I'm Still Human: Understanding Depression With Kindness (Expanded Edition - 2021)

~ Electro-convulsive Therapy (ECT) ~
“Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are. Up
above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky,” I was crying
like a baby while singing this song.
It was so lonely and scary in the psychiatric ward. All the patients
had some form of mental illness and they looked so pitiful. Some of
them were hostile due to their illness and needed to be restrained
on the bed so that they couldn’t harm themselves or others. “This is
temporary and for their own good, while waiting for the medicines
to work on them and cure them,” assured my psychiatrist.
Due to my severe depression and attempted suicide, I was advised
by my psychiatrist to go for a series of emergency and life-saving
treatment known as Electro-convulsive Therapy (ECT).
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