I really enjoyed this talk by Sherwin Nuland about how he became so severely depressed due to a bad marriage that even the doctors thought nothing could be done for him. They felt the only thing left that might fix him, was a pre-fontal lobotomy and thankfully for him and for us that did not happen. If he had had a lobotomy, I doubt we would have had the chance to hear that wonderful speech he just gave. Anyhow, I was aware that electroshock convulsive shock therapy is one of the last resort treatments for depression and that it can help those that are severely depressed when nothing else would work. In fact, my husband’s grandmother received a form of it called insulin shock therapy for her depression many decades ago. Anyhow, I think it takes