16 Feb 2008, 4:39 am
16 Feb 2008, 4:43 am
sartresue wrote:
Plathology topic
Very insightful comment made by McGuinness regarding electroshock stimulation of the frontal lobes. I have never had such an experience as shock treatments. I hear they are brutal. Only once I ingested a psychedelic substance at the age of 15 in order to experience it. What I experienced was typical of schizophrenia, and very terrifying.
This might be another venue for research of information on frontal lobes, lobotomies and electroshock.
I have a hunch such therapy is brain damaging. 
I believe Plath wrote about her experience with such a therapy.
Very insightful comment made by McGuinness regarding electroshock stimulation of the frontal lobes. I have never had such an experience as shock treatments. I hear they are brutal. Only once I ingested a psychedelic substance at the age of 15 in order to experience it. What I experienced was typical of schizophrenia, and very terrifying.
This might be another venue for research of information on frontal lobes, lobotomies and electroshock.
I have a hunch such therapy is brain damaging. I believe Plath wrote about her experience with such a therapy.I think the ECT of the 50's was definately brain damaging, as were some of the other treatments described in the Bell Jar, like the insulin injections. It seems like the theory was to throw your whole system off balance, and then it would somehow magically regain equillibrium.
I've read that people who've had ECT sometimes have memory loss, which makes sense, but I really wonder if it can permanently rewire your brain. It seems like any effects on thought would be temporary, as the electricity wouldn't stay in your system, only pass through it.
16 Feb 2008, 4:45 am
16 Feb 2008, 10:37 pm
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