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Electroconvulsive therapy - elte - Mar 6, 2018
Throwback to appalling treatments of yesteryear. Wonder if lobotomies were also termed therapy.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-03-inflammation-effectiveness-electroconvulsive-therapy-major.html
RE: Electroconvulsive therapy - Syne - Mar 6, 2018
Barbaric. They administer a paralytic, muscle-relaxer, anesthetic, and/or sedative so it doesn't look as horrendous as it actually is (and people don't fracture or dislocate bones like they did in the 1940s).
RE: Electroconvulsive therapy - elte - Mar 7, 2018
It kind of seems like taking cyanide with a spoonful of sugar.