The Pros And Cons Of Electroconvulsive Therapy
Everyday approximately two hundred and seventy five adults endure their first session of electroconvulsive therapy because they’ve been told by doctors that it’ll make them happier. However, the doctors often fail to mention that they themselves don’t even understand how or why electroconvulsive therapy ¨works¨, they only assume that it resets your brain's functions but this hasn’t been proven. What good could possibly come from an electrically induced seizure?
Some people firmly believe that electroconvulsive therapy is a miracle treatment that saves lives and can improve the quality of life for anyone who undergoes the barbaric therapy. It’s commonly assumed that ECT will only reset the parts of your brain that are abnormal but that’s not true. It will reset everything in it’s path which is why patients are commonly left with significant memory loss and confusion. I think that ECT is extremely …show more content…
Patients will undergo six to twelve treatments over the course of two to four weeks and then have to go back every two weeks for several years, only to relapse after they’re done treatment. It's a lengthy road to recovery with ECT and once you reach the end of the road, it loops back around to where it started.
Wendy Funk, an ECT survivor has spoken out on the horrors of ECT in her novel What Difference Does It Make?. She was forcibly given 40 ECT treatments and as a result can’t remember a majority of her life. She can't recall the births of her children or her own wedding, she was so mentally crippled that couldn’t even read. She’s not alone either, similar things have happened to many other survivors as well.
Hundreds of Canadians have been forced to have ECT and were left battling even bigger demons than they started out with. Multiple survivors are left with permanent brain damage and a variety of minor disabilities. But even still this torturous “therapy” is still being performed and is actually on the rise in
Some people firmly believe that electroconvulsive therapy is a miracle treatment that saves lives and can improve the quality of life for anyone who undergoes the barbaric therapy. It’s commonly assumed that ECT will only reset the parts of your brain that are abnormal but that’s not true. It will reset everything in it’s path which is why patients are commonly left with significant memory loss and confusion. I think that ECT is extremely …show more content…
Patients will undergo six to twelve treatments over the course of two to four weeks and then have to go back every two weeks for several years, only to relapse after they’re done treatment. It's a lengthy road to recovery with ECT and once you reach the end of the road, it loops back around to where it started.
Wendy Funk, an ECT survivor has spoken out on the horrors of ECT in her novel What Difference Does It Make?. She was forcibly given 40 ECT treatments and as a result can’t remember a majority of her life. She can't recall the births of her children or her own wedding, she was so mentally crippled that couldn’t even read. She’s not alone either, similar things have happened to many other survivors as well.
Hundreds of Canadians have been forced to have ECT and were left battling even bigger demons than they started out with. Multiple survivors are left with permanent brain damage and a variety of minor disabilities. But even still this torturous “therapy” is still being performed and is actually on the rise in