Don't call electroconvulsive therapy 'shock therapy

Despite its portrayal in the media, electroconvulsive therapy isn't medically or clinically controversial. Calling it that risks people's mental health and even their lives.

When nothing could cure my depression, shock therapy saved my life

Shock therapy' isn't as scary as its name—or the movies—suggest

Researchers Find Lack of Evidence, Call for Halt to ECT

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), College of Medicine

Shock Treatment: The Truth Behind Electroshock Therapy

Electroconvulsive therapy on the rise again in England, Mental health

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT): How It Saved My Life But Destroyed My Memory

In COVID's early days, Twin Cities doctors collaborated to keep offering 'life-saving' ECT

Electroconvulsive therapy: its dark past and hopeful future as a treatment for depression - Vox

Shock therapy to make a comeback as evidence grows that it works

Electroconvulsive therapy is overrated but not 'hell', Depression