'Electro Shock Therapy'

John from Emerysville, Indiana (Contact Member) -

I think there should be more use of electro shock therapy... the body is bioelectric and we've about over done the bio (medical) aspect of it. We need more focus on the electric aspect... especially microshocks.

Comment #1 Dana from the Naturopathic World (63.176.159.247) -

I beg to disagree Mr. John. It is somewhat inhumane to literally shock or electrocute a patient (though how minimum the volt is) just to wake him or her up to their senses, without the consent of the patients family and the United States Law. It is still a practice to some hospitals and I strictly condemn such acts. Natural healing and treatment is still the best method. No to artificial ways of healing!

Comment #2 Melanie (63.176.159.179) -

I think the both of you are right. Sometimes it may cause for electro shock therapy depending on the condition and what the problem is with the patient. Other times it may call for a patient to have natural healing and treatment, and other medication. I think it all depends on the doctor, hospital, and the family on what they want done to the patient.

Comment #3 Eric (63.176.159.19) -

I would like to know some more about electro shock therapy, and what it is used for. Also is it practiced in small areas or just big cities? I have chronic back pain and would like to get rid of it, but I hate taking my pain medicine cause I do not want to become dependent on it. I would really like to know more information about this, so please let me know.

Comment #4 Haywire (63.176.159.127) -

I believe that electroshock treatment has been one of the oldest psychological treatment in the history of mental hospitals. If I am not mistaking there are quite a few mental asylums used a brutal kind of treatments to mental patients in the past (I believe around the 1940's to 1970's) which can now be seen in documentaries and infotainment shows like Ripley's Believe It or Not. It may cure a person but I think it is not ethical to do so.

Comment #5 Mheizu (63.176.159.246) -

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock, is a well established, albeit controversial, psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patients for therapeutic effect. Today, ECT is most often used as a treatment for severe major depression which has not responded to other treatment, and is also used in the treatment of mania (often in bipolar disorder), catatonia and schizophrenia. It was first introduced in the 1930s and gained widespread use as a form of treatment in the 1940s and 1950s; today, an estimated 1 million people worldwide receive ECT every year, usually in a course of 6-12 treatments administered 2 or 3 times a week.

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy

Comment #6 Natascha (63.176.159.32) -

I agree totally with Dana. Electroshock therapy has no real proof of ever having cured a patient. I also believe that any type of shock or aggressive therapy cannot be good for the body. The mental and physical stress it causes limits any benefits it may give.

Does any reader personally KNOW any case of cure by electro shock therapy? Do you know any person with a mental disorder who really WANTS electro shock therapy and feels it has helped him/her?

Comment #7 Lisa from Oklahoma City (Contact Member) -

Who cares if it helps or not... it's gotta be a whole lot of fun for the operator of the electro shock equipment! Zap him! Zap him good! ahahahahah

Comment #8 Lonet (63.176.159.234) -

Well that is if there is no patient consent Dana. But if the patient wish to undergo in this kind of procedure then it is not inhumane isnt it?

For those who seeks medical prcedures or sometimes alternatives such as this Electro Shock Therapy, it is their personal choice and we have nothing to do with it.

Let us be cautious on what will others might feel on what we post..

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