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| 5:13:33 PM - Tue, Mar 20th 2012 |
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Saw this today and thought it was pretty interesting:
Scientists finally solve 75-year-old riddle of how controversial electric shock treatment can treat severe depression
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2117246/Electro-convulsive-therapy-How-electric-...
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Edited On 2:18:04 PM - Wed, Mar 21st 2012 by WSH
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| 4:42:39 AM - Wed, Mar 21st 2012 |
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| That is pretty interesting. It has come a long way from the way it used to be administered. I know several people at a state hospital that have it done on an out-patient basis for severe depression, it does seem to help.
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| 2:11:18 PM - Wed, Mar 21st 2012 |
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Yes I too know people that have had this done, also for severe depression.
Oddly enough about 10 years ago when I was in the country of Turkey, I was at a Turkish Bath (spa) and they offerend electro shock therapy as one of the menu item for the spa!
I would also like to urge people to view the comments left on this article. A lot of from people that have had ECT and are very interesting.
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| 7:58:14 PM - Wed, Mar 21st 2012 |
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Electrical therapy used to be extremely popular back in the day.
They used to sell things from the last 1800s to early 1900s for home electroshock treatment or treatment by a local doctor. The older ones were usually hand cranked but later ones were called galvanic or faradic battery machines and usually ran on the huge old No.6 batteries. They provided low amounts of current and were marketed as doing a lot of things. I actually have one I got on ebay, its fun at parties. 
They also had a thing called a "violet ray machine" which was essentially a mini tesela coil marketed as being good for your hair and skin.
Most of these went away when the laws against quack medicine were made I think in 1932.
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| 4:17:10 PM - Thu, Mar 22nd 2012 |
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| that seems a really simplistic explanation to something that is pretty complex. The old galvanic machines are cool, but a little frightening. I just was just looking at an older plug in one (you can tell the age as the cord was still a light bulb screw in type, not a wall plug like yo have now) putting it in the era of late 1800or early 1900's. The idea of shocking myself at home today with much much better quality of electrical service coming into my house scares me, I couldn't imagine using that machine back in the day.
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