This visceral focus on ECT has almost certainly led to ever more people ending up on drugs, and ever more brain damage and memory problems as a consequence. It sometimes seems that the critics are behaving according to the romantic illusion that if they can just abolish ECT, mental illness will disappear with it.
这种对ECT的直觉关注几乎肯定会导致更多的人最终使用药物，以及由此导致的更多的大脑损害和记忆问题。有时候，ECT的批评者似乎是按照如果他们可以废除ECT，精神疾病就会随之消失这样的浪漫幻想来行为的。如果真是这样，这都已经使希格蒙德·弗洛伊德着迷了。