Posted by rjlockhart on February 23, 2007, at 0:45:32 [reposted on February 25, 2007, at 13:13:39 | original URL]
I was watching on Primetime, at 6 about this new treatment that litterly shocks people who do harm to htem selves.
Such as headbanging till almost brain damage is done, biting there self, screaming, this was said with "autistic" children.
They also talk about drugs......haldol, heavy antipsychotics taht make the person basically sleep all day, zoned out, antipsychotic'd person. They thought this treatment would benefit better than drugs.
The treatment is done by every time the child or teenager starts to hit, bite, or inflict any harm to themselves, there is a very intese shock that is giving which straps are on there arms and legs, that deliver the shock. What i cant understand is, if they continue it, they will get the shock over and over and over again, until it forces them to quit. But thats delivering more pain than just what they are doing to themselves, but its suppost to be non harmful, but painful.
What happens if they have no memory after the shock not to do it? do zap them 10-20 times until there body is exhausted?
Conterversy was stated about this. Should drugs be used really, there have been success stories about manually strapping them down, but this is something htat look like someone one very psychotily ill in a locked up psych ward. But there was success..... in a few.
What do you think.
1. Antipsychotics- which zone, almost make the patient sleep all day, have no real ocupation because there so zoned out.
2. The Shock Treatemnt.
3. Manually restraining the patient. -- this is what i go for. But it takes alot of people and more money, for theapy.
Should they also just maybe use shock treatment and therpy?
What do you think?
Rj
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