Re:Erase all button (Score 1)

I would like to know where you get your information. As I find most of it dubious at best! Can you please provide some citations from reputable publications? I have lived with the effects of ECT. My mother has had 5 rounds of ECT with each consisting of 4-7 treatments each. You can trust me she was not “smiling and chipper.” On the contrary she looked like a zombie. What you call “some unpredictable holes in their memories” is that majority of her life before 30 years of age and the loss of a great majority of her short term memory. I also do not agree with your comment on “modern treatment insists patients have voluntary, informed consent” that is 100% BS. As my mother was not informed of the major side effects and was ordered by her physiatrists to do it. Unfortunately at the time I was a minor and could do nothing. I now have power of attorney and hell will freeze over before this barbaric treatment is ever done on her again. She still to this day major depression, schizoaffective disorder and dysthymia. None of which were helped with ECT, however she gained a long list of side effects: heart problems, headaches (daily chronic), nausea, short term memory problems, long term memory problems, and her personality changed.