ECT: shocked beyond belief.
| Autor: | Morrison L; Past Mental Health Consumer, MidCentral DHB and Registered Nurse, Community Health, Palmerston North, New Zealand. lisa@myndspy.com |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists [Australas Psychiatry] 2009 Apr; Vol. 17 (2), pp. 164-7. |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10398560802596090 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: The aim of this paper is to consider electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the 21st century and whether it should be a treatment of last resort from the perspective of someone who has received the treatment in recent years. Conclusion: It seems that informed consent, the introduction of advance directives and the improved delivery of ECT have done little to ease people's fear, with a lot of people still believing ECT to be an extreme form of treatment and only a last resort option. The idea of any treatment being considered 'last resort' in mental health care gives the impression that it is the most radical and worst treatment available - thus we leave it until last to try. Yet for many people, including myself, the treatment is a valid and preferred option with minimal side effects. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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