In the fifth episode of The Deep End, volunteers describe what it’s like to live with the stigma of depression and the treatments they seek for it.

In the second episode of The Deep End, listeners hear what it’s like to live with severe depression and the backstory of an experimental treatment.

Up to 300 New Zealanders a year are administered electric shock treatment - and the vast majority are happier for it.

The brain responds by releasing chemicals that are thought to reset pathways or create new connections. Yale Medicine explains: “ECT was developed in the late 1930s by an Italian neurologist ...

“We have bombarded NICE with research showing that ECT is unsafe in terms of causing brain damage and memory loss. They have just ignored our correspondence.” Responding to the ...

long enough to produce a brain seizure lasting around one minute. Serious Risks, Few Precautions ECT is often given to consenting adults battling severe depression who have exhausted more ...

Cerletti hoped to find a way to use the brain substance from animals that ... In the late 1930s and 1940s, electroconvulsive therapy took off, its popularity caused by the same factors that ...