Electrick Shock?

Question by sanko: electrick shock?
According to a review of 61 studies of patients
suffering from severely debilitating depression, a
large majority of the patients reported that missing a
night’s sleep immediately lifted their depression. Yet
sleep-deprivation is not used to treat depression even
though the conventional treatments, which use drugs
and electric shocks, often have serious side effects

Look at this line
“Yet sleep-deprivation is not used to treat depression….”

sleep-deprivation means no sleep………..so do they mean if a person is not allowed to sleep then there will be no depression ?

i don’t understand these lines below .
“Yet
sleep-deprivation is not used to treat depression even
though the conventional treatments, which use drugs
and electric shocks, often have serious side effects”

electric shock ! can electric shock reduce depression ?
can no sleep reduce depression ?
can no sleep caused by drugs reduce depression ?

Already patients claimed no sleep caused depression.
i’m messed up

Best answer:

Answer by insane bass
I know for a fact an electric shock cannot help sleep, it kills cells and after time u will have serious side effects, however if u get shocked enough u get knowed out and this is a seriou health problem.
no sleep will increase depression because u will feel bad.
i dont know about the drugs.

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