e everyday, some of these people have suicidal urges and need help desperately. They could take antidepressant drugs, but these become addictive and have sides effects such as nausea, vomiting, digestive problems, drowsiness, damage to hearing and sight, also it could lead to stronger depression. These anti-depressant drugs are only temporary relief. These medications can also have long term damages too, but only five percent of users reported this (Jack Mendelson, MD p.25). Schizophrenic victims, contrary to popular belief, are highly intelligent, but tend to see life as a collage of disassociated and often frightening impressions. These people also have trouble coping with the outside world, and are usually locked away in hospitals for life on strong prescription of medications. These do not solve their problems, whereas electroshock therapy can solve their problems for life with side-effects lasting only six months at the most amount of time. ECT can solve both these clinical conditions permanently, but there are still those in society that look down upon ECT because of past rumors, and their lack of up-to-date knowledge of this subject. Doctors seem to use ECT as a last resort after contaminating patients bodies with drugs.Electroshock therapy is not only a good idea, but in some cases a necessity. For example if there is a person going through manic-depression this can be a very helpful cure. Especially if this person may have suicidal tendencies. "It also helps many individuals who can not tolerate the standard medications prescribed for mental illness. (Dabiri USA Today). A lot of medications used for depression and schizophrenia such as prozac have terrible side effects and are being considered to be taken off the pharmaceutical market. Prozac was first used in the 1930s in Italy and is still used, while temporary drugs(prozac, ritalin) will eventually reach a downfall. The trend of depression has risen grea...
