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Electroconvulsive Therapy
Once you understand the metabolic theory of mental illness, it's kind of like, well, how would they not? Like, of course they're helpful. And in the same way that we shock the heart with electricity when it is failing metabolically, so metabolic failure of the heart means your heart stops. We apply electricity to bring it back to life. That is what electroconvulsive therapy is doing. But this theory offers entirely, kind of an entire universe, new world of other treatment strategies that hopefully people can try before they need them.