How the Jaft Stole Phunkeh - Presents and Love

[Kufasir]

Already up to 100 pages. Good show.  

[Sanzoskitsune]

yay Tae love! *huggle cling loves on*  

[Kerrigan_dragon]

*huggles Sanzo* heart Love to go around. biggrin

Tae: In psychiatric wards, it was observed that sometimes patients with epilepsy, when they had several seizures, would get better. This was a while back, when people were first trying to actually help crazy people instead of just locking them up and hoping they would go away and die. razz So they theorized that if epileptics would get better by having a seizure, why not the other people? So they started administering ECT to all the patients in psychiatric wards, it was mandatory. And a small percentage, very very small, got better. Like, completely better. But they didn't realize at the time that they didn't need to use so many treatments to cure the people (they used hundreds, when only like 6 are needed) and it caused brain damage after a while. Also, they used electrodes on both sides of the brain, which caused even more damage, and the people were conscious at the beginning, which caused them to become traumatized. So after a time, they discovered that the only people being helped were those with depression. And over time the technique got refined. They put the people to sleep and hook them up to a breathing machine, so there's no chance of them dying from lack of oxygen. They only use the treatment on one side of the brain, at a less dangerous voltage, for shorter, and only a few treatments, and the treatments are more spaced out. The reason they still have that treatment is because it works so dramatically well. Patients who are so depressed they won't even get up to use the washroom will have a full 180 turn and be happy and laughing and working again in almost no time. It's amazing.

/huge rant  

[Jafthasleftthebuilding]

TL;DR.

@_@  

[Sanzoskitsune]

O_O I am amazed by your knowledge Kerri, bow down to the knowledgeable  

[Kerrigan_dragon]

Sanzo: Heh. sweatdrop Thanks..? That totally sounds like I'm endorsing it though. razz I do think that shocking people is a grotesque concept. But it works so well.. D:  

[Taeryyn]

Kerrigan_dragon

*huggles Sanzo* heart Love to go around. biggrin

Tae: In psychiatric wards, it was observed that sometimes patients with epilepsy, when they had several seizures, would get better. This was a while back, when people were first trying to actually help crazy people instead of just locking them up and hoping they would go away and die. razz So they theorized that if epileptics would get better by having a seizure, why not the other people? So they started administering ECT to all the patients in psychiatric wards, it was mandatory. And a small percentage, very very small, got better. Like, completely better. But they didn't realize at the time that they didn't need to use so many treatments to cure the people (they used hundreds, when only like 6 are needed) and it caused brain damage after a while. Also, they used electrodes on both sides of the brain, which caused even more damage, and the people were conscious at the beginning, which caused them to become traumatized. So after a time, they discovered that the only people being helped were those with depression. And over time the technique got refined. They put the people to sleep and hook them up to a breathing machine, so there's no chance of them dying from lack of oxygen. They only use the treatment on one side of the brain, at a less dangerous voltage, for shorter, and only a few treatments, and the treatments are more spaced out. The reason they still have that treatment is because it works so dramatically well. Patients who are so depressed they won't even get up to use the washroom will have a full 180 turn and be happy and laughing and working again in almost no time. It's amazing.

/huge rant

I've had plenty of seizures, and they don't affect me, for better or for worse. : D I'm happy that other people's spaz attacks help them feel better, but for myself personally, they have no bearing on my moods. (I usually feel like I've been hit by a truck after a seizure, which isn't exactly fun.)

I am really relieved to hear about people having good experiences with ECT, and I'm glad that it can cause such a dramatic change in their life. Because honestly, the only people I've ever met who've been subjected to it had horrible experiences. There's a good reason it's a last-resort sort of thing.  

[Red Glacier]

Sanzoskitsune

O_O I am amazed by your knowledge Kerri, bow down to the knowledgeable

To think she is dating me XD  

[Sanzoskitsune]

Well its good to have the information anyway Kerri  

[Red Glacier]

For the Jaft :3  

[Sanzoskitsune]

gonk that is a scary Santa! that's the on that stalks everyone!!  

[Kerrigan_dragon]

Tae: Severe severe depression is what was cured by epileptics having seizures. Not a bad mood or anything. They don't know why They're still working on refining the process, and until fairly recently psychiatric wards were still kinda evil torturous places. razz So it's getting better, but bad experiences were all too common, and still are. But at least it's getting better. smile

Sanzo: The More You Know... biggrin

Viral: o.o I cry now. crying  

[Red Glacier]

Sanzoskitsune

gonk that is a scary Santa! that's the on that stalks everyone!!

Alll shall cry havoc in the replacement of my lack of intelligence >.> twisted  

[Sanzoskitsune]

.....I'm hungry...

*eats the first person she see's (i.e. the person who posts right after this)*  

[Kerrigan_dragon]

Eats the first person you see's. You see is what? o.o