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Shocking 2: Into the Void
This post is part 2 of a 4-piece series about ECT. Here are links to the other three parts: Shocking 1: Waking Up, Shocking 3: On Wheels, Shocking 4: Blast Past. Just as waking up from anesthesia is a...
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Shocking 3: On Wheels
This post is part 3 of a 4-piece series about ECT. Here are links to the other three parts: Shocking 1: Waking Up, Shocking 2: Into the Void, Shocking 4: Blast Past. The hospital where I got most of my...
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Shocking 4: Blast Past
This post is part 4 of a 4-piece series about ECT. Here are links to the other three parts: Shocking 1: Waking Up, Shocking 2: Into the Void, Shocking 3: On Wheels. Some eight or nine years ago, my...
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The Landmark Effect
Our daily environment is full of places and objects that can evoke ghosts. Not real ghosts of course, but more a kind of vivid reminders of the past. Many of us have at one time or another visited some...
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Caring for an ECT Patient
Someone wanted to know what people can do to care for a family member who is getting ECT treatment (electroconvulsive therapy, electroshocks). Here is a list of things that I think may be important....
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Steampunk Psychiatry
Sometimes, the narrow outlook of what I’ll call “brain-focused psychiatry” exasperates me. Is depression just a matter of a few loose wires in the computer within our head? Do our feelings really got...
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Q&A: ECT
I’ve decided to open a new category: Q&A (Questions and Answers). Here I will try to answer some of your questions, as brief as possible. Question that was asked yesterday about electroshock...
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New: iPad Shocking App!
Since its introduction a year ago, the StayOnTop Mobile Electro-Shock Device has quickly become a tremendous success. Even our most optimistic business plan had not predicted that the “Mobishock” (as...
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Dissecting an Emily Autumn Song
This portrait here is not Emily Autumn, who is filling the rest of this post. First, here is my daughter Sophie (portrayed by my friend Frans-the-painter). She is a nearly-graduated expert on...
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50 Years Ago
Please don’t worry. This is not going to be some kind of dumb rant against pills or the pharmaceutical industry. I just want to show you how what was considered normal in psychiatric health care 50...
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