Very Very Troubling

Someone or some group is starting a push on ECT- Electro Convulsive Therapy for Depression.
It keeps coming up and it really scares me.

-The TV show "Royal Pains" spent a whole season on one character's depression and in the finale they convinced her to try it. (I actually went in the other room and cried during that scene.)
-My local news has done a report on how it's being used again.

Now this: Electroshock: First glimpse of how it works adds clues to depression

That study proves nothing. They have no idea what they're talking about.
Yes ECT calms the brain. Go figure- you fuckin fried the synapses.
If I send some jolts through my computer it will calm down quite a bit too.

There is a whole lot of data indicating depression is caused by immune responses.
How exactly does clamping electrodes on your skull affect that?

My working theory is those people forget to eat after treatment.
And their blood sugar goes down. And their orexin levels go up.
And then they feel better. For a while.

There is absolutely NO evidence that this procedure addresses the cause of depression, or is safe or effective over the long term.
And they are preying on the most vulnerable people.  People who think amnesia would be an improvement.  People who really don't care if they survive.

They know their shit doesn't work.  This just proves how incompetent and desperate they are.
They will literally toast our brains to get us to shut up.

One Google Search Later:
ECT alters brain glucose metabolism.
The hard way.
Fuck You Doctors.  Fuck You and your Low Fat Diets.