Posted by Zyprexa on February 6, 2012, at 6:14:01
In reply to Re: pdoc mentioned ECT today :(, posted by sigismund on February 5, 2012, at 17:06:28
> >ECT appears to have a reasonable success rate for severe acute depressive episodes, with or without depressive delusions.
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> My psych said this to me......
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> 'When I was a med student, they told me that this was the gold standard. When I was a registrar I prescribed it. Later I taught med students the same thing. And you know what? I never saw anyone improved by it. They stopped complaining though.'
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> IMO, when you get to that stage, the industry no longer treats you as if you are fully human.
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No they don't. They would wake me in the morning, put me on a gurny and wisk me off to the ECT room, stick morphine in my vain and I would wake later wondering what happened.> No double blind clinical trials here.
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