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For my psychology class I did a project and it involved the affects and damages of electroconvulsive therapy to the brain. I thought it was interesting and decided to share my research and basically decided to do my interpretation of what I gathered of my research 🐱 I hope you enjoy my perfectly flawed freaks 💞
This is going to be a bit different than what I aimed for with my Twisted Tales book... And I got more ideas of some chapters being true facts of Twisted things that have actually happened ;)
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Affects/Damages: severe/permanent memory loss, brain damages, cardiovascular complications, intellectual impairment, some evidence of spinal and brain legions, even death
History: Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) began in Rome, 1938, in a slaughter house. They inflicted it on pigs to basically make it easier to slit their throats. After psychiatrist Ugo Cerletti experimented with ECT on mainly dogs most of them died of Cardiac Arrest, after trying it on pigs Ugo decided to do it on people.
In 1940, Australia, the first ECT machine was made. The machine being made by Birch; Birch was the super intendant of mental institutions for South Australia. This Sociopath first tested the ECT machines on Rabbits ((not actually proven to be a sociopath but still)). Birch's first patient being in August 1941 at Park side Mental Hospital in Adelaide.
Evidence/facts: there isn't much proof in ECT actuating preventing suicide, rather the opposite. There is more common and persist evidence that suicides were committed after and related to ECT. In America ECT is administered to 100,000 people per year in primarily psychiatric units/hospitals. Mainly used on patients with severe depression, acute mania, certain schizophrenia sydromes , and suicidal patients who can't wait for anti depressant medication to take affect.
How Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Usually Done: ECT usually administrated in the morning, before ECT patient is given anesthetic is applied with muscle relaxers. Electric is applied to scalp which causes brief convulsion.
Patient wakes up confused and doesn't remember anything that surrounds the events that occurred with the treatment.
Continues for three times a week for a month. Number of treatments range from 6 to 12.
http://www.cchr.org.au/component/content/article/47-news/200-braindamaging-effects-of-electroshock
http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/ect
And from my psychology text book which I'm too lazy to Cite..
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