ECT

julie on February 27th, 2008

Electric convulsive therapy (ECT) is used in psychiatry today to help lift major depression, and in some cases to reduce psychosis.  In the olden days ECT treatments were used only after medication therapy had been tried and the medication stopped working. I liked that rule because ECT is psychiatry’s heavy artillery. It was considered the last [...]

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julie on February 16th, 2008

 I want to offer my sincere condolences to you, your family, and to your community.
The pain must be intolerable. I am so sorry for the violence in America.
 In this case, the shooter was a grad student. The assassin was still in the age group for a severe psychiatric diagnosis. I don’t know if the killer [...]

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