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So what is it actually like? You go in, have your blood pressure taken, sign a form, lie down, go to sleep, wake up with a slight headache and go home. And often, you feel instantly better.
Lucy Tallon about ECT in "What is having ECT like?"

[ECT] recalls connotations of torture and I guess brain injury. But in all the cases that we’ve treated, we’ve never seen it.

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