Erin Allman‑Updyke

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This Podcast Will Kill You · Ep 221 Electroconvulsive Therapy Part 2: A current conversation · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

it actually looks like today at all.

So what we're gonna talk about today is what this actually looks like as a medical procedure, what the situations are that we use it for today.

And then like I said already at the end, we're gonna be joined by Dr.

Leonardo Lopez to talk about kind of the future of ECT.

So there's a lot to cover.

So just a few things on the agenda.

At the very top of last week's episode, Erin, you defined ECT for us.

Electroconvulsive therapy is basically delivering electricity to our brain.

With the goal of provoking a seizure, to treat a variety, a really kind of wider variety than you might think, of what we call affective disorders.

So those are things like treatment-resistant depression, which might mean either unipolar depression.

So that's things like major depressive disorder, or bipolar depression.

We also use it for psychotic disorders, including psychotic depression, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophrenia.

And catatonia and related disorders, which we're going to talk about in a lot more detail, and can present in both more neurologic and more kind of psychiatric conditions.

But what does it actually look like?

So if you or I were going to go get ECT, if we had a need for this procedure, this is kind of the steps that we would go through.

First, there would be a very lengthy discussion of the risks and the benefits of this procedure.

The person who's performing it would be talking with us.

They would be talking with our family or our friends and other like surrogate decision makers if needed.

There is a really robust informed consent process that has to be gone through.

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