Wonderland - Jags

might employ in a asylum-based
horror game. Nothing written
here should be taken as actual fact
concerning psychiatric techniques
(although some of the more
terrifying elements are taken
straight from reality).
Electroshock Therapy
(ECT)
Also called Electro Convulsive
Therapy, the practice was began
in the 1930s (Italian neurologist
Ugo Cerletti saw electricity
being used to render pigs
unconsciousness) and was then
migrated to psychological usage.
Physician’s Notes
Supervising
Physician
Lynn Johnson MD
Patient Kerry Walters
Date 6/01/04
Time 1:32
Ward A
The subject is placed on a bed,
restrained, and electrodes are
placed on the head using a gel or
saline solution (to prevent burns). Up to .9 Amps and 450 volts are then
administered, slamming the subject into a bilateral grand mal seizure.
This is accompanied by violent convulsions and amnesia of the seizure
itself and the time just before it. Before the age of muscle relaxants,
subjects would fracture their bones and grind their teeth severely enough
to cause damage.
For a time after the seizure (about 20 seconds) the brain activity is
flatlined. According to some, the subject is effectively brain-dead.
Today a group of muscle relaxants and a psychotropic drug called
sorinofilril is used which has two results: it prevents the patient from
damaging themselves in convulsions and causes the subject to maintain a
“subjective-time imprint” of the seizure.
There is reported therapeutic value in ECT with depression and (with the
new drugs) schizophrenia. Allegations of long-term damage have never
been proven.
Insulin Shock
The use of Insulin shock (wherein the blood sugar of the subject is
lowered so much that they go into a hypoglycemic coma) was discovered
after some observations that schizophrenics recovering from such shock
(occurring for non-therapeutic reasons) seemed much improved. The
subject is prevented from eating for a day and is (usually) placed in
restraints and then massive amounts of insulin are administered.
After a period of testing to make sure the patient is truly out (this
Subject was brought in in restraints and shown the tools
and given an explanation. She has an acute phobia concerning
injury to the eye and was extremely responsive to the
demonstration using props and a transorbital blade. Although
we can‛t be that neanderthal in the operating theater, I think
that keeping her awake during the cranial surgery will be a
highly therapeutic experience for her. I know I‛m looking
forward to it.
--Lynn
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