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When family psychiatric history haunts current ECT decisions

My ECT treatments are scheduled but I keep having dreams about my grandmother who had shock therapy in the 1960s and begged us never to let that happen to her again.

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Generational trauma around psychiatric treatment creates ghosts that speak louder than current medical evidence.

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