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2019-02-24 Science & Technology

Controversial electric shock treatment for severe depression could cause permanent brain damage and ‘should be stopped'

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-24 02:27|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 1984 came a few years late?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-24 02:37|| 2019-02-24 02:37|| Front Page Top

#2 "Controversial electric shock treatment for severe depression could cause permanent brain damage and ‘should be stopped'"

In the 50's you democrat idiots.
You never learn anything, Do you?

Posted by newc 2019-02-24 02:55|| 2019-02-24 02:55|| Front Page Top

#3 ....treatment left her plagued by constant confusion and memory loss, while loud, bustling environments often leave her so ’disorientated she was ’unable to function’.

Proves absolutely nothing. I've got all of that and more. I've never had an ECT treatment, that I can remember.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-24 03:26|| 2019-02-24 03:26|| Front Page Top

#4 ECT is only claimed to be effective in about half of the cases of severe depression for which it is prescribed. Memory loss and confusion are known side effects, especially immediately following treatment.

Sadly, trailing daughter #1 is among the 50% for which it did not work.

The current version is much milder and more targetted than what was formerly used, and I understand that even more refined treatments are being tested, as well as new drug treatments. But the NHS does not have the funding to pursue more modern treatments when older, cheaper treatments work well enough for the general run of patient — who anyway does not know enough to complain about the options on offer.

This really — though the Daily Mail and Professor John Read from the University of East London are either unaware or or refusing to contemplate the possibility — an indictment of Britain’s National Health Service approach to health care: uncaring or overworked doctors improperly prescribing known-to-be risky treatments without bothering to pay attention to the impact on an individual patient, resulting in patients who lives are utterly destroyed, or sending patients home with aspirin only to have them die of whatever condition the doctor missed, whether cancer or appendicitis. Dr. Sue Cunkiffe, 52, is lucky she merely had to accept she would never be able to practice her profession again after spending three years relearning how to read — there are endless reports of patients of all ages dying because the NHS medical professionals didn’t bother to look closely at individual patients or follow up on diagnoses and treatments.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-02-24 15:50|| 2019-02-24 15:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Is repeating everything twice one of the side effects?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-24 15:51|| 2019-02-24 15:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Cute, g(r)omgoru. Fixed.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-02-24 16:05|| 2019-02-24 16:05|| Front Page Top

#7 😎

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-24 16:10|| 2019-02-24 16:10|| Front Page Top

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