Study out today suggests SHOCK THERAPY for depression!

[Bluebear]

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 3 (HealthDayNews) -- People with major depression experience improved mood, quality of life and daily living activities when treated with electroconvulsive therapy, or so-called shock therapy, a new study finds.

With ECT, patients are given a brief electrical shock to the brain to produce a generalized seizure, according to the study researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.(!)

The study, which included 77 people with major depression, found that 66 percent of them showed improvement at both two and four weeks after ECT. The findings appear in the November issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/hsn/20041104/hl_hsn/shocktherapyeasesdepressionsymptoms

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Maybe this has something to do with that Bush plan to "screen" the populace for "mental illness".

[Guaranteed]

1. This is ridiculous.

Fucking regression all over the place.

[Bluebear]

2. What is this, 1958 all over again?

[Sparkly]

5. I think the next step is lobotomy

which could explain a lot.

[Straight Shooter]

3. Well, I got the shock of my life last night, so why I am so DEPRESSED!

Here it comes, the spoon-feeding of horrid ideas until it becomes so palatable that we can swallow big gulps of it.

:puke:

[derbstyron]

4. Almost Had IT

But doctor and I decided against it. It has serious sideffects and should be used as a last resort, if possible. Although, if the Depression is very bad it's sometimes used immediately.

I'm Bi-Polar :) :(

[Edmond Dantes]

6. Shock treatments turn your brain to mush.

But ignorance is bliss--so no more depression!

[derbstyron]

7. LOL

:)