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Originally Posted by newtus
we have that over here. im afraid of that as well. in fact i think about that often and i never had sex. i have no idea why im thinking of having babies.
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Thanks Newtus! Yeah I've never had sex (I'm asexual), but I really want to have children one day and I worry I might not get the opportunity...
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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
Yeah that's the thing even when you're recovered it's like the memories are haunting....like when I was watching robocop...who would have expected that to be triggering? Yet it's really hard to stop watching like you'll learn something important or something...  |
Thanks Sometimes! Yeah I couldn't turn it over, even though I was crying. I had to find out if the woman got her baby back (she did).
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Originally Posted by Erti
I didn't realize they still do ECT. It sounds so inhumane.
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Yeah Erti, they still do it. I had it (well 2 sessions) in November, against my wishes. I was sobbing my eyes out, shouting "no!" over and over, and they did it anyway.
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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
They do though more typically for depression or suicidality...but it seems to have some impact on psychosis as well. My pdoc was telling me about another patient who had sz and got ect....he used to have the delusion that he had to sleep with three prostitutes in order to stop the voices....apparently he actually did it but it didn't work but he still continued to think he had to do it and he started getting better after ect but yeah I thought they didn't do it either so I really never looked at pdoc the same way after that he's told me some things that really make me think he goes too far to fix people...some people end up with forced injections etc....I don't know how anyone can think doing these things to other people without consent is OK. I remember once I was talking about antipsychiatry and he was like yeah we've done some terrible things and I almost corrected him to are still doing some terrible things.
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It has fallen out of favour here for psychosis, but they use it for severe/suicidal depression all the time. They have a clinic both here and my Uni city that runs 4 mornings a week.
I've always been squeamish about ECT. I had to observe it as a medstudent and pretend I was one of the doctors instead of more like the patients. But I saw that it did work. In the end I was desperate and told it was my only chance so I did eventually agree to it...but then I changed my mind (I had a delusion that ECT would kill me, which I was ok with, but they wanted me to have it before my brother came home from Uni so I thought I wouldn't have chance to say goodbye to my favourite brother)...and they forced me to have it anyway, which still haunts me.
*Willow*