9 Rounds of Electroshock Therapy. 6 Years Lost. All Because Her Doctors Got It Horribly Wrong.
This is what happens when medical professionals don't believe women.
By Michele Lent Hirsch
Dec 15, 2018
She’s lying on a gurney in a white room, a blanket covering her body, an IV pinched into her arm. A nurse is sticking electrodes to the side of her head, like stickers. Soon they’ll send electric currents into her brain, inducing a seizure.
She’s aware that she’s been in this hospital before. Twenty-four years ago, she was born here.
Now she’s undergoing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a sort of last-ditch treatment for severe depression and other psychiatric issues that will attempt to shock her out of years of intractable symptoms.
https://www.prevention.com/health/a25585642/electroshock-therapy-misdiagnosis/
