Electroconvulsive therapy is often misunderstood—but it’s a safe, highly effective treatment for severe depression. Learn how ECT works, who it can help, and how experts support patients every step of ...

Dolores Orrico watched her psychiatrist flip a switch and turn a knob. She stared hard as adjustments were made to the machine that’d soon send her into a seizure. She was lying in a bed on the second ...