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Old 01-04-2008, 03:20 PM   #1
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It's the only thing I have seen in the treatment of mentally ill patients that wowed me, in terms of its rapid beneficial effects.

Yet, it is also the most stigmatized and feared.
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Old 01-04-2008, 03:35 PM   #2
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So is it acceptable to use at Guantanamo?
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Why not? it isnt torture because the prisoners arent really going to die. They are just scared and in a little pain.
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So is it acceptable to use at Guantanamo?
It is never acceptable to use it on a person who is not in the position to consent to it.
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Old 01-04-2008, 03:49 PM   #5
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Reminds me of one of my favorite Phil Hendrie bits ever. Reverend Vernon Dozier of Straight Arrow Ministries fixes a gay man through electric shock therapy by hooking up jumper cables from a car battery of a Honda civic to his testicles.

"I like the uh wo wo woman's boobs and uh uh her her legs and uh uh her ass. ZZZZZZZZZ.....OHHHHH OWWWWW. WHAT DID I DO?

You said ass."


I found a bittorrent with it by googling

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It is never acceptable to use it on a person who is not in the position to consent to it.
Actually, I have to hedge that a bit. There are legal ways that it can be done, appropriately, using other safeguards (power of medical attorney, I believe).

Sometimes, psychotically depressed folks can't consent to anything.
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Are brainwashed militant islamists capable of consent?
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My mother-in-law had it done last year as she was suffering from all sorts of problems including the belief that she was sick when she really wasn't (I forgot the name of that).

Anyway, it worked very well, she completely forgot the prior 2-3 months, including the time when my wife went to visit her and other things. I wish I would have known about this after the 03 and 04 seasons.
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I don't get it, I would assume that the eletric shock does something to the synapsis in your brain, but aren't mental disorders usually more related to a chemical imbalance? I guess unless it jolts the brain cells and destroys the reuptake things...that seems sort of unlikely though.
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My mother-in-law had it done last year as she was suffering from all sorts of problems including the belief that she was sick when she really wasn't (I forgot the name of that).

Anyway, it worked very well, she completely forgot the prior 2-3 months, including the time when my wife went to visit her and other things. I wish I would have known about this after the 03 and 04 seasons.
I would like to use this procedure to forget the 1996 football season.
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