you. At least not in this field.
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Actually it does work quite well for many people, and it is not inhuman at all. This isn't One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Does it work for everyone, no. And patients need to be educated about the treatment and possibly side effects, but it is an option that has saved my life more than once. A close friend and my husband also had ECT with very good results.