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[SpeedyPC]

Did it help with the PTSD?

Only 50/50 improvement’s, he’s still have issue with it.

 

[Chris]

Many decades ago my jackass grandfather had it done to my aunt as a child because she was happy. My Mother said she was never the same after that. I guess she was lucky they didn't go for the twin suborbital lobotomy.

Did it help with the PTSD?

They still do that crap for panic attacks and to make you quit smoking and things like that.

While it is still used, it's not like it was portrayed in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

 

[TobyC]

While it is still used, it's not like it was protrayed in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Hopefully a bit more targeted, and with specific voltage/amps. I think I will still take a hard pass.

 

[SpeedyPC]

Hopefully a bit more targeted, and with specific voltage/amps. I think I will still take a hard pass.

My father told me, before, they start the ECT.

1. They MUST put them to sleep first, under full anaesthesia without feeling pain.
2. Place the ECT safety mouth guard.
3. Give them the ECT shocked.
4. Give them a special type of injection to completely shut down the whole body muscle spasm shock.
5. Remove them fully from anaesthesia
6. Give them fresh oxygen to slowly woke up, but, keep them sleepy for a while.
7. They'll wake up with a total 24 hours major headache throughout the whole day/night, giving them paracetamol to treat the headache for a while.
8. Give them food with tea, coffee, or water.
9. Rest for 24 hours until further notice from psychiatrist.

 

[Chris]

Hopefully a bit more targeted, and with specific voltage/amps. I think I will still take a hard pass.

As SpeedyPC said in more detail, it's now done under anaesthesia. To be fair One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest shows it being mis-used as a form of control, not being used as a therapy. It essentially did for ECT what Jaws did for sharks.

 

[SpeedyPC]

As SpeedyPC said in more detail, it's now done under anaesthesia. To be fair One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest shows it being mis-used as a form of control, not being used as a therapy. It essentially did for ECT what Jaws did for sharks.

The first idea of treatment ECT under anaesthesia, started around in the early 1990's, going back further from the 90's into the old days, they don't used anaesthesia when using ECT.

 

[Chris]

The first idea of treatment ECT under anaesthesia, started around in the early 1990's, going further from the 90's into the old days, they don't used anaesthesia when using ECT.

They started using anaesthesia for ECT here in the mid 1950's. Even so, Cuckoo's Nest remains an unrealistic portrayal, even without anaesthesia the electric pulse lasts for a fraction of a second and the patient is rendered unconscious.

The anaesthesia was to spare the patient being awake during the muscle relaxants that they started using to prevent convulsion.

 

[SpeedyPC]

They started using anaesthesia for ECT here in the mid 1950's. Even so, Cuckoo's Next remains an unrealistic portrayal, even without anaesthesia the electric pulse lasts for a fraction of a second and the patient is rendered unconscious.

The anaesthesia was to spare the patient being awake during the muscle relaxants that they started using to prevent convulsion.

Didn't know they started in the mid 50's, interesting

 

[Paper Plane]

Bloody Xmas films are back on the TV.

steve

 

[Burgundy]

Bloody Xmas films are back on the TV.

steve

I long for the year that Christmas ends its illegal occupation of November.

I suppose I can accept the adverts starting on the 1st Sunday of Advent. Maybe the odd teaser on Stir Up Sunday. But decs and pigs-in-blankets out at the shops on 1st November? Bah humbug!

 

[TobyC]

 

[TobyC]

 

[SpeedyPC]

Bloody Xmas films are back on the TV.

steve

The bloody grinch loves to annoy you, and to make you suffer on Christmas Day

 

[purerockfury]

always has to be... get through one mess then maybe get a day break till the next or an old mess happens... and i used to like being an insomniac and a little still that it's back but this old disabilities having body can't handle it as good as it used too... maybe got 20 hours so far this week...

 

[Chris]

Evri - how do they still exist and why do companies insist on using them? I've had two parcels setting at the "local depot" for two days so far, probably because Evri can't get anyone to deliver them, likely because their drivers are not employees and are paid a pittance per delivery. They also don't get paid for parcels not delivered, hence their willingness to "deliver" them into your dustbin or chuck them over the fence into the garden.

I wouldn't send anything using Evri because they're bloody useless, but have no control over which courier a business decides to use when sending things to me unfortunately. It's impossible to contact a human at Evri, and you can't collect things from the "depot", so if you're expecting a parcel you're at their mercy. The only consolation is that I'll eventually be able to get a refund if they're never actually delivered but it's still frustrating.