In the deepest despair, electroconvulsive therapy offers hope

Re:In the deepest despair, electroconvulsive therapy offers ... by yellowapple on Monday March 29, 2021 @05:39PM (#26628516)

> Saying depression is a “temporary change in behavior"

That ain't how I interpreted the above comment.

> but it is also has proven efficacy

Right, but at what cost? It seems very much like something that just replaces one problem with another, at best (and at worst, introduces more problems while the existing ones don't go away).

But hey, as long as it's voluntary, who am I to judge?

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Re:In the deepest despair, electroconvulsive therapy offers ... by type0 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @06:37AM (#26633020)

> But hey, as long as it's voluntary, who am I to judge?

If we are talking about very severely depressed you can't trust them to weight the risks and benefits in their own favor, so the physicians have so big overwhelming influence on their decision that it can't be argued otherwise.

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Re:In the deepest despair, electroconvulsive therapy offers ... by yellowapple on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:48PM (#26636988)

That's kind of what I was underhandedly getting at, yeah.

And when applied to more debilitating conditions like schizophrenia, "consent" is even more wibbly-wobbly.

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