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Originally Posted by Kizzy
Wait, what? In which way is turning people into vegetables defensible?
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That's not what it does... it makes people a bit dazed for at most a day or so (e.g. you're not allowed to drive afterwards).
TBH I think at some point the "general public conception" of ECT got mixed up with lobotomy and they became considered the same sort of thing / to have the same effect. Even then, the effects of lobotomy (done correctly) wasn't catatonia either, that's really just the Hollywood-style dramatisation of it. Though it did sometimes make people go... a bit odd... as you would expect from deliberate brain damage.
People ending up "zombies", if it happened at all, would have been because the procedure was often done by untrained people in a non-surgical setting and so further serious braindamage sometimes happened.
...just to reiterate though; ECT and lobotomy are far from the same thing.