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Young man, I want you to know that I ob j ect violently to this whole affair.
RELEASE THE SU BJ ECT ON THE DOU BLE.
PLEASE, CON N ECT ME WITH YOUR SU PERVISOR.
I wish they had an ECT machine though.
An unprecedented amount of ECT was prescribed before it was pointed out that the flying man was none other than our own Fergus MacKinnon, hang gliding into town to buy our new mixer.
It's a bit like ECT.
You want me to cut off some poor sod who's in the middle of his ECT?
In a city of perf ect people. no one was more perf ect than Brooke.
What is this ECT?
It is, in eff.ect, asingle pump. powering a double circuit.
Cameron used drugs including LSD and the technique of ECT, electro-convulsive therapy.
And so he used massive doses of shock, people receiving several shocks a day and over a course over time hundreds of ECT treatments so that they were just reduced to sort of a very primitive vegetable state.
Do I have to go get more ECT?
YOU KNOW, IT'S FU N NY HOW MANY MEMORI ES YOU CON N ECT WITH A PLACE.
ECT was my specialty.
We've had excellent results with ECT in the past.
You'r e perf ect for an actr ess!
The good news is you're gonna have your last ECT session in a couple of days.
It's part of the last ECT session.
ECT not being the precise science that, say, leeching is.
No one would ever use ECT on a child.
Oh, neither. It's an ECT machine. Circa 1940.
But it's perf ect.
You Just had a light spot of ECT.
Yes, that's marginally less dangerous than ECT, puts you in a coma, could cause.
A chemical assault like that could explain the pe. And the ECT explains the rest.
ECT doesn't cause neural damage.
But it wasn't a problem until the ECT at breeder boot camp caused your brain to swell just enough to plug the opening.
Many of my depressed and schizophrenic patients improve markedly with ECT.
Garcia, what mental hospitals in Virginia use ECT machines?
Take a paper. Re? ect.
News and current affairs
In fact, despite a consensus that ECT is the most effective treatment for severe depressive disorder, it comes at the bottom of the list in most treatment regimens for mood disorders.
Although ECT's opponents believe that it causes brain damage, this is difficult to prove.
Like antipsychotic drugs, antidepressants, and tranquilizers, ECT has an immediate organic effect.
But, while ECT rarely, if ever, causes clear clinical evidence of brain damage and has not been shown to do so in animal studies, antipsychotic drugs regularly do, in the form of tardive dyskinesia and other syndromes.
There is no dispute that ECT can cause short-term memory loss.
Nor can enduring autobiographical memory disturbances and inability to remember lists be readily attributed to ECT, because ECT is rarely given on its own.
The failure of ECT's critics to demonstrate what to them seems obvious indicates an active conspiracy to minimize treatment-induced problems and to block those who have been injured by treatment from seeking redress.
Organized psychiatry appears to have little interest in ECT, or is scared of harassment from patient advocates.
Why is it all but impossible to find anything but vilification of ECT on the Internet, and anything but glowing testimonies about drug treatments?
ECT's critics seem to think that if they do not protest against its use at every opportunity, its advocates will inflict it on people who do not need it.
But, in contrast to psychotropic drugs, there are no marketing departments geared to maximizing ECT.
CARDIFF - No medical therapy is treated more differently by countries, regions, hospitals, and doctors than electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
Some of the unease about ECT stems from psychiatry's dark past, when patients in many countries had fewer legal rights than prisoners.
Not so long ago, physical treatments such as lobotomy and ECT could be inflicted on patients without their consent, and sometimes for punitive purposes.
In fact, at recent guideline meetings in the United Kingdom on the issue of ECT, there have been no representatives from psychiatry, but many from patient groups.
There are better targets in mental health than ECT.