Electric shock treatment for depression

Electric shock treatment for depression is called in different ways, such as the electric convulsive therapy or, as an abbreviated term, the ECT treatment. This last term is a little bit confusing because the procedure is not exactly a therapy. The electric shock treatment for depression procedure is leading to brain injuries, memory loss and an intelligence decreasing. In a New England Journal of Medicine article, in 1993, it is declared that the electric shock treatment for depression is normally used for some special psychiatric maladies, such as the major or very severe depressive disease forms. It is estimated that a number of 30.000 to 50.000 Americans experience an electric shock treatment for depression every year. More recent estimations, show that these special occurrences have been increased and the number is somewhere up to 10.000 cases.

Depression electric shock treatment effects

This new electric shock treatment for depression has some therapeutic effects which heal some unknown biological abnormalities but there is no valid proof to sustain this argument. Specialists say that the depressive treatment that we are talking about does not help the patients get rid of the profound sadness they have. More to that, they end up losing their memory and have severe mental disorientation. Unfortunately, this is the truth, even though, this electric shock treatment for depression is recognized as a therapy only for the fact that it should heal the depressive states or at least to ameliorate them, and at the end, having the individual feeling more recovered and relaxed.