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Demystifying Electroconvulsive Therapy

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I have had ECT (electroconvulsive therapy). There. I said it. Cat is out of the bag. Now a Google search will tell everyone that knows me, as well as those that don’t, that, I have had this “crazy” procedure.

But here’s the thing, it’s not crazy. It’s lifesaving. ECT first got a bad rap in “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest,” a novel published in the 1960s by Ken Kesey and made famous in the 70s by the film with Jack Nicholson.

When my psychiatrist spoke to me about having ECT, this is all I knew. I said no right away and continued to say no for months languishing in a terrible state of depression.

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