Sherwin Nuland: How electroshock therapy changed me
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http://www.ted.com Surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland discusses the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression -- including his own. Its a moving and heartfelt talk about relief, redemption and second chances. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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I don't like him at all.
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ECT saved my life. I have had severe bipolar depression since my early teens. After decades of failed treatments and feeling like my life was useless and I would never feel anything near "ok", I decided to try ECT. It was the best decision I ever made. I've had treatments almost every month for over 2 years. I can feel the chemicals begin to flow afterward, and when I first got treated it was like I'd woken up from a nightmare that had been my life. There are so many variables that can effect your experience with ECT; medication you're taking, unilateral or bilateral treatment, and even the anesthesia used are just a few. Medications like benzodiazepines cause memory loss, but most people aren't on forums decrying the horror that is Valium. ECT can save many more lives; we just need to end the stigma.
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11 ECT "treatments" have left me with serious memory problems, seizures (which I never had before), and a feeling of dissociation. It's true I'm not as depressed, but I feel like a zombie most of the time. I understand there are people who have a good experience with it, maybe even a life-saving one. So I'll refrain from being judgmental...All I know is that it pretty much wrecked me in many ways. I had it in my late 20s and I'm now 44 and am on permanent disability. I would urge anyone thinking of undergoing ECT to think twice. More than twice.
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waoo, This guy is amazing :). Super Fan
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i am not sure if this brilliant man ran out of time or ended abruptly after the pheonix qoute, i would love to have seen this particular speech go on forever.
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ECT "works" because it destroys your cognizance and memories. For every person that finds it therapeutic, there are many more who kills themselves afterwards or speak of how it has disabled them.
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Thanks for sharing, dear man!
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Oh my God! I love this guy! He's so smart and he's so funny! I'm very glad ECT worked for him. I myself have had over 20 treatments, and I'm still, for lack of a better phrase, fucked up.
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ECT is one of the most misunderstood medical treatments. I had it multiple times, and it is overall safe, and very effective to treat major depression, and other mental health issues.
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I thought this was a very cool video about ECT, in addition to reading medical articles and watching other Youtube videos.
With that said,. I underwent 6 treatments and it did nothing except destroy my short term memory. I will walk the parking lot for an hour and I have to write everything down all the time because my memory is permanently destroyed. I do not appreciate the fact that the long-term side effects are downplayed and so more and more people watch videos and say "I'm gonna try this". -
I will never get invited to do a TED talk on this topic, but if I did it would state that ECT gave me brain damage and made me want to die. So, you got lucky, Sherwin- low dose or Sham ECT is probably what you had.
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my sister got raped and triggered severe depression and was diagnosed with bipolar. Attempted suicide couple times spent lots of time in mental hospitals. Ended up getting somewhere around 100 ect's as a final last resort to save her life(1990's). directly following the ect-nausea, memory loss didn't remember me; always remembered my parents thou.
Saved her life. has a kid now happily married job etc. the girl that went in was not the girl that came out thou, I feel she is different.
I hope our understanding and treatment of the brain advances must faster -
Thanks for this info
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RIP Doc
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A terrible, vague description of ECT with no mention of the severe risks and potential for serious cognitive impairment and memory loss. Outcome lucky. Not typical.
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ECT is "craniocerebral trauma". It causes brain damage. A series of closed head injury concussions causing grand mal seizures is not "therapy" or "treatment". It is a barbaric, lunatic assault on a delicate brain. The fact the odd person survives a limited number at low dose does not mean anything when compared to the thousands of people whose memories have been destroyed, intellects have been decimated,and personalities have been altered for the worse.The cover ups of ECT brain injury by shock docs, the APA, and hospitals driven by arrogance, stupidity, ignorance, a delusional state, or simply greed is on a par with the NFL and its denials about brain injury and CTE caused by concussions.
A twelve year old could figure this out. Multiple electrical injuries and seizures have NOTHING to do with medicine or "healing". Read up on the neurological and psychiatric injuries caused by accidental electrical injury. Horrifying.Debilitating. But if a "doctor" assaults someone with 10 or 20 electrical "treatments", it is called "therapy"? It is time this stupid, dangerous human rights violation is BANNED.
This video sucks on multiple levels. Nuland never speaks of the TYPE of ECT he is given, the schedule for the series he is given, the voltage that is used, and what side effects he was willing to accept for his so called recovery. For all we know, his doctors could have given him sham ECT or the tiniest shock anyone could be given. For all we know, he might have simply spontaneously recovered at that time by coincidence. He may have been so convinced by his doctors faith in the procedure that placebo kicked in. Or, he could have had just enough brain injury to derail his OCD by making him "forget" what was bugging him.This video should come with links directing viewers to videos by Mar Maddock and Liz Spikol so a more balanced view is presented to those desperate people considering EVT/TBI as "treatment". -
I'm not the only one here it did not help
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A great explanation of ECT. I recently went through a number of treatments and found them helpful. I also posted it on my YouTube channel. Douglas Bloch
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That was fantastic. Thank you for sharing!