Here is a question I have..Is it okay to have strong opinions and to judge something as wrong.. This is not something I know I sometimes can do.. but it seems to be lately important to me to be open towards other views. I have been forced to look at this after listening to a program on Electo Convulsive Therapy yesterday that aired on the radio in which some people claimed it had been effective for them.. As many of my readers know a few months back my sister was given ECT for the third time without her complete consent.. At the time it was not entirely clear what was happening and when I found out, I freaked out to be honest. As I shared in a blog around then thought before getting too caught up in my reaction (which I am sure now was all due to fear), inside I heard a voice that said not to react and to respect her choice (even though she was not really happy about it) and to see it as for both our our growth.. My gut instinct and it was pretty primal really is that it was a kind of abuse of her as she was not really always being responded to well by those around her but since her depression was very entrenched at that point and the pharmaceutical approach seemed to be failing it was recommended.
After listening to the program I am really questioning whether my thoughts about it are (if not totally wrong) not entirely on base.. I just wanted to write a short blog about it as I was so publically anti ECT in posts around that time, the whole thought of her being anaethetised and wheeled in and out just made me feel so utterly sad and helpless so maybe my upset was just one of those very human reactions of someone who saw things happening she could not control, nor like or trust..
There is a saying in the fellowship of AA to Keep An Open Mind, doing this can guard against us becoming dogmatic on any issue. For myself while I did see my sister being reduced at the time maybe the ECT has helped on some level I just do not know.. but i was interested that there is a research project being done at the moment on the various reactions to the treatment.If you would like to listen to the program that aired here in Australia yesterday on Radio National the link is below and it provides some info about the study being conducted by an ECT survivor:
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/electricity-and-the-brain/12453120
Emerging From The Dark Night 
Interesting mate
I say always listen to gut check
There is nothing wrong with question validity and questioning foundation in which information has been reciprocated from the place of origin.” Primal R.e.p.r
There’s big difference from knowing your ground to be concrete evidentiary correspondence and that of Kool-aid sediments
I am not afraid not care if fact and logic obliterates their delusional idealism
Slainte
Alex
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Okay care to elaborate on delusional idealism?
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Sure what I am referring to if Truth stings their mirage bubble escaping the grasp of reality then so be it
Yes they will hate and resent you for injecting venom into their story but as they say ” the truth will set you free one a way or another.
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Finding our own truth is what I think may help more than shock treatment.. but there is a difference between soul healing and just getting someone to function again in an insane system
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