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Electric Shock Therapy
| Mon, 05-31-2004 - 5:14pm |
Hi,
My sister is severely depressed, and does not handle the side effects of the medicine well so the doctor wants to perform electric shock therapy. Has anyone had this and did it work? I have heard that some memory loss might occor after the treatment, does anyone know if it is true.
Any advice would be appriated.
Thanks

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By Sylvia Kronstadt
What I remember most clearly is that while they were tying me down and tightening a rubber strap around my head, I smelled something that I immediately sensed was the aroma of a plane crash (although I have never been anywhere one): death, flaming petroleum and superheated metal. The small room resounded with an angry and unsettling hiss, which I assume was from an open valve on some sort of pressurized gas -- probably oxygen. I said, "Please don't give me the paralysis drug until I'm sleeping."