Due to reading The Bell Jar, I was talking about depression and electroshock therapy with my mom, and she said that it actually worked sometimes. I was surprised by this, and looked it up online to see if anyone benefited from electroshock therapy. A Youtube video titled "Sherwin Nuland: How electroshock therapy changed me" caught my eye. The video is quite lengthy, but I was intrigued and wanted to post it on the blog since it has everything to do with Esther and her experiences with shock therapy.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Electroshock Therapy Works?
Due to reading The Bell Jar, I was talking about depression and electroshock therapy with my mom, and she said that it actually worked sometimes. I was surprised by this, and looked it up online to see if anyone benefited from electroshock therapy. A Youtube video titled "Sherwin Nuland: How electroshock therapy changed me" caught my eye. The video is quite lengthy, but I was intrigued and wanted to post it on the blog since it has everything to do with Esther and her experiences with shock therapy.
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It's surprising to me that it actually works, because at first it seemed like some very primitive 1950s-type remedy that would cause more harm than good. When I think about it now, though, the concept behind it makes sense, because all emotions or impulses are due to electrical signals between neurons in the brain, and in a depressed patient, electroshock therapy might re-wire the connections back to normal.
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