So what is it actually like? You go in, have your blood pressure taken, sign a form, lie down, go to sleep, wake up with a slight headache and go home. And often, you feel instantly better.
—Lucy Tallon about ECT in "What is having ECT like?"
[ECT] recalls connotations of torture and I guess brain injury. But in all the cases that we’ve treated, we’ve never seen it.
—Dirk Dhossche, M.D. in "How ‘shock therapy’ is saving some children with autism"