I'm getting shock treatments tommorow

psychoslice said:

Yes you can see them actually doing it on you-tube, well it use to be there, not a pretty sight.

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Carlita said:

I saw the brain surgery they did on me on You Tube. I was horrified. I wouldn't wish that scene on any one.

edit.... we didn't advance as much as we would have thought. Just got to say that.

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psychoslice said:

Could I ask what the name of that procedure was.

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PopeADope said:

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so, sometime between 6:00-7:00 I will have electric currents running through me (Electroconvulsive therapy) till I convulse and have a siezure. It is to treat shizoaffective disorder (Bipolar with symptoms of schitzophrenia). It's suppossed to leave me with a headache and memory loss. Please take two seconds out of your day to pray a two-second prayer for me is all I ask...if I get healed I hope to help others

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PopeADope said:

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so, sometime between 6:00-7:00 I will have electric currents running through me (Electroconvulsive therapy) till I convulse and have a siezure. It is to treat shizoaffective disorder (Bipolar with symptoms of schitzophrenia). It's suppossed to leave me with a headache and memory loss. Please take two seconds out of your day to pray a two-second prayer for me is all I ask...if I get healed I hope to help others

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Carlita said:

I hope they still have it. It's "(Right) Temporal Lobe Surgery". The post was acting funky.

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psychoslice said:

Wow, did it change your cognition in any way ?.

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The temporal lobes are involved in the primary organization of sensory input (Read, 1981). Individuals with temporal lobes lesions have difficulty placing words or pictures into categories.

Language can be affected by temporal lobe damage. Left temporal lesions disturb recognition of words. Right temporal damage can cause a loss of inhibition of talking.

The temporal lobes are highly associated with memory skills. Left temporal lesions result in impaired memory for verbal material. Right side lesions result in recall of non-verbal material, such as music and drawings.

Seizures of the temporal lobe can have dramatic effects on an individual's personality. Temporal lobe epilepsy can cause perseverative speech, paranoia and aggressive rages (Blumer and Benson, 1975). Severe damage to the temporal lobes can also alter sexual behavior (e.g. increase in activity) (Blumer and Walker, 1975).

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psychoslice said:

And did you have the surgery because of epilepsy ?

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Carlita said:

Well, before I went to surgery, I believed in no god. During my condition, I believed in some god. I had surgery, god just, well, disappeared.

Temporal lobe, I read, has something to do with our "spiritual" experiences as it affects auditory ... TBI Resource...

but seriously, I feel more a child now than I did before surgery. It messes with my memory and language recall. But it depends on the neurological condition.

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Carlita said:

@psychoslice

Here is something you'd probably thing interesting..... closest I heard a seizure explained:

Dostoyevsky, the 19th-century Russian novelist, who himself had epilepsy, gave vivid accounts of apparent temporal lobe seizures in his novel The Idiot:

“He remembered that during his epileptic fits, or rather immediately preceding them, he had always experienced a moment or two when his whole heart, and mind, and body seemed to wake up with vigor and light; when he became filled with joy and hope, and all his anxieties seemed to be swept away for ever; these moments were but presentiments, as it were, of the one final second…in which the fit came upon him. That second, of course, was inexpressible. Next moment something appeared to burst open before him: a wonderful inner light illuminated his soul. This lasted perhaps half a second, yet he distinctly remembered hearing the beginning of a wail, the strange, dreadful wail, which burst from his lips of its own accord, and which no effort of will on his part could suppress. Next moment he was absolutely unconscious; black darkness blotted out everything. He had fallen in an epileptic fit.”

Epilepsy Foundation

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psychoslice said:

Thank you for sharing that, yes frontal lob epilepsy, that is if that is what you had, does seem to have some sort of mystical experience behind it, I myself use to have epilepsy, and I had an experience in consciousness, or an experience in Enlightenment.

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Carlita said:

Well, the lobes do control mystical experiences. The right and left temporals control more sensory, language, and memory input. I'm a Right Temporal Baby but they say now my seizures spread to the front lobe as well. In big seizures, they spread across the globe.

May I ask, is the mental health condition I think you said you had was from seizures, are seizures, or totally separate?

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psychoslice said:

Well I have my seizures after I had a polio vaccine when I was about 10, I was never the same after that, and later in life I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, i don't have seizures any longer, there not very nice that's for sure.

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