NY Times Article on Canadian Study of Medical Safety of ECT
From the New York Times, September 21, 2021: The link to the article is: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/well/ect-therapy-depression.html And from the "Comments": ECT literally saved my Mother's life. She had stopped eating, was extremely paranoid, angry and slowly starving herself to death. I will be eternally grateful to her hospitalist who suggested that we try this treatment. While we were hesitant to prolong her suffering, the knowledge that our grandmother, her own mother had ECT more than 50 years ago and brought her back from the brink gave us the courage to try it. The results of my Mom's treatment was extraordinary--we were told it may take 5-6 treatments before she had interest in eating but after 1-2 treatments she was sending my sister out for Japanese noodles. After the completion of 12 treatments, she had totally returned to herself. She has no memory of those weeks in the hospital, which given the grave circumstances is a blessing. I am
