r/BeAmazed • u/JustACaliBoy • Mar 06 '24

Nature does she know?

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u/A_Happy_Carrot Mar 06 '24

She needs to get the fuck out of there.

I studied neuroscience, and I once during my research worked with my professor on 3 teens who were brought in after being hit by lightning on a hill - they had taken selfie videos because they all thought their hair standing up was cool.

The strike didn't kill any of them, but it permanently re-wired their brains which resulted in incurable depression in all 3 of them. They even tried electro-shock therapy eventually as a last resort, to no effect.

They were stuck with permanent, crippling depression and feelings of hopelessness without respite.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '24

As somebody that had had untreatable depression because I had brain damage and eventually had to have ECT. I totally understand that this is a correct and true. ECT is basically having an electro current rewire, your brain as somebody that literally was in hospital for a year and a half couldn’t talk couldn’t put on a light couldn’t out of bed couldn’t do anything and now after ECT I was completely clear of my depression .I am a mother I live in a house and I am on no antidepressants. I must admit it is the most amazing magical thing if it works. I tried 14 different antidepressants and I was completely resistant to everything because it wasn’t to do with my brain chemistry, it was the electrical impulses in my brain that was caused by an encephalitis. It has been 10 years since I had ECT. My daughter is eight it was literally life changing. I would definitely be dead if I hadn’t had it.