What is the opinion of ECT?
607211
Electroconvulsive therapy is seen as vulgar and out-dated by most people today, but it can be benefitial.  It can have side effects, like memory loss, but the method used today is much different that the primitive technique.  Individuals undergoing ECT barely move now, maybe just a slight toe-twitch or something.  Other forms of treatment - medication and therapy - are likely to be tried first b/c their potential side-effects are generally less extreme.  But before ruling out ECT, it's important to remember that most treatments have side effects, and to consider if you're willing to risk those side effects to find a solution to depression, etc.  If I were depressed and nothing else worked for me, I'd do it.
925699
I, too, had horrible headaches. They gave me ibuprofen 800mg. It took some edge off, but not enough. Pain killers weren't an option for me, as I had addiction. I wouldn't recommend ECT either. It was horrible for me. I had it done 7 times and it never helped. It gave me memory loss, short term and long term. I was going through a divorce and I don't even remember why or how I felt or acted. Good luck and Bless You.
201093
It's boring. Kind of scary. \nI am not going to complain about the regular sex.\nshower time could get right out of hand.\nseriously it is a drag. \nPsychiatric wards can be scarier, but you don't necessarily have to sleep with guys if you are broke and need a smoke, lot's of good looking loonies(I can say that I own that word) in the hospital and you cannot catch crazy so it is worth going for it.\nSo each has it's pros and con's but I would have to recommend psyche ward over jail. and jail over my last marriage.\n\n\noh for the people that say you lose your self respect, speak for yourselfs. i am just dandy.
1076286
I live in IL, a state given the grade of "F" by the National Institute for Mental Health (NAMI). Lack of funding, community resource, poor communication between inpatient and outpatient care. It is so SAD and FRUSTRATING to sit in a therapy group and listen to the majority of people who say they have nobody there for them.\nI have an illness that affects me mentally (Asperger Syndrome), and subscribe to a newsletter where I have written essays about my personal experiences with it. My way of giving back and saying thanks for having it better than most.
269779
Best thing you can do man. I read abit about that before its amazing the results they had.  Doesnt take years like psycho-therapy and you dont have to deal with malicious anti-depresents in you bloodstream. Best thing you can do, highly recomended.
655298
We have asked my doctor for it several times and his explanation of why we don't want it convinces us it is dangerous.\n\nI did get some free samples from another doctor and took one pill but my heart acted up so bad from it I threw them out. That is bad stuff.
957537
Personal opinion I suppose. : )
658013
No, however the patient may not be! It's not always wise to take young children to visit people who are in the middle of treatment as it may cause a lower imune system, and am sorry to say kids carry all sorts of beastly germs.\n\nHowever, have no idea what this electric shock treatment is?
1056412
Not by the strictest of criteria. \n\nScience requires observation, hypothesis and experiment.\nThe end result being well confirmed theory which provides a framework for useful predictions.\n\nPsychologists can't ethically experiment on people to any great degree. So basically it's just applying unconformable hypotheses on patients. It answers the urgent needs of troubled minds, so I can't really condemn it wholeheartedly. \n\nThere isn't a reasonable alternative just yet. Neuro-pharmacology seems like a mildly dangerous mass experiment to me, given the currently incomplete understanding of how the brain works. \n\nOn the bright side, I think neurobiology will absorb psychology inside the next 50 years. I don't think psychiatry is totally valueless, just a little overarching in it's authority. \n\nI'm sure more than a few psychiatric hypothesis will be confirmed in the near future, but until they can be it won't really be a science in the fullest sense.
1151670
well, its a choice. but i do beleive that they are one of the most overutilized and overprescribed classes of drug out there. everybody feels a "little blue" once in awhile, and everyone thinks theyre depressed so they run to the doctor who says "uhh, ok whatever, take this"\n\nbut some people really do need to be on them
525279
The best thing is not medication, but ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, I know it sounds harsh, but they put you under general anesthesia so you don't feel a thing.  In addition it is effective 60% of the time, where as anti-psychotics are only effective 40%.  in any case consult your doctor for the treatment plan that is best for you, and DO NOT go off you medication regimen without advise from your doctor.
290019
My personal opinion, mental illness.
676505
No.  \n\nThis is the biggest misconception about this disorder.  Did you know that fewer than 15% percent of people with TS ever display this symptom?  It is not a required symptom for a TS diagnosis.\n\nIs having an epileptic fit a sin?  PLEASE!
641034
MOST DEFINATELY!  No one understands Bipolar like someone Wwho has it or a family member of someone who has it.  GREAT IDEA!
1077402
why do you care what everyone in a different home, ect is doing? take care of yourself.
463918
Yes!  I've gone through all the DVDs, CDs and the manual.  When I was first learning it, I thought, "This has got to be the silliest thing I've ever looked into." I get migraines and I do EFT every time I feel one coming on.  It works very well!  I haven't had to take my migraine medicine for a few months now.  I try if for Everything.  I get pretty darn good results.\n\nFeel free to email me about this.
317867
Freaky is not bad.  Whether the level of freaky is right for you is up to you.  It's a personal thing.