Electroconvulsive therapy
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Sep 11, 2026
Laura WatkinsGUEST
Here's the great news, and I celebrate this every January.
Laura WatkinsGUEST
So January of 23 was my last ECT treatment.
Laura WatkinsGUEST
I started uncovering every single rock.
Laura WatkinsGUEST
I started exercising regularly.
Laura WatkinsGUEST
Like I uncovered every single stone in trying to create a strategic self-care routine.
Laura WatkinsGUEST
So it's been three and a half.
Laura WatkinsGUEST
years since I've had an ECT treatment.
Laura WatkinsGUEST
That's one of the reasons why I'm so, so passionate about this work, because if it can happen to me, who has the support, who has the resources, who has love and friendship and all these wonderful things, if it can happen to me, it can happen to anybody.
Kerryn FeehanHOST
We used to get that.
Kerryn FeehanHOST
ECT, they call it.
Kerryn FeehanHOST
Electric shock therapy therapy.
Tim McLaughlinHOST
Which actually, there's a lot of science behind it, does kind of
Pejman AlaghamandanHOST
When you went to that treatment at Johns Hopkins, what did they do for you that helped you overcome the depression?
Sam FungerGUEST
So the ECT, the electroconvulsive therapy, is a pretty well-studied treatment modality for, as I mentioned, like last resort suicidal depression because it is very invasive therapy.
Sam FungerGUEST
And damage can be done inadvertently.
Sam FungerGUEST
So it involves, I was put under with propofol every other day for a while, a month maybe.
Josh McConkieGUEST
And I, you know, there, there's no fast rule on that, and, and that's what makes it so scary at times.
Josh McConkieGUEST
And, uh, literally, while I was in Australia, I had a very close, uh, personal and family friend that I had known for almost 30 years, and they had their third baby, and she had some very deep depression, and then was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and was having some brief psychotic episodes that were so severe that she was actually undergoing, uh, electroconvulsive shock therapy, like ECT therapy.
Xanthe WestonHOST
Wow.
Tim Watson-MunroHOST
Boy.
Nat StrawnHOST
So they also did insulin and electroshock therapy wards.
Nat StrawnHOST
Historian Sally Ling also documents Chattahoochee's history of ECT and lobotomies.
Nat StrawnHOST
Now, Apparently, ECT is good.
Nat StrawnHOST
I guess modern...
Nat StrawnHOST
What is that? This is what Google said.
Nat StrawnHOST
They put you under anesthesia.
Nat StrawnHOST
Here's what Wikipedia said.
Nat StrawnHOST
Modern ECT performed under anesthesia is a legitimate medical treatment that can be extremely effective for certain severe psychiatric conditions.
Stephen Paul EdwardsGUEST
So anyway, then they gave me...
Stephen Paul EdwardsGUEST
ECT, electrical convulsive therapy, right? Which if you haven't tried it, you definitely should because it's quite an experience.
Stephen Paul EdwardsGUEST
But anyway, they burn, I'm joking, right? It's about, they put like thousands of volts of electricity through your head to make you convulse, which is why it's called convulsive therapy.
Stephen Paul EdwardsGUEST
Somebody in there, somebody decided that was a good idea.
Kenneth SpielvogelGUEST
I'd rather be, I'd rather, I'd rather be in perpetual hell than have to think about that.
Kenneth SpielvogelGUEST
I'm surprised she didn't have the ECT.
Kenneth SpielvogelGUEST
I really am.
Kenneth SpielvogelGUEST
What's an ECT? Uh, electroconvulsive therapy.
Kenneth SpielvogelGUEST
I mean, it's very effective in many situations of severe depression, even with psychotic features.
Kenneth SpielvogelGUEST
How do you know she didn't have it? I don't, I didn't see in her list of treatment that she had had ECT.
Blair SteeleGUEST
I don't, I don't know if it's chatter.
Blair SteeleGUEST
It'd have to be fact-checked.
Leonardo LopezGUEST
She required total care from her family and from the nursing staff.
Leonardo LopezGUEST
And so at that time, the team at the hospital where she was a patient at the time started discussing the possibility of treating her with ECT.
Leonardo LopezGUEST
ECT is a gold standard treatment for catatonia, has very high response rates across all causes of catatonia, both psychiatric and medical.
Leonardo LopezGUEST
However, it is not typical to treat ECT in patients so young, in part because it's not typical to see catatonia in patients so young.
Leonardo LopezGUEST
Or anyway, it has not been recognized in patients so young historically.
Leonardo LopezGUEST
It's almost certainly been under-recognized.
Leonardo LopezGUEST
So it would have been unusual to treat a patient this age with ECT.
Leonardo LopezGUEST
But they had sort of run out of options.
Eric BergGUEST
Well, at least they got rid of lobotomies, but that took me a lot of work.
Eric BergGUEST
But that, uh, ECT, electric shock therapy for children, they're still doing it.
Eric BergGUEST
Still doing it.
Eric BergGUEST
Medicare, Medicaid paid for it.
Mitchell SalazarHOST
And, yeah, I think the fact that you touched on the carbon right there, that's something that we might see by a lot of surfers.
Mitchell SalazarHOST
The ECT from the Challen Island Surfboards team, I think that's something that you're probably going to see by the likes of Bella Kenworthy, maybe even George Pitar riding right there.
Mitchell SalazarHOST
I know Parisa Hennessy has been a fan of those in the past too, depending, you know, on the wave type.
Mitchell SalazarHOST
But Lowers is definitely the place where you are able to play around a little bit more.
15 MINS LATER
Dave ProdanHOST
And even if you look just one above Barron's, Felipe Toledo, he's about, what, 445 points ahead of Barron, but he's also maybe the best lower trestle surfer in the history of the human species.
Dave ProdanHOST
So he's got that going for him, which is a good thing to have going for you.
Dave ProdanHOST
Man, like one thing I wanted to bring up when you're talking about different equipment that we might see people on, he has been riding that PU ECT board, the one with the white deck and then the ECT bottom.
Dave ProdanHOST
I think he had it in El Salvador.
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