From Minn. NPR:
St. Paul, Minn. -- Ray Sandford has been getting electro-convulsive
treatment, also known as electroshock and ECT, since the end of May.
For Ray, the process works like this. Every week or two he is taken
to a hospital, where a medical technician attaches electrodes to his
head and delivers electrical current into his brain. The current
causes a seizure.
For reasons that doctors still don't quite understand, some patients
with severe depression or mania get better after having ECT.
But the potential benefits don't matter to Ray. He says he dreads the
shocks and wants them to stop.
"It's scary as hell," he said.
Ray is 54 years old, with a receding hairline and a salt-and-pepper
beard. He walks with a cane and his hands shake slightly, a side
effect from some of the medication he's taking, he says.
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St. Paul, Minn. -- Ray Sandford has been getting electro-convulsive
treatment, also known as electroshock and ECT, since the end of May.
For Ray, the process works like this. Every week or two he is taken
to a hospital, where a medical technician attaches electrodes to his
head and delivers electrical current into his brain. The current
causes a seizure.
For reasons that doctors still don't quite understand, some patients
with severe depression or mania get better after having ECT.
But the potential benefits don't matter to Ray. He says he dreads the
shocks and wants them to stop.
"It's scary as hell," he said.
Ray is 54 years old, with a receding hairline and a salt-and-pepper
beard. He walks with a cane and his hands shake slightly, a side
effect from some of the medication he's taking, he says.
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