Just in case you don't get an answer: ECT is in fact a standard medical/psychiatric treatment for certain types of psychiatric illnesses. It gets a bad rep bec

Just in case you don't get an answer: ECT is in fact a standard medical/psychiatric treatment for certain types of psychiatric illnesses. It gets a bad rep because of the existence of involuntary treatments. That doesn't mean that there are people that consent to it, because it can be highly beneficial to specific types of psychiatric illnesses. As far as I've understood from a doctor friend that explained it to me, the patient is fully under narcosis and paralysed (otherwise the muscles will do all sorts of dangerous things), so they don't notice a thing, apart from probably waking up with a sore arm. This is because (I've been told) they leave one arm not paralysed for feedback and monitoring the process. See Wikipedia for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy