can shock therapy help depression
Unresponsive chronic depression is a common condition. In some cases, conventional medications for treating chronic depression may not be effective with certain people. Luckily, electric shock therapy has shown to benefit the treatment of chronic depression. slide 1 of 7. Recently, electric shock therapy (EST) has shown to benefit unresponsive chronic depression when other variations of depression treatment have been unsuccessful, such as antidepressant medications.