Treatment method medically induced coma (by doctors) (not a good idea seemingly??)

[noname223]

I thought about this treatment method in the past. In a book which I have read a patient of a mental health hospital asks for medically induced coma. Jordan Peterson flow to Russia for this experimental treatment. The Russian doctors induced a medically coma for some days in order to help Jordan with the detox of benzodiazepines. He had horrible withdrawal symptoms.

After my both psychosis I had 6-12 months very extreme psychosomatic pain. I also had the wish for a medically induced coma. I told noone about it because this treatment method is probably not working/insane. The mortality rate seems to be high (I just read that in the article) I would not mind that....

I think there are several problems with it. An induced coma can cause depression and other mental problems I think. Moreover I had this pain for almost a year I think being one year in a coma damages your body a lot.

But it would be really cool if this could be easily done. I am bipolar with repeating depressive episodes. Just inducing a coma during the depressive episodes sounds attractive. But considering this seriously is probably absolutely nonsense and I know that. I think it also was not helpful for Jordan Peterson.
It is a pity this is not working.

I explicitly don't recommend this treatment method. As I said it would probably cause severe damage. It was just a naive thought which I had during a severe depressive episode. I am not an expert and I don't know anything about this method. There are probably god reasons why this method is not used. I would recommend to talk with professionals about such treatment methods instead of listening to a random uninformed person like me.

Have you ever thought about a medical induced coma by a doctor? Someone in my family had something like that (due to somatic reasons). The person developed major depression afterwards.

 

[lili]

I've had a medically induced coma, but not for those purposes. For me time went by in a blink of an eye.

It would be nice to go through these through very intense moments that there is no escape from. Just get a medically induced coma until it's all over and you never had to deal with it. I could use a medically induced coma right now and just skip to late summer and let other people make decisions for me.

 

[houseofleaves]

Erm… Dude… This treatment is super controversial and was used as punishment. I'm not a doctor, i just advise you to think this through.

 

[noname223]

Erm… Dude… This treatment is super controversial and was used as punishment. I'm not a doctor, i just advise you to think this through.

It was just a naive thought I had during a major depressive epsiode. I have made a disclaimer that this method is probably not a good idea. But at first when I had thought about it it sounded attractive.

I am not an expert. It will have good reasons why it is not used. I just read something positive about it. It is probably better to talk with a professional about it than listen to any random report on the internet.

Could you elaborate why it was a punishment? Isn't the person unconscious?

 

[houseofleaves]

Could you elaborate why it was a punishment? Isn't the person unconscious?

1. it's painful
2. it kills your mind

Once a man named Yuri Vetokhin tried to escape USSR. He was caught and put into a psych ward. After everything that happened to him there he wrote this:

«Insulin, that is introduced into the body of a hungry person (in the morning we were not allowed to eat), destroys the sugar reserves accumulated in the body, and the brain is left without food. The person loses consciousness and slowly dies. We were forced to die daily from 8 am to 12 noon. What irreversible organic changes took place in the body during this process, what parts and what functions of the brain were perishing irretrievably — no one knows. No one has yet told what a person feels under insulin shock and why he screams…»

 

[Depressed Cat]

I don't believe in this kind of "treatment" for mental illnesses at all!

I know civilised doctors do put patients in a medically induced coma for unavoidable reasons, but this kind of thing for mental illnesses is just insane.

Instead, I would advocate for bringing back barbiturate pills as a sleeping aid instead of the benzodiazepines currently in use.

Barbiturates are much better sleeping aids than benzodiazepines, and they also give people like us an easy access to a peaceful pill to CTB.

People had it so good just a few decades ago. They could use barbiturates as sleeping pills, and could CTB by simply overdosing on them. Nothing is simpler or more peaceful than overdosing on barbiturate pills. Then, the vicious anti-choice horde struck, and ruined it for all of us, by replacing barbs with pathetic benzos.