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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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