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• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  um. yeah. they do that after regular surgery too. a shitton of sedatives will do that. ect is somewhat associated with temporary memory loss but it wears off just as quick as with a regular seizure.

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  • SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    After being in an ICU for a busy night and being in the same room while another person didn’t make it, I am DNR on like everything. You shouldn’t need to do that to my body for me to be alive.

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  • PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you’re willing to share, I would be interested in hearing your reasoning for a DNR if it’s outside of the typical cases (terminal, elderly, etc.). I don’t know a ton about what all they do to resuscitate beyond CPR/AED (when necessary) and possibly general life support measures

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Honestly it’s not even the CPR that particularly bothers me, it’s the intubation and the stuff after. I’ve worked with so many patients who don’t have a lot of working neural tissue left and their family just has them medically tortured for years because they want to see them blink occasionally. Next time I update my documents I think I’m going to add that if my family wants something to happen to me that I have to be held down for, they have to be in the room. If they can’t stand to watch / listen to me while it happens, they’ve no right signing off on it.

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      • PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Gotcha, that makes sense. It’s always baffling to me how we often treat animals with more dignity than people when it comes to end of life care.

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• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A hard reboot will do that to ya.

  What kind of conditions is electro therapy used to treat?

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  • SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Treatment resistant chronic depression.

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  • PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not the original commenter, but my understanding is that it’s used for severe depression when other treatments have been unsuccessful, so sort of a last resort. And apparently it’s fairly effective iirc, especially when compared to other treatment options (e.g., antidepressants).

    I’m curious as to whether having a seizure disorder would correlate with lower depression rates, or if electroshock-induced seizures may lead to higher chances of having non-induced seizures in the future.

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      there is actually a huuuge overlap between anticonvulsants / antiseizure medications and anti-manic agents (mania being the opposite of depression).

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